Eric Grosse

Eric has recently retired as Google’s VP Security & Privacy Engineering, after almost ten wonderful years working with a team of passionate and talented people. His team’s accomplishments include improved and wider use of network encryption, stronger consumer authentication technology, detection and blocking of foreign espionage, transparency on government request for data, sophisticated malware analysis, tools and frameworks for safer building of web applications. Before Google, Eric was a Research Director and Fellow at Bell Labs. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford.