GOOGLE'S MAGIC PROTECTOR
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 04:11AM
Dodd Vickers

Mentalist and magician Eran Raven has a secret identity! By day he's Eran Feigenbaum, the Director of security for Google.com. In a profile from ValleyWag, he's profiled for his non-magical achievements:

Eran Feigenbaum— better known as "Eran Raven" — has turned the cheese knob up awfully high, considering his buttoned-down job as the Director of Security for the putative blue-chip operation that is Google Enterprise, which is trying to sell "cloud computing" to no less uptight a customer than the federal government. There's his stage makeup and hair, sure, but also the animated ring that hovers above his hand in the splash screen for his professional website. In his defense, Feigenbaum isn't all hocus pocus, at least on paper: he boasts a stint as US Chief Information Security Officer for PricewaterhouseCoopers, an MBA from Pepperdine and computer engineering degree from UC Irvine. But none of that leaves as much of an impression as his stint on NBC's Phenomenon as Eran Raven, whofamously played Russian roulette with a series of nail guns (see clip above), fell on a bed of nails and used his "magic amulet" on an NBC intern (ahem).

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