Chikai Ohazama

Chikai Ohazama

Chikai Ohazama is the product manager of Google Earth. He has been with the product since it's inception at Keyhole, where he was co-founder and Director of Operations. He has continued his role at Google, running the data and server production group that delivers the global high-resolution imagery database to millions of people everyday, and now also oversees the client as well as other components of the product. He received his BE at Vanderbilt University and Ph.D. from Duke University both in Biomedical Engineering. After graduate school, he went on to join Silicon Graphics in 1998 and then left to start Keyhole in 2000.