David Carl Drummond is Google's Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. He joined Google in 2002. He is the Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Alphabet Inc.. He sits on the board of directors of a mental health not-for-profit, Crisis Text Line.
His first time working with Google was in 1998 as a partner at leading technology law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate transactions group; he was Google's first outside counsel.
Drummond earned a bachelor's degree in history from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School.