Ben worked in product and marketing for 11 years at Google, most recently leading the "next billion users" team. He also spent some time as Director of Product at Schmidt Futures before taking last year off to hang out with his 14 month old niece, get reacquainted with the US after five years in Sydney, and decompress. Outside of work, Ben likes to swim competitively and in the ocean, hike, adventure to new parts of the world, and cook pizzas. He has a BA in Human Biology from Stanford and a Masters in Business from Monash University in Australia, where he was a Fulbright scholar.