By . Neil Sears . and David Gardner . and Jessica Jerreat . The relationship between Google co-founder Sergey Brin and the company's marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg may have broken the Internet giant's company code. Miss Rosenberg, who is credited with coming up with the 'OK, Glass' command for Google Glass was named as the new . lover of Brin, 40, yesterday. Google has been rocked by talk of the . romance, and a spokesman yesterday confirmed that Brin – one of the . world’s richest men with a $23 billion fortune – has for several months . been living apart from his wife of six years, and mother of his two children, Anne Wojcicki. Glasses promotion: Rosenberg with boss Brin and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg in New York . It is not known how long Miss Rosenberg, who was educated at the $48,000-a-year Marlborough College, the same school as the Middletons, has been dating Brin. An unnamed source told the New York Post Brin and his wife were 'still together when Amanda entered the picture'. It is possible the relationship violated Google's company code. Google gossip: Amanda Rosenberg is the . 27-year-old British woman who has struck up a romance with billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin . An online version of the code states: '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'. It added: 'If . a romantic relationship does create an actual or apparent conflict, it . may require changes to work arrangements or even the termination of . employment of either or both individuals involved.' Google goes on to offer a self-test to help employees decide if their relationship could cause a problem. '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? '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.' Brin is not the first Google executive Miss Rosenberg has been linked to since she transferred to the San Francisco offices last year. She was linked to Hugo Barra, who resigned this week to take a job with Android phone maker Xiaomi in China. His departure comes after 'a recent thorny personal situation related to the end of a romantic relationship he had with another Googler,' the New York Post reported. 'Relationships between senior executives and more-junior employees raise myriad concerns,' James McRitchie, publisher of Corporate Governance, said. 'Dating a subordinate is generally a bad idea, from the company's perspective,' he told Yahoo Finance, adding that it had the potential to damage morale or violate confidentiality. Should Brin and his wife divorce, Californian law suggests their . massive fortune would have to be halved – although they reportedly . signed a strict pre-nuptial agreement. While the internet was agog . with talk of Brin romancing his much younger employee, the Daily Mail . tracked down a distinctly unsurprised former boyfriend of Miss Rosenberg . – who said she ‘knew the power of her womanly ways’. Ewan Butler, . 28, a trainee teacher living with his parents in Darlington, said: . ‘Amanda’s a good looking girl, and she knows she is.' A good looking girl... 'who knows she is': Miss Rosenberg, shown left wearing the Google Glass device and right in a picture from her Google+ profile, previously dated Ewan Butler, . 28, a trainee teacher living from Darlington . Employee: Miss Rosenberg pictured in a YouTube marketing video for Google Glass. She won her role promoting the controversial spectacles after coming up with the voice command ‘Ok, Glass’ to . activate them . Connected but no longer together: Brin and his estranged wife are bound together by business dealings - he is an investor in her DNA company 23andMe - and the children they share. Power couple: If Brin and Wojcicki, his wife of six years, divorce, Californian law suggests their . massive fortune would have to be halved - although they reportedly . signed a strict pre-nuptial agreement . Marriage on the rocks: A Google spokesman confirmed that Brin – one of the . world’s richest men – has for several months . been living apart from Wojcicki, the mother . of his two children . 'And she’s good at . “playing” men – she played me.’ Brin’s relationship with Miss Rosenberg . emerged only yesterday – but the pair were pictured together earlier . this year at a New York Fashion Week event, both wearing the . controversial Google Glass computerised spectacles for which she is . marketing manager. An employee of Google since she graduated with a . communications degree from Leeds University, she initially worked for . the internet giant in London before last year moving to San Francisco to . work at its Silicon Valley nerve centre. She soon won a role . promoting Google Glass, widely criticised as the glasses which enable . users to film and broadcast over the internet everything they see . non-stop, worrying privacy campaigners. Miss Rosenberg wrote an . online blog soon after she arrived – describing herself as a . ‘misanthropic Brit struggling to come to terms with Californian . optimism’. She wrote: ‘I’d been living a beautifully choreographed . life in London for pretty much my entire life; family, friends, job, . life. Then one day I realised the beauty had faded. ‘So I applied for a transfer with my company to a different country. Yes! The romance of a transfer! ‘Luckily for me this all worked out like I dreamed it would...NOT. Of course it didn’t work out like that! ‘I . remember having conversations with people about moving countries, and . no one talks about how it felt to be alone. 