As head of Global Partnerships, Don oversees Google’s strategic partnerships worldwide and is responsible for product enablement and commercial partnerships across Google’s product and business groups. As head of Corporate Development, Don manages Google’s global mergers and acquisitions and investments team and has worked on Google’s largest transactions including Nest, Deepmind, DoubleClick, Admob, and Motorola. Don also manages Google’s Area 120 internal incubator. Prior to joining Google, Don was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where, in 2003, he was first introduced to Google and helped take them public. He started his career at the Toronto law firm of Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg, after earning a degree in political science and philosophy at Dalhousie University and a law degree from the University of Toronto.