Getaround announced it has hired Brian Jackson as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Bringing more than 35 years of experience to Getaround, Jackson took up his new role in January of this year. Jackson has held numerous engineering leadership positions throughout his career.

Most recently, he served as Bluevine's Head of United States Engineering where he built and led the engineering team in developing initial products to support the company's strategic evolution from lending to banking. Prior to Bluevine, he served in leadership roles at both Facebook and Google. At Facebook, Jackson served as Engineering Director of Growth Infrastructure, where he led the development of common systems to drive growth across Facebook's product suite.

Previously, he served as Google's Engineering Director of Apps for Work, where his division contributed approximately $250 million in revenue per year to Google Apps. In his new role, Jackson will be responsible for Getaround's engineering efforts globally, overseeing all the core platform, software, and hardware technology teams that develop and enhance Getaround's proprietary digital technology, product, and connected car offerings. Jackson will also oversee Getaround's global platform strategy supporting the expansion of Getaround's services in existing and new markets, as well as further transforming Getaround's remote engineering and security and IT operations culture to cost-effectively source and manage high-performing engineering, security and IT operations teams worldwide.

Jackson also currently serves on Checkups Medical's Board of Directors, which is a nonprofit organization aimed at improving the health of mothers and their families in medically underserved communities. He has also served as Vice President of Engineering for diCarta/Emptoris (acquired by IBM), Vice President of Product Development for Epiphany (acquired by Infor), Vice President of Engineering for Xtime (acquired by Cox Automotive), and as Vice President of Software Engineering for Brio Technology (acquired by Hyperion). He graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Engineering.