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Google Management
Co-founders Larry Page, president of Products, and Sergey Brin,
president of Technology, brought Google to life in September 1998.
Since then, the company has grown to more than 10,000 employees
worldwide, with a management team that represents some of the most
experienced technology professionals in the industry. Eric Schmidt
joined Google as chairman and chief executive officer in 2001.
Board of Directors
Operating Committee
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Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
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Larry Page, Co-Founder and President, Products
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Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and President, Technology
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Nikesh Arora, President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development
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Laszlo Bock, Vice President, People Operations
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Shona L. Brown, Senior Vice President, Business Operations, Google Inc.
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W. M. Coughran, Jr., Senior Vice President, Engineering
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David C. Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
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Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Research
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Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations and Google Fellow
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Jeff Huber, Senior Vice President, Engineering
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Omid Kordestani, Senior Advisor, Office of the CEO and Founders
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Patrick Pichette, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management
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Rachel Whetstone, Vice President, Public Policy and Communications
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Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management
Key executives by function:
Engineering
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Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
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Stuart Feldman, Vice President, Engineering
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Jen Fitzpatrick, Vice President, Engineering
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Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer
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Vic Gundotra, Vice President, Engineering
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Udi Manber, Vice President, Engineering
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Nelson Mattos, Vice President, Engineering, EMEA
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Brian McClendon, Vice President, Engineering
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Cosmos Nicolaou, Vice President, Engineering
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Sridhar Ramaswamy, Vice President, Engineering
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Andy Rubin, Vice President, Engineering
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Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives
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Benjamin Sloss Treynor, Vice President, Engineering
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Linus Upson, Vice President, Engineering
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Jeff Dean, Google Fellow
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Sanjay Ghemawat, Google Fellow
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Amit Singhal, Google Fellow
Products
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John Hanke, Vice President, Product Management
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Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product Management
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Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management
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Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience
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Neal Mohan, Vice President, Product Management
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Sundar Pichai, Vice President, Product Management
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Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management
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Stephanie Tilenius, Vice President, eCommerce
Sales
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Daniel Alegre, Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan
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Carlo d'Asaro Biondo, Vice President, Southern and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (SEEMEA)
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Francoise Brougher, Vice President, Global Online Sales and User Operations
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Henrique de Castro, Vice President, Global Media and Platforms
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Margo Georgiadis, Vice President, Global Sales Operations
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Dave Girouard, President, Enterprise
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John Herlihy, Vice President, Global Ad Operations
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Claire Hughes Johnson, Vice President, Global Online Sales
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Sanjay Kapoor, Vice President, Search Partnerships
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Dr. John Liu, Vice President, Sales, Greater China
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Michael Lock, Vice President, Enterprise Sales
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Norio Murakami, Chairman, Google Japan
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Penry Price, Vice President, Global Agency and Industry Development
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Philipp Schindler, Vice President, Northern and Central Europe
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Amit Singh, Vice President, International Sales and Operations, Enterprise
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Lorraine Twohill, Vice President, Global Marketing
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Dennis Woodside, Vice President, Americas Operations
Legal
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David Lawee, Vice President, Corporate Development
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Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org
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Matt Sucherman, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
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Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel
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Nicole Wong, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Business Operations
Finance
People Operations
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Liane Hornsey, Vice President, People Operations – Sales and Business Development
Google.org
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Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org
Operating Committee
 | Eric Schmidt Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Since joining Google in 2001, Eric Schmidt has helped grow the
company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global enterprise. Under his
leadership, Google has dramatically scaled its infrastructure and
broadened its offerings while maintaining a culture of strong
innovation. His background uniquely prepares him to lead Google's
efforts toward technological solutions that focus on users. With
founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and the rest of the executive
team, Eric oversees the company's technical and business strategy.
Prior to joining Google, Eric was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and
Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the
development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology.
Earlier in his career, Eric was a member of the research staff at Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and held positions at Bell
Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical
engineering from Princeton University as well as a master's and Ph.D.
in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Eric is a member of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as
a fellow in 2007. Eric also chairs the board of the New America
Foundation.
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 | Larry Page Co-Founder and President, Products
Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more
than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as
president of products in April 2001. He continues to share
responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with Eric Schmidt and
Sergey Brin.
The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Dr.
Carl Victor Page, Larry's love of computers began at age six. While
following in his father's footsteps in academics, he became an honors
graduate from the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's
degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering.
During his time in Ann Arbor, Larry built an inkjet printer out of
Lego™ bricks.
While in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford
University, Larry met Sergey Brin, and together they developed and ran
Google, which began operating in 1998. Larry went on leave from
Stanford after earning his master's degree.
In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for
Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of
the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with
co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in
2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to
the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
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 | Sergey Brin Co-Founder and President, Technology
Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science
degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the
University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from
the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he
received his master's degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National
Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an honorary MBA from
Instituto de Empresa. It was at Stanford where he met Larry Page and
worked on the project that became Google. Together they founded Google
Inc. in 1998, and Sergey continues to share responsibility for
day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.
Sergey's research interests include search engines, information
extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large text
collections and scientific data. He has published more than a dozen
academic papers, including Extracting Patterns and Relations from
the World Wide Web; Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data
with High Dimensionality, which he published with Larry Page; Scalable Techniques for Mining Casual Structures; Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data; and Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations.
Sergey has been a featured speaker at several international
academic, business and technology forums, including the World Economic
Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. He has
shared his views on the technology industry and the future of search on
the Charlie Rose Show, CNBC, and CNNfn. In 2004, he and Larry Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight.
