Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He is the former

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, the author of works on technology and business including the Open Music Model, and co-founder of

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. He was chief technology officer for Shape Security, which was acquired in 2020 for $1 billion by F5, where he became head of artificial intelligence. He is the co-founder and CEO of Reken, an AI cybersecurity startup. He is a Senior Fellow at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Early life

Ghosemajumder was born in

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and grew up in

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, Canada. He attended London South Collegiate Institute, where he was elected student council president. He earned a BSc in

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

from the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

, 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

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from the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

. He also earned a brown belt in Goju-Ryu karate.

Career

Early in his career, he created the first real-time collaborative

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application as a

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at Groupware. He was later co-founder of a software development firm, and a

management consultant Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultant ...

with

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and

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

. Ghosemajumder worked at Google from 2003 to 2010, where he led product management efforts for protecting their advertising services, worth US $20 billion in annual

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revenue, against

. He was one of the early product managers for

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, led the launch of Link Units and AdSense for Feeds, and was part of the team that launched

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. He was the recipient of two

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s for significant entrepreneurial accomplishments. He left Google in 2010 for

, a non-profit

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start-up spun-out of

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, which he had co-founded and where he was chairman. In 2012, he joined Shape Security, which was acquired by F5 in 2020. In 2024, he founded Reken, a startup to combat generative AI-enabled fraud, raising $10 million in seed funding.

Works

He is co-author of ''CGI Programming Unleashed'' ( Macmillan, , 1997) and a contributing author to ''Crimeware'' ( Symantec Press, , 2008). His master's thesis proposed the Open Music Model, which predicted the use of music subscription services. In 2011, he was included on the

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list, as one of the top innovators from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghosemajumder, Shuman 1974 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Toronto Munk School Bengali people Businesspeople from London, Ontario German emigrants to Canada Canadian technology writers Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian people of Bengali descent Canadian Hindus Writers from London, Ontario University of Western Ontario alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni IBM employees McKinsey & Company people Canadian management consultants Google employees Chief technology officers