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Kent Walker Esq.


Self Description

December 2008: "As General Counsel, Kent is responsible for managing Google's global legal team and advising the company's board and management on legal issues and corporate governance matters.

Before joining Google, Kent held senior legal positions at a number of leading technology companies. Most recently he was Deputy General Counsel of eBay Inc., where he managed corporate legal affairs, litigation, and legal operations. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Liberate Technologies, a leading provider of interactive services software founded by Oracle and Netscape Communications. He also served as Associate General Counsel for Netscape and America Online and Senior Counsel for AirTouch Communications, which was later acquired by Vodaphone.

Earlier in his career, Kent was an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the United States Department of Justice, where he specialized in the prosecution of technology crimes and advised the Attorney General on management and technology issues.

Kent has served on the boards of a number of technology industry trade associations and is on the steering committee of the annual Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School."

http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#walker

Third-Party Descriptions

November 2008: 'Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s director of global public policy, took an aggressive civil-libertarian position, arguing that the company should protect as much speech as possible. Kent Walker, Google’s general counsel, took a more pragmatic approach, expressing concern for the safety of the dozen or so employees at Google’s Turkish office.ider,” after George W. Bush’s folksy self-description.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.htm

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Executive (past or present) AirTouch Communications Organization Dec 1, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) America Online Inc. (AOL) Organization Dec 1, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) Google Organization Dec 1, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Harvard University Organization Dec 1, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) Justice Department/Department of Justice (DOJ) Organization Dec 1, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) Liberate Technologies Organization Dec 1, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) Netscape Communications Organization Dec 1, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Stanford University Organization Dec 1, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) eBay Organization Dec 1, 2008

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Nov 28, 2008 Google’s Gatekeepers

QUOTE: As more and more speech migrates online, to blogs and social-networking sites and the like, the ultimate power to decide who has an opportunity to be heard, and what we may say, lies increasingly with Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and even eBay....some House Democrats and Republicans have introduced a bipartisan bill called the Global Online Freedom Act, which would require that Internet companies disclose to a newly created office in the State Department all material filtered in response to demands by foreign governments.

 New York Times