John Lyman
Partner at GV
John is a partner at GV. Prior to GV he held a variety of business development, partnerships, and marketing roles at Google, where he worked primarily with early stage products and teams.
Most recently he managed the partnerships and marketing teams for Google for Entrepreneurs, which leads the company’s outreach to startups. In that role he oversaw Google’s work with technology accelerators and incubators, and created Google’s first demo day.
Before joining Google, John helped launch and was an early employee at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), which convenes world leaders to solve pressing global challenges, and the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive think tank in Washington D.C.
John graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in government and has a master’s in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.