Brad Smith

What fascinates me about Brad Smith is how far you can rise without ever chasing the spotlight. A Princeton-trained lawyer from Milwaukee who climbed the legal ranks to become president of one of the world's largest technology companies, he embodies the quiet operator I tend to admire most. While headlines chase founders and engineers, it is often the general counsel who navigates antitrust, privacy, and policy storms that decide a company's future. I find his trajectory a useful reminder that influence in the tech era is wielded as much in argument and regulation as in code, and that careful, reasoned voices still matter enormously.

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Name (English)

Brad Smith

Name (Japanese)

ブラッド・スミス

Reading

ぶらっど・すみす

Born

January 17, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Occupation

lawyer / businessperson / jurist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

High school

Appleton West High School

University

Princeton University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad%20Smith%20(American%20lawyer)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9%20(%E5%BC%81%E8%AD%B7%E5%A3%AB)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50300377

Tags

• Wisconsin
• lawyer
• businessperson
• jurist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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