Shuman Ghosemajumder

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Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, businessman, and author based in Silicon Valley. He is a member of the product management team at Google, the author of works on digital distribution including the Open Music Model[1], and co-author of the book CGI Programming Unleashed (Macmillan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57521-151-3).

Ghosemajumder has worked at Google since 2003, leading a number of initiatives. He is currently the Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety, where his responsibilities include managing the product strategy for protecting the company's $10 billion advertising businesses against click fraud[2]. He was previously one of the early product managers of AdSense, and worked on the launches of various products including Gmail, Ad Links[3], and AdSense for Feeds[4]. He has received two Google Founders' Awards for significant entrepreneurial accomplishments.

Before joining Google, he was a management consultant with IBM and McKinsey & Company, and co-founder and CEO of Anadas, a Canadian software development firm. Earlier in his career, he created the first real-time collaborative graphic design application as a software engineer at Groupware Corporation.

[edit] Early life

Ghosemajumder was born in Stuttgart, Germany and grew up in London, Ontario, Canada. He earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, where he studied on a President's Scholarship. He won a Canada Merit Scholarship Foundation award as one of the top fifteen students in Canada. In college, he was a champion debater and public speaker; he won the North American Public Speaking Championship and was president of the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. He earned an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management[5].

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Open Music Model (p2pnet, 2003)
  2. ^ Counting Clicks: Google's Click Fraud Czar (Forbes, 2007)
  3. ^ Google improves AdSense with Ad Links (Computerworld, 2005)
  4. ^ Google Opens RSS Ads to Publishers (eWeek, 2005)
  5. ^ Celebrity Interview: Google's Shuman Ghosemajumder (MindYourMind, 2007)

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