Stephen Cho is Director of Product Management for Google's Partner Products. He is responsible for the syndication of Google's consumer products, in particular Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs, Start Page, Sites) and Search, to different groups of partners around the world (telco/ISP, media/portal, mobile, OEM). He was previously Director of Google's Global Online Sales and Operations division responsible for millions of Google Apps users and online customers, and prior to that was Director of New Content Initiatives where he was responsible for business development efforts around video/YouTube, Google Maps/Earth, Google Books/Scholar, and new areas, including non-music audio, government content, and news.

Prior to Google, Stephen was Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Cisco's Application-Oriented Networking Business Unit, where he led product management, marketing, business development, sales strategy, and overall business operations and planning for a several hundred person organization he helped found in 2003 and which focused on delivering intelligent application infrastructure (messaging, middleware) through the network. Earlier at Cisco, he was Senior Director of the Service Provider Solutions Practice in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), which developed Cisco- and partner-based solutions for major service providers around the world leveraging Cisco's advanced technologies (IP Telephony, contact centers, content delivery networks, ...). And prior to this he managed the the Cisco IBSG Customer Care and e-Commerce solutions organizations.

Before joining Cisco, Mr. Cho spent several years in business strategy and technology consulting with McKinsey & Company in their Telecommunications, Multimedia, and Electronics Practices and as a leader of their North American Data Networking Initiative. Prior to this, he was with The Boston Consulting Group focusing on technology areas. Mr. Cho was a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.