'I wanted to grab them and . scream “Why are you not telling me about how you ate lunch in the . toilets at work for the first week because no one talked to you?”.’ Miss . Rosenberg also wrote that she was initially so . shy she failed to turn up at her first work drinks invitation, fearing . she would be ‘the weird loner in the corner’, so stayed in eating . biscuits alone on her sofa instead. In an internet profile Miss . Rosenberg wrote of herself: ‘I’m part of the master race that is the . Chinese Jew or Chew, if you will. 'Born in Hong Kong but bred in the UK. A . misanthrope who’s bad at maths, so I got the worst of both worlds.’ More than a marketing manager: Miss Rosenberg also appears in promotional shots for Google Glass . California dreamin': Amanda wrote on her blog that she was initially so shy in her new role in Google's Silicon Valley HQ she failed to turn up at her first work drinks invitation, fearing she would be 'the weird loner in the corner' Mixed-race heritage: Miss Rosenberg is understood to have an English father and a Hong Kong . Chinese mother. She describes herself as 'part of the master race that is the . Chinese Jew or Chew, if you will' Geek chic: Miss Rosenberg's blog details how she made every effort to fit in with Google's in-crowd . Past romance: Hugo Barra and Amanda Rosenberg were said to have been in a relationship . Celebrity lifestyle: Miss Rosenberg poses with British rapper and iconic glasses-wearer Tinie Tempah . Romantic link: Hugo Barra, Google's product management director for Android. Miss Rosenberg was previously linked to the Google executive, who recently announced he was leaving the firm to take a job in China . Miss Rosenberg is understood to have an English father and a Hong Kong . Chinese mother who worked as an investment banker. Last night Miss Rosenberg – who got her . Google Glass job after coming up with the voice command ‘Ok, Glass’ to . activate the device - could not be contacted for comment. A spokesman . for Brin – who founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 – said that he . was not legally separated from his wife and that ‘they remain good . friends and partners’.
Employees advised to think about whether relationship would embarrass company or harm their reputation .
Amanda Rosenberg previously linked to another company executive .
Google co-founder is one of the world's richest men with $23bn fortune .
He and wife Anne Wojcicki, both 40, married in 2007 and have two children .
Miss Rosenberg went to the same $48,000-a-year school as the Middletons .
She is marketing manager for Google's Glass computerised spectacles .
27-year-old came up with the 'Ok, Glass' command to activate the device .
By . Neil Sears . and David Gardner . and Jessica Jerreat . The relationship between Google co-founder Sergey Brin and the company's marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg may have broken the Internet giant's company code. Miss Rosenberg, who is credited with coming up with the 'OK, Glass' command for Google Glass was named as the new . lover of Brin, 40, yesterday. Google has been rocked by talk of the . romance, and a spokesman yesterday confirmed that Brin – one of the . world’s richest men with a $23 billion fortune – has for several months . been living apart from his wife of six years, and mother of his two children, Anne Wojcicki. Glasses promotion: Rosenberg with boss Brin and fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg in New York . It is not known how long Miss Rosenberg, who was educated at the $48,000-a-year Marlborough College, the same school as the Middletons, has been dating Brin. An unnamed source told the New York Post Brin and his wife were 'still together when Amanda entered the picture'. It is possible the relationship violated Google's company code. Google gossip: Amanda Rosenberg is the . 27-year-old British woman who has struck up a romance with billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin . An online version of the code states: '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'. It added: 'If . a romantic relationship does create an actual or apparent conflict, it . may require changes to work arrangements or even the termination of . employment of either or both individuals involved.' Google goes on to offer a self-test to help employees decide if their relationship could cause a problem. '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? '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.' Brin is not the first Google executive Miss Rosenberg has been linked to since she transferred to the San Francisco offices last year. She was linked to Hugo Barra, who resigned this week to take a job with Android phone maker Xiaomi in China. His departure comes after 'a recent thorny personal situation related to the end of a romantic relationship he had with another Googler,' the New York Post reported. 'Relationships between senior executives and more-junior employees raise myriad concerns,' James McRitchie, publisher of Corporate Governance, said. 