Shuman Ghosemajumder

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 [ [http://p2pnet.net/story/136?eZSESSIDnews=5630f595bb82a50c44a820a35848981c The Open Music Model] (p2pnet, 2003)] , 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 was one of the early product managers of AdSense, and worked on the launches of various products including Gmail, Ad Links [ [http://computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,100483,00.html Google improves AdSense with Ad Links] (Computerworld, 2005)] , and AdSense for Feeds [ [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1816994,00.asp Google Opens RSS Ads to Publishers] (eWeek, 2005)] . He currently leads the product strategy for protecting the company's $16.4 billioncite web |url=http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html |title=Financial Tables |publisher=Google Investor Relations |accessdate=2008-01-31] advertising businesses against click fraud [ [http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/13/google-shuman-fraud-tech-cx_ag_0914google.html Counting Clicks: Google's Click Fraud Czar] (Forbes, 2007)] . 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.

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 [ [http://www.mindyourmind.ca/personal-stories/celebrity-gallery/shuman.asp Celebrity Interview: Google's Shuman Ghosemajumder] (MindYourMind, 2007)] .

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External links

* [http://shumans.com Shuman Ghosemajumder] (personal web site)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1045394/ Shuman Ghosemajumder] (IMDB)