A living, measured model of the physical world.

Inhi Cho Suh is the Chief Executive Officer of Niantic Spatial, where she leads the company’s mission to build a Large Geospatial Model (LGM) for the next generation of physical AI. With a career dedicated to solving complex technical challenges, Inhi is responsible for scaling the business as it expands into high-stakes sectors including robotics, defense, and the public sector.

Before joining Niantic Spatial, Inhi was the President of Product, Technology, and Operations at DocuSign, where she led the company’s global expansion into AI-powered intelligent agreement management. Previously, she spent over 20 years at IBM in senior leadership roles, most notably as General Manager of the Big Data and Analytics division. During her tenure at IBM, she was a pioneer in the early commercialization of Hadoop, machine learning, and data governance. Inhi’s leadership is characterized by a commitment to building transformative technology with a focus on its long-term societal impact. She holds a B.S. from Duke University and a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law.

John Hanke is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Niantic Spatial, a geospatial AI company building real-world foundation models for physical AI.

Previously, John was Founder and CEO of Niantic, Inc., where he led the creation of a global geospatial technology platform that powered hit games including Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, Monster Hunter Now, and Ingress. John founded Niantic Labs at Google in 2011 after serving as Vice President of Google’s Geo division, where he led the development of products including Google Maps and Street View. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Keyhole, the digital earth company whose technology became Google Earth.

Brian "Bam" McClendon is the Chief Technology Officer at Niantic Spatial, where he leads the engineering development of the company’s groundbreaking Large Geospatial Model. Building on a legacy of innovation in mapping technologies, Brian is developing a new generation of geospatial maps to transform the way we understand and interact with the physical world.

He previously served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Niantic Labs. Under his leadership, Niantic advanced its Visual Positioning System (VPS), built upon a precise and detailed 3D map of the world. These innovations enabled developers to create immersive, cross-platform extended reality (XR) experiences that overlay digital content with the physical environment. Brian brings nearly four decades of experience in computer graphics, mapping, computer vision and machine learning, and has made significant contributions to geospatial technology with 40 patents to his name. He began his career at Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), where he helped build 3D graphics supercomputers.

In 2001, he co-founded Keyhole, Inc., where he served as Vice President of Engineering before the company was acquired by Google. At Google, Brian spent the next decade leading the Geo engineering team, where he played a key role in the development and evolution of Google Earth, Google Maps, Street View, Local Search, and GroundTruth. Under his leadership, these tools helped map over 220 countries, capture more than 10 million miles of Street View imagery, and serve over 1 billion monthly users — with Google Earth covering more than 36 million square miles of satellite imagery.

After Google, Brian joined Uber as Vice President of Maps and Business Platform, where he continued to advance location-based technologies at global scale. He serves as a research professor at the University of Kansas, his alma mater, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in electrical engineering from the university in 2015. In a fitting tribute to his roots, his childhood home at Meadowbrook Apartments in Lawrence, Kansas was set as the original default center point of Google Earth.

Dave Citron is Chief Product Officer at Niantic Spatial, where he leads product as the company scales spatial AI models and services that let machines reason, learn and act in the physical world.

Dave joined from Microsoft AI, where he was Corporate Vice President of Product on the Superintelligence team and helped build and launch Microsoft’s first frontier foundation models, spanning image, voice, transcription, reasoning, coding and security. At Google DeepMind, he helped scale the Gemini app to hundreds of millions of monthly users and led its expansion into business, enterprise and education.

Earlier at Google, Dave grew Google Meet to more than 450 million monthly users and scaled Google Duo from early stage to 120 million daily active users. He began his career at Microsoft, where he helped take OneDrive from its first release to more than 200 million monthly users, and eventually led its enterprise and infrastructure products.