Eran Raven

Eran Raven
Eran Raven in Seoul, South Korea, on April 4, 2013
Born
Eran Feigenbaum

(1974-03-03) March 3, 1974
OccupationsMentalist and Security Expert
Websitehttp://www.EranRaven.com

Eran Raven is a mentalist and information security professional. He has done mentalism performances on the NBC TV show Phenomenon. In his technology work, under his birth name, Eran Feigenbaum, he was the former director of security at Google Enterprise (2007-2016) and the former chief information security officer for Jet.com.

Mentalism

In October and November 2007, Raven was one of ten mentalist contestants on the primetime NBC series Phenomenon, which was hosted by Tim Vincent and judged by Criss Angel and Uri Geller.[1] He finished as runner-up on the series, after performing dangerous demonstrations of mentalism involving razor blades, snakes, scorpions, and nail guns.[2]

Information security

As Eran Feigenbaum, he worked at Google[3] as head of security for Google Enterprise, and gave multiple presentations before technical audiences and members of Congress.[4] He has written security whitepapers with ex-Google CIO Douglas Merrill.[5]

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "Mind-Bending 'Phenomenon' Contestant Hopes Viewers Are Ravin' About Raven". .tbo.com. 2007-10-31. Retrieved 2010-06-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ Wright, Jennifer (2010-01-10). "Working it out". NYPOST.com. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  4. ^ "Google Security Chief by Day, TV Magician 'Eran Raven' by Night". Gawker.com. 2010-01-04. Archived from the original on 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  5. ^ Purba, Sanjiv (2001). "Contents". In Purba, Sanjiv (ed.). New Directions in Internet Management. Best Practices. Vol. 20. pp. ix–xiii. doi:10.1201/9780203997543. ISBN 978-0-8493-1160-4.