Michael Jones is the Chief Technology Officer of Google Earth, which provides distributed geospatial visualization to users worldwide. He is an accomplished technical presenter, an inventor with eleven issued US patents, a director on private company boards, and an advisor to several Silicon Valley projects. He was formerly President & CEO of Intrinsic Graphics, Director of Advanced Graphics Software at Silicon Graphics responsible for OpenGL, Performer and all other graphics APIs, co-founder of a movie colouring company, and a computer graphics consultant during the 1980s. He has been a computer programmer since the fourth grade. Michael is a supporter of, advocate for, and photographer in the Gigapxl Project with the ambition to preserve all 788 UNESCO World Heritage Sites using the unique visual capabilities of the Gigapxl cameras.