| Shuman Ghosemajumder | |
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 Ghosemajumder in Hyderabad, India, 2010 |
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| Born | 1974 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Residence | Silicon Valley, California |
| Nationality | Canada |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario, MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Occupation | Technologist, Entrepreneur |
| Website | |
| shumans.com | |
Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the former click fraud czar at Google,[1][2] the author of works on digital distribution including the Open Music Model, and co-founder of TeachAIDS.[3]
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[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 attended after receiving a Canada Merit Scholarship Foundation award as one of the top fifteen students in the country. In college, he was the North American Public Speaking Champion and president of the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. He earned an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.[4]
[edit] Career
Early in his career, he created the first real-time collaborative graphic design application as a software engineer at Groupware.[5] He was later co-founder of a software development firm, and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and IBM.[6]
Ghosemajumder worked at Google from 2003 to 2010, where he led product management efforts for protecting their advertising services against click fraud, to safeguard over US $20 billion in annual pay per click revenue.[7] He was one of the early product managers for AdSense,[4] led the launch of Link Units[8] and AdSense for Feeds,[9][10] and was part of the team that launched Gmail.[5]
He was the recipient of two Google Founders' Awards for significant entrepreneurial accomplishments.[11]
He left Google in 2010 to grow TeachAIDS.[6]
He is co-author of CGI Programming Unleashed (Macmillan, ISBN 1-57521-151-3, 1997) and a contributing author to Crimeware (Symantec Press, ISBN 0-321-50195-0, 2008).
[edit] References
- ^ "The MIT 150: 150 Ideas, Inventions, and Innovators that Helped Shape Our World". The Boston Globe. May 15, 2011. http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/mitlist/?page=full. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ Andy Greenberg (September 14, 2007). "Counting Clicks: Google's Click Fraud Czar". Forbes Magazine. http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/13/google-shuman-fraud-tech-cx_ag_0914google.html.
- ^ "Last Lecture Keynotes". UWO. April 4, 2008. http://www.alumni.uwo.ca/getinvolved/students/lastlecturekeynotes.html#2008.
- ^ a b Karmen Dowling (October 1, 2009). "Alumni Awards of Merit". Western News. http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/alumni_awards_of_merit_-_2009_20091001444911/.
- ^ a b "Speaker Profile: Shuman Ghosemajumder". American Association of Advertising Agencies. September 22, 2006. http://ams.aaaa.org/eweb/AAAA_speakerprofile.aspx?cst_recno=2035693.
- ^ a b "TeachAIDS Team". TeachAIDS. October 21, 2010. http://teachaids.org/team.php.
- ^ "Financial Tables". Google. January 31, 2008. http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html.
- ^ Juan Carlos Perez (March 18, 2005). "Google improves AdSense with Ad Links". Computerworld. http://computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,100483,00.html.
- ^ Louise Story (June 5, 2005). "Marketers See Opportunity as a Web Tool Gains Users". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/business/media/05adco.html.
- ^ Matthew Hicks (May 17, 2005). "Google Opens RSS Ads to Publishers". eWeek. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1816994,00.asp.
- ^ "Celebrity Interview: Google's Shuman Ghosemajumder". Mind Your Mind. June 14, 2008. http://www.mindyourmind.ca/stories/interviews/advocates/100-shuman.
[edit] External links
- Shuman Ghosemajumder (personal web site)
- Shuman Ghosemajumder on IMDB