Dr. Eric Schmidt
Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that companys 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 Googles 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 Googles day-to-day operations. Erics 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 Googles 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, Suns platform-independent programming technology, and defined Suns 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 of science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a masters 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 worlds most successful Internet search engine company."

 Sergey Brin
             Co-Founder & President, Technology

Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his masters degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an honorary MBA from Instituto de Empresa. It was at Stanford where he met Larry Page and worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google Inc. in 1998, and Sergey continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.

Sergeys research interests include search engines, information extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large text collections and scientific data. He has published more than a dozen academic papers, including Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web; Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality, which he published with Larry Page; Scalable Techniques for Mining Casual Structures; Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data; and Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations.

Sergey has been a featured speaker at several international academic, business and technology forums, including the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. He has shared his views on the technology industry and the future of search on the Charlie Rose Show, CNBC, and CNNfn. In 2004, he and Larry Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight.

Larry Page
                Co-Founder & President, Products

Larry Page was Googles founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as President, Products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibility for Googles day-to-day operations with Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin.

The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Dr. Carl Victor Page, Larrys love of computers began at age six. While following in his fathers footsteps in academics, he became an honors graduate from the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering. During his time in Ann Arbor, Larry built an inkjet printer out of Lego™ bricks.

While in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry met Sergey Brin and together they developed and ran Google, which began operating in 1998. Larry went on leave from Stanford after earning his masters degree.

In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with Co-Founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

George Reyes
         Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

George Reyes joined Google as chief financial officer in 2002. A seasoned finance executive with a wide range of experience at several well-known Silicon Valley technology companies, George joined Google from ONI Systems where, as interim CFO, he assisted in the sale of the optical networking company to Ciena Corporation.

Prior to ONI Systems, George spent 13 years at Sun Microsystems. During his years at Sun, he held a number of finance roles including Group Controller - General Systems, Director of Finance - Intercontinental Operations, Audit Director, Vice President - Corporate Controller and Vice President-Treasurer.

Currently, George is a Director of Symantec Corporation and BEA Systems Inc.

George holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from the University of South Florida.

Omid Kordestani
Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Business Development

Omid Kordestani is the Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development. He is directly responsible for Googles worldwide revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company’s sales organization. He joined in May 1999 as Googles "business founder," leading the development and implementation of the company’s initial business model. Since then he has brought Google to profitability in record time, generating more than $6 billion in revenue in 2005.

Omid has more than 20 years of high technology consumer and enterprise experience, holding key positions at several startups, including Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. As vice president of Business Development and Sales, he grew Netscapes online revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18 months.

Prior to Netscape, he held positions in marketing, product management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.

Omid received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1991 and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University in 1984.

 Jonathan Rosenberg
Senior Vice President, Product Management and Marketing

Jonathan Rosenberg is an 18-year industry veteran who oversees the teams that manage Googles innovative product portfolio and go-to-market strategies. In this role, Jonathan oversees the development, improvement and customer acceptance of all of Googles products, from consumer offerings to business services. He directs the teams with a special focus on delivering exceptional user experiences, continuous innovation, and highly relevant, accountable, and untraditional marketing.

Prior to joining Google in 2002, Jonathan founded, led, and managed some of the most innovative product development teams of the Internets first era. He was the founding member of @Homes product group and served as Senior Vice President of Online Products and Services after the merger of Excite and @Home. Prior to that, Jonathan managed the eWorld product line for Apple Computer. Earlier, he was Director of Product Marketing for Knight Ridder Information Services in Palo Alto, California, where he directed development of one of the first commercially deployed online relevance ranking engines and menu-driven Boolean search services for consumers.

Jonathan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA with honors in Economics from Claremont McKenna College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa

David C. Drummond
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer

David Drummond became Googles 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. He also serves as Googles general counsel.

David was first introduced to Google in 1998 as a partner in the corporate transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, one of the nations leading law firms representing technology businesses. He served as Googles first outside counsel, and worked with Larry Page and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial rounds of financing. During his tenure at Wilson Sonsini, David worked with a wide variety of technology companies, advising them on all aspects of their business and financial activities and helping them manage complex transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings.

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 worlds 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.

Shona Brown
          Senior Vice President, Business Operations

Shona Brown took on responsibilities for Googles business operations in 2003, following almost a decade consulting with technology clients in Toronto and Los Angeles for McKinsey and Company. As a partner at McKinsey, she was a leader of the Global Strategy Practice and worked with a wide range of firms on strategy development, business model transformation and operational issues. Her experience includes extensive work in consumer software and hardware technology, online consumer services, and Internet media markets.

She has taught in the Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and within McKinseys mini-MBA program. She is the author of the best-selling business book, Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, which introduced a new strategic model for competing in volatile markets, and she has published broadly in both applied and academic journals.

Shona has a bachelor of computer systems engineering degree from Carleton University in Canada and a masters degree in economics and philosophy from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She received her Ph.D. and Post-Doctorate from Stanford Universitys Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.