He has just been named CIO of Google, he worked on Google's IPO at Morgan Stanley...but Benjamin Fried is a partner in Fra' Mani Handcrafted Salumi, a purveyor of fine Italian cured food. Diversifying his investments? Or perhaps the famed Google cafeteria helped in the recruiting process?
Seriously though he fits well into the Web 2.0 world. He has a LinkedIn profile, a Columbia University web page, a Facebook profile. And he worked in IT for a decade at the University and appears equally comfortable in Unix and Mac environments. If he had come from a pure Microsoft background, you think it may have been a slightly tougher sell?
