Bryan Solar

Bryan Solar has an extensive and diverse work experience. Bryan is currently serving as the Chief Product Officer at SpotOn since December 2022. Prior to this role, they worked at Square as the GM/Head of Restaurants from April 2021 to November 2022. From 2016 to 2021, they worked at Google in various roles, including GM/Product Lead SMB Restaurants Tools Team and SMB New Products & Markets Lead, where they identified new products and services for local businesses and developed early versions of products. Before Google, Bryan co-founded TownHound, a real-time marketing technology company that was acquired by Google in 2016. Bryan also had a role at Invoice2go as a Product Strategy MBA Intern. Bryan's earlier experience includes co-founding Main Street Partners, a non-profit organization that provided turnaround services to struggling inner-city small businesses, and working at The Brookeside Group as the Head of Strategic Partnerships and an Associate Consultant. Bryan started their career by co-founding Lazy Mule Laundry, a pick-up and delivery laundry service for college students and faculty. Bryan holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Bryan Solar's education history includes completing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in International Studies with minors in Chinese and Business from Colby College between 2004 and 2008. Bryan also had a brief academic stint at Peking University in 2007 but did not complete any degree there. Additionally, they attended Beijing Language and Culture University in an unspecified time frame before 2006 and Shanghai University before 2005, but no degrees were mentioned for these institutions or time periods. Apart from traditional educational institutions, Bryan also pursued Product Management at Stanford Continuing Studies, and they previously attended Strake Jesuit College Prep School, where no specific degree or field of study was highlighted.