Eugene Huang joined the Cumberland Lodge Board of Trustees in July 2024. He has spent his career working at the intersection of technology, public policy, finance and media. Most recently, Eugene was a Senior Director at Google, where he was a member of the Strategic Response for Emerging Regulations group, a team at Google responsible for developing strategies that uphold Google’s values around user trust in response to emerging regulations.
Eugene previously served as a Senior Vice President for Digital Product and Technology for Discovery Networks International, where he was responsible for the development of the digital products and services that allowed millions of customers around the world to access Discovery’s portfolio of non-fiction, lifestyle, sports and kids’ programming.
Eugene Huang was also part of the team that delivered the 2018 Winter Olympics throughout Europe on the digital Eurosport Player. He previously held roles as an executive with American Express, and a partner at an early stage clean tech venture capital firm.
Eugene also spent a number of years in the public sector, having previously served in senior roles at the White House, the US Treasury Department, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Communications Commission. In these roles, Eugene was responsible for a wide range of policy initiatives including international technology and innovation policy, the government operations and civic engagement chapters of the US national broadband plan, and international economic and finance policy with a specific emphasis on US bilateral relations with China. Eugene was also a White House Fellow between 2006 and 2007, serving as an advisor to Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson.
From 2002 to 2006, Eugene served the Commonwealth of Virginia under Governor Mark R. Warner as the Secretary of Technology, and previously as the Deputy Secretary of Technology. Appointed in 2004 as the youngest cabinet member in Virginia history at the age of 28, Eugene was a key member of the management team responsible for Virginia’s designation as the nation’s best-managed state in 2005.
Eugene graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering. He received a Thouron Award from the University of Pennsylvania and studied at St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, where he received a M.Phil., with distinction, in Economic History. Eugene is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and is a named inventor on two patents.