The girlfriend of Google billionaire Sergey Brin has been transferred in the wake of a bombshell office romance that rocked Silicon Valley, The Post has learned.
Internet side dish Amanda Rosenberg, 26 — a UK Googler who recently moved to the San Francisco corporate offices to work for Google Glass, a pet Brin project — has been moved to another post there “to be even further from Sergei in the chain of command,” a source close to the scandal said today.
Brin’s affair with Rosenberg was revealed yesterday after tech blog AllThingsD reported the search engine co-founder had split with his wife of six years, Anne Wojcicki. ValleyWag.com quickly outed Rosenberg as the other woman.
It’s unclear how long Rosenberg and Brin had been dating on the sly, but a source said the Google co-founder and his wife, both 40, were “still together when Amanda entered the picture.”
Brin and Wojciki – CEO of DNA testing kit firm 23andME –split about four months ago, an insider said.
Another source with knowledge of the relationship said it is “open to debate” on whether Rosenberg caused the split and called the Brin-Wojcicki marriage “complicated.”
Rosenberg had been dating another Googler, Hugo Barra, a top Android exec. Barra resigned this week to take a job with China Android phone maker Xiaomi.
His departure came in the wake of “a recent thorny personal situation related to the end of a romantic relationship he had with another Googler,” according to AllThingsD.
Adding to the drama, Wojcicki’s sister Susan Wojcicki is a senior Google exec. Brin and cofounder Larry Page started Google in Susan’s garage.
Google did not respond to calls for comment on the relationship, or whether it violated any corporate ethics code.
“Romantic relationships between co-workers can, depending on the work roles and respective positions of the co-workers involved, create an actual or apparent conflict of interest,” according to the Google conduct code posted online.
“If a romantic relationship does create an actual or apparent conflict, it may require changes to work arrangements or even the termination of employement of either or both individuals involved.”
The company also provides employees a handy conflict of interest litmus test.
“When faced with a potential conflict of interest, ask yourself: would this activity harm my reputation, negatively impact my ability to do my job at Google or potentially harm Google?” the code suggests. “Would this activity embarrass Google or me if it showed up on the front page of a newspaper or a blog?”
“If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes,’ the relationship or situation is likely to create a conflict of interest and you should avoid it.”
Rosenberg could not be reached.
Brin and his wife have not filed for divorce.