Vint Cerf has been serving as Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google since October 2005. Vint Cerf is responsible for identifying new commercially viable technologies and utilizing them for internet-based commercialization and service development. Cerf has previously worked at MCI, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and served as a faculty member at Stanford University.

Widely known as the "Father of the Internet," Vint Cerf is the co-inventor of internet architecture and basic protocols. In December 1997, President Clinton awarded Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn the National Medal of Technology for developing the internet. Vint Cerf is a recipient of the Turing Award, also called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science," and in November 2005 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Bush. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn also received the Japan Prize.

Cerf served as Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000 to 2007, and served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992 to 1995 and chairman of the board in 1999. Vint Cerf is Honorary Chairman of the IPv6 Forum, which contributed to raising awareness and accelerating the introduction of new internet protocols.

Cerf was also a member of the US President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001, and has served as a member of various national organizations, associations, and committees conducting research on cybersecurity and related topics.

Vint Cerf has received various domestic and international awards and honors related to the internet industry, notably including the Marconi Society Award, the Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, and Tunisia's National Medal of Science. Vint Cerf is a member of IEEE, ACM, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, USC Annenberg Center for Communications, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Hasso Plattner Institute, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2011, Vint Cerf was appointed as a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In December 1994, People Magazine named Vint Cerf one of "The 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year."

Vint Cerf received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master's and Doctoral degrees in Computer Science from UCLA, and has also received over 20 honorary degrees.