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Management
Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products
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Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology
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Eric Schmidt, CEO and Chairman of the Board
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations. Eric's Novell experience culminated a 20-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies. His well-seasoned perspective perfectly complements Google's needs as a young and rapidly growing search engine with a unique corporate culture.
Prior to his appointment at Novell, Eric was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. Eric has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, Eric was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on "the development of strategies for the world's most successful Internet search engine company." Eric was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Fellow in 2007. He is also chairman of the board of directors for the New America Foundation.
Lorraine Twohill, VP Marketing
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Brent Callinicos, Treasurer
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Mark Fuchs, VP Finance & Chief Accountant
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Julio Pekarovic, VP Sales Finance
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Francoise Brougher, VP Business Operations
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Urs Holze, SVP Operations
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David Lawee, VP Corporate Development
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Andy Berndt, Managing Director
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Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for Google.
Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet.
Cerf served as Senior Vice President at MCI from 1994 to 2005 and as Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives from 1986 to 1994 and as Vice President of MCI from 1982
to 1986. During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.
Vint Cerf has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) since November 2000 and has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and on the
ISOC board until 2000. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and over a dozen additional honorary degrees. In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."
In addition to his work on behalf of MCI and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict." and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger.
His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons, David and Bennett.
Stuart Feldman, VP Engineering
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Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology
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Norio Murakami, VP GM
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Miriam Rivera, General Counsel
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Dennis Woodside, VP Business Operations
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Penry Price, VP Advertising Sales
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Tracy Wilk, VP Product Marketing
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Vic Gundotra, VP Engineering
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Nelson Mattos, VP Engineering
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Daniel Alegre, VP Business Development
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Shona Brown, VP Business Operations
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Tim Armstrong, VP Advertising Sales
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Wayne Rosing, VP Engineering
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Andrea Zurek, Agency Training Program Manager
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Jeff Huber, VP Engineering
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Alan Eustace, VP Engineering
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Marissa Mayer, Search Products & User Experience
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W. Coughran, VP Engineering
Bill is responsible for large-scale distributed computing programs underlying Google's products. Bill joined Google in early 2003 where he began working with the web crawling, storage and other systems’ teams. During his more than 20-year career in computing, Bill has been involved with embedded software for networking systems, security system products, and computational science and engineering. Prior to Google, Bill co-founded and served as CEO and in other executive roles at Entrisphere in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, he worked at Bell Labs and headed up the Computing Sciences Research Center, where C, C++, Unix, Plan 9, and Inferno were created.
Bill is an author of more than 50 publications and has served on several editorial, conference boards, and technical advisory committees. In addition, he has held adjunct and visiting positions at Stanford, the ETH, and Duke Universities.
Bill holds an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University as well as a BS and a MS in mathematics from Caltech.
Salar Kamangar, VP Program Management
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Kent Walker, General Counsel
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Megan Smith, VP New Business Development
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Johnny Chou, President of Sales
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Jonathan Rosenberg, VP of Product Management
Jonathan is Vice President of Product Management at Google where he is responsible for the development and management of Google's varied product lines, including AdWords keyword-based advertising products and syndication partner services. He brings more than 15 years experience in the fields of information services, the Internet, online services and computer software, including recent tenure as Senior Vice President of Online Products and Services for Excite@Home. Prior to joining @Home, Jonathan managed Apple's eWorld product line and served as Director of Product Marketing for Knight-Ridder Information Services in Palo Alto. It was in this role that he directed development of one of the first commercially deployed online relevance ranking engines and menu-driven Boolean search services for consumers.
