Anyone who does business with Google knows Philipp Schindler

Philipp Schindler, Google’s top sales executive, has set his cellphone ringtone to the « Star Wars » musical theme. His office decor includes a collection of toy lightsabers and he infuses presentations with references to the space epic.

The props suit a man tasked with convincing business partners and regulators that his employer’s enormous influence over the digital economy is more of a force for good than ill.