As a student at St. Andrew’s, Ginevan had been a research intern at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an internship that Science Teacher Mr. Gabe Hodziewich helped arrange. So he went to college with an interest in technology but also an interest in journalism.

“At the time, I wanted to do something at the intersection of journalism and technology and ended up choosing Syracuse because they had a really great technology program at the iSchool and also a great journalism program,” said Ginevan. “At the time I wanted to get dual degrees but the schools were not that well aligned, so good luck graduating in under five years. So I ended up predominantly focusing on the iSchool and the rest is history.”

The “rest” is a 25-year career in technology which has led him to his current position at Google as the Head of Global Technology Partnerships, Android Enterprise. A position in a career he might not have had if he hadn’t decided to go down the technology path as a young college student.

“I just sort of had this feeling that technology, the Internet, computers – all this stuff – was going to become really important,” Ginevan said. “Learning more about how these things work and how do you build the systems, that’s where my interests at the time developed.”

In 2004, Ginevan earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management & Technology. A couple of years later, he went back to Syracuse and added a Master’s Degree in Information Systems. After working at Cisco for a little more than a year, he shifted to MobilIron, working with the company which he joined as a start-up through its IPO. He began as a Technical Marketing Manager/Solutions Architect and eight years later, when he departed the company in 2017 to move to Google, he left MobileIron as the Senior Director, Strategy having served in that position for more than two and a half years.

“I have been really fortunate to work on a variety of different technologies which went on to become super ubiquitous,” Ginevan said. “At Cisco, working on WiFi, which I don’t think any person in the world not lives particularly well without WiFi. At MobilIron, working on a lot of the early security and management frameworks that allow the iPhone to become a business tool and really displace BlackBerry, and here at Google, working a lot on the next wave, which is the rise of artificial intelligence and generative AI and our extended reality platform.”

As the Head of Global Technology Partnerships for Android, Ginevan helps manage a platform that has three billion users. He is fully aware of the responsibility that comes with such a huge user base.

“I think there is a lot of responsibility that comes with working on these tools and realizing that we need to deliver a great experience to users that they appreciate, but we also have to be deep stewards of the information that people trust us with,” Ginevan said. “You think about how you use the phone, right? It is the thing that’s often in your pocket at points throughout your day, if not your enter day, especially if you've got a watch or buds or something like that. So yeah, it definitely comes with a sense of responsibility.”

A responsibility Ginevan was better prepared for because of his educational experiences.

“I think in my current career, coming from less of a pure engineering background and being able to incorporate things like economics courses and communications courses, has allowed me to do the things I do today,” Ginevan said. And a lot of that traces back to St. Andrew’s and the focus on being a strong writer, how do you form an argument and how do you analyze sources.

“The intellectual rigor was absolutely there and also at the same time, it wasn’t just that. There was also a deep connection to the arts as well. I think that the diversity of experience that the school brought was pretty unique and a lot of fun.”