Thomas Niermann, Head of Technology Program Management
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Dave Girouard, VP & GM Enterprise
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David Radcliffe, VP Real Estate
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David Eun, VP Content Partnerships
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Francois Delepine, VP Finance
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Susan Wojcicki, VP Product Management
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Lazlo Bock, VP Human Resources
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Douglas Merrill, VP Engineering
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Kai-Fu Lee, Vice President
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Sanjay Ghemawat, Fellow
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Alfred Spector, VP Research & Special Initiatives
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Rajas Moonka, Sr. Product Manager
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Jeff Dean, Fellow
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Benjamin Sloss Treynor, VP Engineering
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Nikesh Arora, President of Operations
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Mario Queiroz, VP Product Management
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Amit Singhal, Fellow
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George Reyes, CFO
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Omid Kordestani, SVP Sales & Business Development
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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Regional President
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Marlin Gilbert, Manager of Advertising Sales
Marlin Gilbert runs an advertising sales group at Google that is responsible for technology companies in Northern California. He previously managed marketing for Google's TV advertising business. Prior to Google, Marlin served as SVP of Marketing at Ecast. He was the 2nd employee and VP, Business Development at Arcot where he closed landmark security infrastructure software deals with Visa, Intel and America Online. Marlin was co-founder of TradingDynamics (Ariba acquisition, B2B auction software platform) and VP, Marketing at Dimension X (Microsoft acquisition, web animation tools for advertisers). Earlier in his career, he held a variety of sales, marketing and business development positions at Silicon Graphics during its rapid growth from $170 million to $4 billion in annual revenue.
Cindy McCaffrey, VP Marketing
With more than 15 years of experience in marketing communications in Silicon Valley, Cindy McCaffrey joined Google Inc. in 1999 when the company's search engine was a small but promising project created by two Stanford University computer science doctoral candidates. As vice president of Corporate Marketing at Google, McCaffrey had responsibility for Google's global corporate communications and marketing of the company's products and services to consumers and business customers worldwide. The growth in awareness of Google was largely attributable to McCaffrey's efforts to disseminate information about the company through viral communications efforts and targeted marketing initiatives in lieu of large expenditures on advertising or promotion.
McCaffrey has 20 years of experience in all aspects of marketing and corporate communications. Prior to joining Google, McCaffrey led domestic and international communications activities at several of Silicon Valley's highest profile companies, including Apple Computer, E*TRADE, The 3DO Company, and SmartForce. She is the recipient of the World Technology Network's 2004 World Technology Award in Marketing Communications.
McCaffrey graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska, and pursued graduate studies in American Literature. She began her career as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers, including The Omaha World-Herald; the Springfield (Mo.) Leader & Press; the Kansas City Business Journal; and The Contra Costa Times; and at high-tech trade publications, including Macintosh Today.
Joan Braddi, VP Sales
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Jim Wanderer, technical staff
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David Drummond, VP Corporate Development
David incorporated Google in 1998 when he was a partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, one of the nation's leading law firms representing technology businesses. David became Google's vice president, Corporate Development in 2002. In this role, David works with the management team to evaluate and drive new strategic business opportunities, including strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions.
Immediately prior to joining Google, David served as executive vice president, finance and chief financial officer for SmartForce, where he helped transform the publicly-traded company into the world's largest e-learning company. David earned his bachelor of arts degree in history from Santa Clara University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Udi Manber, VP Engineering
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Bradley Horowitz, VP Product Management
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Shiva Shivakumar, VP Distinguished Entrepreneur
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Board of Directors
Larry Page
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Sergey Brin
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Eric Schmidt
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Shirley Tilghman
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Al Gore
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Paul Otellini
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L. Doerr
L. John Doerr has served as one of our directors since August 1998. Mr. Doerr is a Class III director. Mr.Doerr has been a general partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers since 1980. Prior to his tenure at Kleiner Perkins, Mr. Doerr was employed by Intel Corporation for five years. He serves on the board of directors of Amazon.com, Inc., Google Inc., Intuit Inc., palmOne, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Arthur Levinson
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Ann Mather
Ann Mather joined Glu's board of directors as board member and audit committee chair in October 2005. Mather currently sits on the board of directors of Google Inc. and on the board of Central European Media Enterprises group. From May 2004 until its acquisition by eBay in 2005, Mather served as a director Shopping.com. From 1999 to 2004, she was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Pixar where she was responsible for finance, administration, business affairs, investor relations and HR. Prior to joining Pixar, Mather was executive vice president and chief financial officer at Village Roadshow Pictures, and she held various executive positions at the Walt Disney Company in Los Angeles from 1993 to 1999, including senior vice president of finance and administration for its Buena Vista International Theatrical Division. Mather also held various executive positions in Europe, including a position with Disney in Paris where she helped start the international theatrical distribution arm in ten European countries, as well as positions with Alico (a division of AIG) and Paramount Pictures. Mather holds an MA from Cambridge University in England.
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