Rick Klau, previously product manager at US-based video website YouTube and an ex-Google executive, has joined the US-based technology company’s corporate venturing unit Google Ventures to run its Startup University.
Klau’s joining Google Ventures was first reported by news provider TechCrunch on Tuesday, which said the Startup University would expand and would take a building outside of the main Google headquarters.
Klau ran the campaign blog for Barack Obama in his 2004 Senate race, and ran product strategy for and managed Google’s presence at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, according to his profile at Google Ventures.
Klau worked at US-based internet service FeedBurner, where he ran the publisher services team, before it was acquired by Google in 2007.