Biographies and headshots
Kent Walker, Senior Vice President, Global Affairs, Google (headshot)
Kent Walker has worked at the nexus of cutting-edge technology, policy, and legal issues for over twenty years. He currently oversees Google's legal, policy, and compliance affairs, product policies, philanthropic efforts, and work with governments around the world.
Before joining Google, Kent held executive positions at leading technology companies, including eBay, Netscape, AOL, and Airtouch Communications. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and advised the Attorney General on technology policy issues. At the start of his career, he worked as a litigator specializing in government and public law issues.
Kent graduated with honors from Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He has served on the boards of a variety of industry associations and currently serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers and the Mercy Corps Social Ventures Fund. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Kristie Canegallo, Vice President of Trust & Safety, Google (headshot)
Kristie Canegallo is Google’s Vice President of Trust & Safety, a position she has held since March 2018. In that role, Kristie leads the global team that develops and enforces product policies across Google’s portfolio. Trust & Safety works to protect Google’s users, prevent abuse products, and ensure Google is a trusted source of information, content, and interactions.
Prior to joining Google, Kristie served in a range of domestic policy, national security, and management roles in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations, concluding as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff from 2014 through January 2017. As Deputy Chief of Staff, she directed the implementation of the Obama Administration’s most complex and consequential policy initiatives. These included expanding affordable health care to millions of Americans while creating a more efficient healthcare system, improving delivery of benefits to our veterans, and updating technology procurement and application processes to improve U.S. Government operations and customer service. She also managed strategic planning and policy prioritization processes, led crisis response work, and coordinated risk-management efforts.
Kristie served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Bush and Obama, providing policy advice on the full spectrum of foreign policy issues, with particular expertise in overseas conflicts and defense strategy and planning. Before that, she worked at the Department of Defense, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before joining the U.S. Government, Kristie was an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Kristie is a member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the board of the United States of Care, a bipartisan health care nonprofit organization. She holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Colgate University.
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Mark Risher, Director of Product Management, Google Identity, Account Security, and Spam & Abuse, Google (headshot)
Mark Risher is Senior Director of Product Management at Google, where he leads account security, phishing, and identity, protecting users around the Internet from advanced attacks of all kinds. He’s worked in cyber security for more than a decade, protecting some of the largest online properties. Prior to its acquisition by Google in 2014, he was CEO and Co-Founder of Impermium—a SaaS anti-abuse and security provider—and "Spam Czar" at Yahoo!. Mark holds numerous patents for inventions in anti-spam, phishing detection, and account security, and has regularly presented worldwide to government, industry, and academia about cybersecurity issues. He also co-founded and sold a digital photography and fabrication business and worked as a producer for the Tribeca Film Festival. Outside of work, he can be found tinkering, hacking, and cooking needlessly complicated dishes.
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Jochen Eisinger, Director of Engineering, Chrome (headshot)
Jochen is a Director of engineering at Google, currently responsible for making Chrome the most trustworthy and safest tool for browsing the web. He has worked on various parts of Chrome for the past 9+ years, starting a software engineer in the Munich Chrome team working on privacy features.
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Stephan Micklitz, Senior Director of Engineering, Google Safety Engineering Center (headshot)
Stephan Micklitz in an Engineering Director for Privacy and Identity at Google in Munich. Stephan manages engineering teams across Europe and the US who work both on user-facing products and on internal infrastructure. These teams provide users with tools and controls to manage their privacy and security when using Google - helping them to keep their data secure and protect their privacy. Stephan’s organization also supports teams across Google and Alphabet with tools and infrastructure to build respectful products for our users.
Stephan joined Google in 2007 as a Software Engineer, and has been working on the Identity, Privacy and Security team since 2009. Stephan studied computer science at the TU München and completed his masters degree (Dipl. Inf.) in 2003. Prior to joining Google he worked for several software companies as an engineer and consultant for business software solutions.
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Parisa Tabriz, Senior Director of Engineering, Chrome (headshot)
Parisa Tabriz is a Senior Director of Engineering at Google, currently responsible for making Chrome the most safe and useful tool for browsing the web. She is also known as Google's "Security Princess" (her former job title!) and has worked on information security at Google for over a decade, starting as a "hired hacker" software engineer. Outside of Google, Parisa served as a consultant to the White House U.S. Digital Service to enhance security of government technology, lectured at the Harvard Kennedy School, and consulted with multiple entertainment writers to help them understand the world of cybersecurity and technology so they can create and depict more accurate, diverse stories.