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Douglas Merrill

Co-Founder and CEO of ZestFinance.com; Google’s Former Chief Information Officer,

Douglas Merrill is the former chief information officer at Google, where he championed innovation at one of the world’s most innovative companies. Dr. Merrill now helps companies around the world learn how to build their own sustainable cultures of innovation. His latest project is ZestFinance.com, a big data-fuelled underwriting and short-term loan service that provides customers with an affordable alternative to traditional payday loan companies. Dr. Merrill has also served as COO of new music at EMI Group and VP of infrastructure and HR strategy at Charles Schwab, and as an information scientist at the RAND Corporation. He holds a PhD in cognitive science from Princeton and is the author of Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff Out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right.

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