Shuman Ghosemajumder

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Shuman Ghosemajumder (born 1974) is a Canadian technologist, author, and businessman based in Silicon Valley. He is co-author of the book CGI Programming Unleashed (Macmillan Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-57521-151-3) and has also written numerous works on digital distribution, including the Open Music Model (2003).

He is currently the business product manager for Trust & Safety at Google, which he joined in 2003. He was previously co-founder and CEO of Anadas, a Canadian software development firm, and a strategy consultant with IBM and McKinsey & Company. Early in his career, he created the first real-time collaborative graphic design application as a software engineer at Groupware Corporation.

He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and raised in Canada. He attended the University of Western Ontario on a President's Scholarship, earning a B.Sc. in Computer Science. He was also the recipient of a Canada Merit Scholarship Foundation award, as one of the top fifteen students in Canada. He earned an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

In college, he was one of the world's top debaters and public speakers, winning the North American Public Speaking Championship, the NYU International Debating Championship, and other distinctions. He was also the youngest-ever president of both the University of Western Ontario Debating Society and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate.