Duncan Lennox
VP/GM, Ads Privacy & Safety, Google
Duncan leads Google’s Ads Privacy and Safety (APaS) organization. In this role, he oversees a
team working to keep the advertising ecosystem safe, earn and maintain the trust of users and
customers, and ensure Ads products are compliant with global regulations. Beyond product
efforts, Duncan is also the executive sponsor for the Ads DEI&B Council, a group dedicated to
making Ads a place where every Googler, regardless of background or experience, can belong
and succeed.
Prior to joining Ads, Duncan led Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for some of Google’s largest
consumer products including Search and Maps, where his team focused on availability,
performance, capacity and risk management. Before Google, he spent four years at Amazon
Web Services as the GM for Amazon Elastic File System, and over two decades as the
co-founder and CEO/CTO of two enterprise SaaS companies in the sales enablement and
productivity space.
Duncan is originally from Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in Massachusetts with his wife and
daughters.