Stephan Somogyi is the Product Management Lead for Specialized and Critical Problems on the User Protection team at Google.Immediately prior, he was the Product Management Lead for Android Platform Security. Before that he was part of Google AI as well as Chrome, developing new approaches to make computing safer and more privacy-preserving. Previously, Stephan led the expansion of Safe Browsing, Google’s system that currently protects over four billion devices worldwide from malware and phishing. He also built and led Motorola’s Privacy Engineering team after the acquisition through the launch of the first Moto X; worked on End-To-End, a project to make strong encryption more usable; as well as a variety of other security and privacy efforts. He’s also an advisor to both GV—Alphabet's venture capital arm—and CapitalG—Alphabet's growth equity investment fund.Prior to joining Google, Stephan held a range of global security and product management roles, including stints at VMWare and Infineon. He was previously the Director of Products at PGP Corporation, and has also worked in brand strategy and information design. In a former life, he was a business, technology, and design journalist, writing for the Economist, the Financial Times, Wired, and I.D. Magazine, among others.