Shuman Ghosemajumder leads Trust & Safety product initiatives at Google, to help protect users, advertisers, and partners. His work in this role has included leading the global product strategy for protecting the $20B+ annual revenue AdWords business against click fraud and related threats. He joined Google in 2003 as one of the early product managers for AdSense and helped grow that business to over $2B in annual revenue. He also led the launch and growth of a new advertising product from $0 to a $100MM annual run rate in nine months, and helped launch other products including Gmail. He is the recipient of two Google Founders' Awards for extraordinary entrepreneurial achievement.
Shuman was previously a senior media & entertainment strategy consultant at IBM and co-founder of an Internet software development startup. He began his career as a software engineer, developing the first real-time collaborative graphic design application. He is the author of the Open Music Model, co-author of CGI Programming Unleashed (Macmillan, 1997), and a contributing author to Crimeware (Symantec, 2008).
Shuman has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, where he was a President's Scholar, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves on the board of directors of TeachAIDS. He lives with his wife in the San Francisco Bay Area.