Alan Eustace

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Alan Eustace (2008)

Robert Alan Eustace (* 1956 or 1957) is an American manager. Until 2015 he was Senior Vice President at Google Inc.

Life and education

Eustace received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida in 1979 . After 15 years at Digital Equipment Corporation , Compaq and Hewlett-Packard's Western Research Laboratory, he moved to Google in 2002.

Stratospheric jump

On October 24, 2014, at the age of 57, he made a stratospheric jump from a height of 41,419 meters with a parachute , breaking the height record set by Austrian extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner two years earlier for the Red Bull Stratos project . At 1,323 km / h he was the second person to break the sound barrier in free fall, but was a little slower than Baumgartner at 1,357.6 km / h. He had been working on this “StratEx” project with a small team since 2011 - without any support from Google. For the ascent, he hung directly on the balloon without a capsule in a spacesuit.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Alan Eustace and the Paragon StratEx Team.
  2. ↑ Management team. Google, accessed October 24, 2014 : "Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Knowledge"
  3. ↑ America's Best Colleges # 463 University of Central Florida.
  4. ↑ Alan Eustace - Senior VP . In: Crunch Base . Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  5. ↑ John Markoff : Parachutist's Record-Breaking Fall: 26 Miles, 15 Minutes. Alan Eustace Jumps From Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner's World Record. In: Science. The New York Times , October 24, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Alan Eustace breaks Felix Baumgartner's height record. n24.de from October 24, 2014, accessed on October 24, 2014
  7. ↑ 57-year-old Alan Eustace breaks Baumgartner record. In: DerStandard.at. October 24, 2014, accessed January 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Eustace, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eustace, Robert Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1956 or 1957