In Brief
Meet Hemanshu Nigam
A short profile of the man in charge of security for MySpace
By Sarah D. Scalet
March 01, 2007 — CSO —
Name: Hemu Nigam
Headline: "Safety innovation never sleeps..."
Gender: Male
Age: 42 years old
Location: Beverly Hills, CALIFORNIA
Status: Married
Hometown: Born in Kanpur, India. Raised in Connecticut.
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Children: Four, ages 11, 10, 6 and 21 months
Education: Bachelor's degree, law degree
Hemu's Companies
Fox Interactive Media/MySpace
Chief Security Officer, 2006–present
Microsoft
Various jobs, including Director of Consumer Security Outreach and Child Safe Computing for the Security Technology Unit, 2002–2006
Motion Picture Association of America
VP of Worldwide Internet Enforcement, 2000–2002
U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
Attorney in the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
1997–2000
Los Angeles District Attorney's Office
Deputy District Attorney, handling felony and misdemeanor cases and also serving in the sex crimes unit, where he specialized in cases involving adult rape, child molestation and child abuse
1990–1997
Hemu's Schools
Boston University School of Law
Boston, Mass.
Graduated 1990
Wesleyan University
Middletown, Conn.
Major: Political theory and government
Graduated 1987
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