Xander Pollock is a digital product designer and Google Ventures Design Sprint facilitator based in Silicon Valley. He has 10 years of experience in tech, from founding a startup to designing and launching new products for millions of users at Google. Today Xander helps companies align teams and build better products faster using Design Sprints. Trained by the inventor of the method Jake Knapp, Xander works with companies like Twitter, Adobe, Fitbit, Stanford, Cisco, Wells Fargo. Before consulting, Xander worked at Google as a designer for four years on the Google Maps and the Gmail team. He currently runs a small design and product consultancy (Palo Alto Design Company) and resides with his wife and son in Palo Alto, California.