Alan Eustace is a computer scientist and engineer who spent 13 years in senior leadership at Google. Joining the company in 2002, he served as Senior Vice President of Engineering from 2005 to 2012, and subsequently as Senior Vice President of Knowledge until his retirement in 2015. In these roles, he led Google’s global engineering and research efforts, overseeing the technical infrastructure and product development that scaled the company’s core services to billions of users.

Prior to Google, Alan spent 15 years at Digital/Compaq/HP’s Western Research Laboratory, where he directed research in high-performance computing and chip architecture. He is a co-inventor on 10 patents and co-developed ATOM, a foundational system for binary-code instrumentation. Beyond his corporate leadership, Alan is a world-record-holding explorer; in 2014, he led the StratEx mission, successfully completing a record-breaking free-fall jump from the stratosphere at 135,890 feet.

Alan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida. He currently serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Pivotal, and Urban Sky.