John Hanke

Founder and Executive Chairman, Niantic Spatial

John Hanke is the founder and former CEO of Niantic, the maker of Ingress and Pokémon GO, and executive chairman of Niantic Spatial, which kept its geospatial technology after the games business was sold to Scopely in 2025. Earlier he was co-founder and CEO of Keyhole, the geospatial firm Google acquired in 2004 and developed into Google Earth.