Brian P. McAndrews, MBA '84
Managing Director
Madrona Venture Group
Brian McAndrews joined Madrona as a managing director in 2009 and currently serves on the boards of Searchandise and AdReady.
Prior to joining Madrona, Mr. McAndrews was senior vice president at Microsoft Corporation, leading the Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) Group from August 2007 through December 2008. He successfully integrated aQuantive, Microsoft’s largest acquisition ever, into the company to help create APS.
He served as CEO of aQuantive Inc., one of the fastest-growing global digital marketing companies in the world, from 1999 to 2007. In August 2007, Microsoft acquired aQuantive for $6 billion. At the time of the acquisition, aQuantive included three distinct business units: Razorfish, Atlas, and DRIVEpm. aQuantive had 50 offices in over 20 countries.
Prior to aQuantive, Mr. McAndrews worked for ABC Inc., a broadcasting and communications company, holding executive positions at ABC Sports, ABC Entertainment and ABC Television Network, and served as a product manager for General Mills Inc., a leading consumer products manufacturer.
Mr. McAndrews was named Advertising Age’s first-ever Digital Executive of the Year and was designated as one of the 30 most influential executives in the advertising, marketing and media world in Adweek’s 30th anniversary issue. For the latter, Mr. McAndrews joined Oprah Winfrey, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell and Rupert Murdoch among others being honored as a person whose work reshaped the business and whose vision will be felt broadly across these industries for years to come.
He serves on the board of directors for Clearwire; Fisher Communications Inc., a media company based in Seattle; WhitePages Inc.; and United Way King County.
Mr. McAndrews earned an AB in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.