'Dating a subordinate is generally a bad idea, from the company's perspective,' he told Yahoo Finance, adding that it had the potential to damage morale or violate confidentiality. Should Brin and his wife divorce, Californian law suggests their . massive fortune would have to be halved – although they reportedly . signed a strict pre-nuptial agreement. While the internet was agog . with talk of Brin romancing his much younger employee, the Daily Mail . tracked down a distinctly unsurprised former boyfriend of Miss Rosenberg . – who said she ‘knew the power of her womanly ways’. Ewan Butler, . 28, a trainee teacher living with his parents in Darlington, said: . ‘Amanda’s a good looking girl, and she knows she is.' A good looking girl... 'who knows she is': Miss Rosenberg, shown left wearing the Google Glass device and right in a picture from her Google+ profile, previously dated Ewan Butler, . 28, a trainee teacher living from Darlington . Employee: Miss Rosenberg pictured in a YouTube marketing video for Google Glass. She won her role promoting the controversial spectacles after coming up with the voice command ‘Ok, Glass’ to . activate them . Connected but no longer together: Brin and his estranged wife are bound together by business dealings - he is an investor in her DNA company 23andMe - and the children they share. Power couple: If Brin and Wojcicki, his wife of six years, divorce, Californian law suggests their . massive fortune would have to be halved - although they reportedly . signed a strict pre-nuptial agreement . Marriage on the rocks: A Google spokesman confirmed that Brin – one of the . world’s richest men – has for several months . been living apart from Wojcicki, the mother . of his two children . 'And she’s good at . “playing” men – she played me.’ Brin’s relationship with Miss Rosenberg . emerged only yesterday – but the pair were pictured together earlier . this year at a New York Fashion Week event, both wearing the . controversial Google Glass computerised spectacles for which she is . marketing manager. An employee of Google since she graduated with a . communications degree from Leeds University, she initially worked for . the internet giant in London before last year moving to San Francisco to . work at its Silicon Valley nerve centre. She soon won a role . promoting Google Glass, widely criticised as the glasses which enable . users to film and broadcast over the internet everything they see . non-stop, worrying privacy campaigners. Miss Rosenberg wrote an . online blog soon after she arrived – describing herself as a . ‘misanthropic Brit struggling to come to terms with Californian . optimism’. She wrote: ‘I’d been living a beautifully choreographed . life in London for pretty much my entire life; family, friends, job, . life. Then one day I realised the beauty had faded. ‘So I applied for a transfer with my company to a different country. Yes! The romance of a transfer! ‘Luckily for me this all worked out like I dreamed it would...NOT. Of course it didn’t work out like that! ‘I . remember having conversations with people about moving countries, and . no one talks about how it felt to be alone. 'I wanted to grab them and . scream “Why are you not telling me about how you ate lunch in the . toilets at work for the first week because no one talked to you?”.’ Miss . Rosenberg also wrote that she was initially so . shy she failed to turn up at her first work drinks invitation, fearing . she would be ‘the weird loner in the corner’, so stayed in eating . biscuits alone on her sofa instead. In an internet profile Miss . Rosenberg wrote of herself: ‘I’m part of the master race that is the . Chinese Jew or Chew, if you will. 'Born in Hong Kong but bred in the UK. A . misanthrope who’s bad at maths, so I got the worst of both worlds.’ More than a marketing manager: Miss Rosenberg also appears in promotional shots for Google Glass . California dreamin': Amanda wrote on her blog that she was initially so shy in her new role in Google's Silicon Valley HQ she failed to turn up at her first work drinks invitation, fearing she would be 'the weird loner in the corner' Mixed-race heritage: Miss Rosenberg is understood to have an English father and a Hong Kong . Chinese mother. She describes herself as 'part of the master race that is the . Chinese Jew or Chew, if you will' Geek chic: Miss Rosenberg's blog details how she made every effort to fit in with Google's in-crowd . Past romance: Hugo Barra and Amanda Rosenberg were said to have been in a relationship . Celebrity lifestyle: Miss Rosenberg poses with British rapper and iconic glasses-wearer Tinie Tempah . Romantic link: Hugo Barra, Google's product management director for Android. Miss Rosenberg was previously linked to the Google executive, who recently announced he was leaving the firm to take a job in China . Miss Rosenberg is understood to have an English father and a Hong Kong . Chinese mother who worked as an investment banker. Last night Miss Rosenberg – who got her . Google Glass job after coming up with the voice command ‘Ok, Glass’ to . activate the device - could not be contacted for comment. A spokesman . for Brin – who founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 – said that he . was not legally separated from his wife and that ‘they remain good . friends and partners’.
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