Jonathan Rosenberg is the former Senior Vice President of Products at

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and current advisor to

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management team and board.

Biography

Jonathan Rosenberg was born to a Jewish family on July 20, 1961. Rosenberg received a Masters of Business Administration degree from the

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as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in economics from Claremont McKenna College.

Career

Previous to joining Google, Rosenberg was Vice President of Software for

palmOne Palm, Inc. was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and various other electronics. They were the designer of the PalmPilot, the first PDA successfully marketed worldwide, as well as the Treo 60 ...

, a provider of handheld computer and communications solutions. He joined Google in 2002 and oversaw the design and development of the company’s consumer, advertiser, and partner products, including Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, Apps, and Chrome. While at Google, Rosenberg managed many noteworthy employees, including

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. He resigned from his position as SVP in 2011. Prior to joining at Google, Rosenberg worked at @Home, where he was a founding member of the product group and senior vice president of online products and services after @Home merged with

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. Rosenberg was appointed as the COO of Motorola Mobility, replacing former COO Dennis Woodside, on February 12, 2014. He is the coauthor, along with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Director of Executive Communications Alan Eagle, of a New York Times best-selling book titled '' How Google Works'', which was published in September, 2014. He also published a book called ''Trillion Dollar Coach'' that reached number 1 on Wall Street journal bestseller list and was also New York Times Best Seller.

Popular Culture

Jonathan Rosenberg is featured in an Academy Award-winning documentary about espionage in the digital age.

References

External links

How Google Works (The best ideas, by TECHmED)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Jonathan 1961 births Living people Claremont McKenna College alumni University of Chicago alumni Google people 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews