About
John Hanke is the founder of Niantic and now CEO of Niantic Spatial. He co-founded Keyhole, the geospatial startup acquired by Google in 2004 that became Google Earth and Maps, then spun out Niantic from Google in 2015 and released Pokemon Go in 2016. He holds a bachelor's from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.