Shuman Ghosemajumder

Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the former click fraud czar at Google,<ref name=mit150>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=forbes>Template:Cite news</ref> the author of works on technology and business including the Open Music Model, and co-founder of TeachAids.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was chief technology officer for Shape Security,<ref name="MITSloanCIO">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="shape2">Template:Cite news</ref> which was acquired in 2020 for $1 billion by F5,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> where he became head of artificial intelligence.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is the co-founder and CEO of Reken, an AI cybersecurity startup.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life

Ghosemajumder was born in Stuttgart, West Germany and grew up in London, Ontario, Canada. He attended London South Collegiate Institute, where he was elected student council president.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He earned a BSc 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. While in university, he was the North American Public Speaking Champion and president of the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. He earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.<ref name=wn /> He also earned a brown belt in Goju-Ryu karate.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Early in his career, he created the first real-time collaborative graphic design application as a software engineer at Groupware.<ref name=Businessweek>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref> He was later co-founder of a software development firm, and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and IBM.<ref name="teachaids">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Ghosemajumder worked at Google from 2003 to 2010, where he led product management efforts for protecting their advertising services,<ref name="wsj">Template:Cite news</ref> worth US $20 billion in annual pay per click revenue,<ref name="financialtables">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> against click fraud. He was one of the early product managers for AdSense,<ref name=wn>Template:Cite news</ref> led the launch of Link Units<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and AdSense for Feeds,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was part of the team that launched Gmail. He was the recipient of two Google Founders' Awards for significant entrepreneurial accomplishments.<ref name=Businessweek />

He left Google in 2010 for TeachAids, a non-profit educational technology start-up spun-out of Stanford University, which he had co-founded and where he was chairman.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2012, he joined Shape Security, which was acquired by F5 in 2020.<ref name="shape">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="businessinsider">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="forbes2">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2024, he founded Reken, a startup to combat generative AI-enabled fraud, raising $10 million in seed funding.<ref name=":0" />

Works

He is co-author of CGI Programming Unleashed (Macmillan, Template:ISBN, 1997) and a contributing author to Crimeware (Symantec Press, Template:ISBN, 2008). His master's thesis<ref name=thesis>Template:Cite thesis</ref> proposed the Open Music Model, which predicted the use of music subscription services.<ref name="opensource">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2011, he was included on the MIT150 list, as one of the top innovators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<ref name=mit150 />

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