Evan Kotsovinos is a Vice President and General Manager at Google, where he leads strategy, product, and engineering for the lifecycle of data across Google. His strategic focus is on planet-scale solutions that protect the security and privacy of data of Google’s billions of users around the world. Evan was previously Global Head of Infrastructure at American Express, responsible for the company’s data centers, networks, compute, storage, hybrid cloud, data infrastructure, and SRE teams. Prior to that he served as Asia CIO at Morgan Stanley, where he managed all technology services and resources in the region. Evan began his career as a Senior Research Scientist with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and is a recognized leader in cloud computing, having led the team that developed one of the first cloud computing systems in the early 2000s at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s in Finance from London Business School.