Evan Kotsovinos

Evan Kotsovinos is Vice President and General Manager at Google, where he leads strategy, product, and engineering covering the full lifecycle of data across Google. This includes data discovery, metadata management, monitoring of data usage, data compliance, lineage, retention, and policy enforcement and governance. His main strategic focus is on planet-scale solutions that protect the security and privacy of data of Google’s five billion users around the world.

Evan was previously Global Head of Infrastructure at American Express, where he oversaw an annual budget of over $1.2 billion and a global team of 6,000 people. Prior to that he served as Asia CIO at Morgan Stanley, where he managed all technology services and around 12,000 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.