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 | Nikesh Arora President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development
Nikesh oversees all revenue and customer operations, as well as
marketing and partnerships. Since joining Google in 2004, he has held
several positions with the company. Most recently, he led Google's
global direct sales operations. He also developed and managed the
company's operations in the European, Middle Eastern and African
markets and was responsible for creating and expanding strategic
partnerships in those regions for the benefit of Google's growing
number of users and advertisers.
With a background as an analyst, Nikesh's main areas of focus have
been consulting, IT, marketing and finance. Prior to joining Google, he
was chief marketing officer and a member of the management board at
T-Mobile. While there, he spearheaded all product development,
terminals, brand and marketing activities of T-Mobile Europe. In 1999,
he started working with Deutsche Telekom and founded T-Motion PLC, a
mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International. Prior to
joining Deutsche Telekom, Nikesh held management positions at Putnam
Investments and Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Nikesh holds a master's degree from Boston College and an MBA from
Northeastern University, both of which were awarded with distinction.
He also holds the CFA designation. In 1989, Nikesh graduated from the
Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India with a bachelor's degree in
electrical engineering.
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 | Laszlo Bock Vice President, People Operations
Laszlo Bock leads Google's people function globally, which includes
all areas related to the attraction, development and retention of
"Googlers."
Laszlo joined Google from the General Electric Company, where most
recently he was a vice president of human resources within GE Capital
Solutions. He had earlier served as vice president of compensation and
benefits for GE Commercial Equipment Financing. Before GE, Laszlo was a
management consultant at McKinsey and Company, serving clients in the
technology, private equity and media industries on issues of
organizational design, talent acquisition and development, and cultural
transformation. Laszlo's client work also extended to broader business
growth and turnaround strategy. Earlier, he worked as a compensation
consultant at Hewitt Associates, an HR consultancy.
Laszlo earned an MBA from the Yale University School of Management
and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Pomona College.
He is on the Western Region Advisory Board of the Catalyst Group.
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 | Shona L. Brown Senior Vice President, Business Operations, Google Inc.
Shona L. Brown joined Google in 2003 and took on the responsibility
of building both the People Operations and Business Operations groups.
Prior to joining Google she was a partner at McKinsey and Company, a
management consulting company, where her focus was working with
consumer technology companies on growth, innovation and transformation.
Shona is the author of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos,
which introduced a new strategic model for competing in volatile
markets. She is a director of the following non-profit organizations:
San Francisco Jazz Organization, The Bridgespan Group and the
Exploratorium. She also serves on the board of PepsiCo.
Shona has a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering from
Carleton University in Canada, an M.A. in economics and philosophy from
Oxford University (which she attended as a Rhodes scholar), and a Ph.D.
and postdoctoral degree from Stanford University's Department of
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.
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 | W. M. Coughran, Jr. Senior Vice President, Engineering
Bill Coughran leads the broad systems infrastructure group
underlying Google's products and services, including cluster
management, storage, search systems, and a number of product
engineering efforts. He joined Google engineering in early 2003.
Throughout his extensive career in computing, Bill has been involved
with networking, secure, and distributed systems as well as
computational science and engineering. Before joining Google, Bill
co-founded and served as CEO and in other executive roles at
Entrisphere in Silicon Valley. Earlier, he was head of Bell Labs'
Computing Sciences Research Center, where C, C++, Unix, Plan 9, and
Inferno were created. He has also worked in computational science and
distributed systems.
Bill currently serves on the boards of directors for nSolutions Inc
and Clearwell Systems Inc. In addition, he is an author of more than 50
publications and has served on several scientific boards/committees and
technical advisory bodies. He has also held adjunct and visiting
positions at Stanford, the ETH, and Duke.
Bill holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University as well as degrees in mathematics from Caltech.
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 | David C. Drummond Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
David Drummond joined Google in 2002, initially as vice president of
corporate development. Today as senior vice president and chief legal
officer, he leads Google's global teams for legal, government
relations, corporate development (MandA and investment projects) and
new business development (strategic partnerships and licensing
opportunities).
David was first introduced to Google in 1998 as a partner in the
corporate transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, one
of the nation's leading law firms representing technology businesses.
He served as Google's first outside counsel and worked with Larry Page
and Sergey Brin to incorporate the company and secure its initial
rounds of financing. During his tenure at Wilson Sonsini, David worked
with a wide variety of technology companies to help them manage complex
transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings.
David earned his bachelor's degree in history from Santa Clara University and his JD from Stanford Law School.
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 | Alan Eustace Senior Vice President, Engineering and Research
Alan Eustace is one of Google's senior vice presidents of
engineering. He joined Google in the summer of 2002. Prior to Google,
Alan spent 15 years at Digital/Compaq/HP's Western Research Laboratory
where he worked on a variety of chip design and architecture projects,
including the MicroTitan Floating Point unit, BIPS – the fastest
microprocessor of its era. Alan also worked with Amitabh Srivastava on
ATOM, a binary code instrumentation system that forms the basis for a
wide variety of program analysis and computer architecture analysis
tools. These tools had a profound influence on the design of the EV5,
EV6 and EV7 chip designs. Alan was promoted to director of the Western
Research Laboratory in 1999. WRL had active projects in pocket
computing, chip multi-processors, power and energy management, internet
performance, and frequency and voltage scaling.
In addition to directing Google's engineering efforts, Alan is
actively involved in a number of Google's community-related activities
such as The Second Harvest Food Bank and the Anita Borg Scholarship
Fund.
Alan is an author of 9 publications and holds 10 patents. He earned
a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Central Florida.
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 | Urs Hölzle Senior Vice President, Operations and Google Fellow
Urs Hölzle served as the company's first vice president of
engineering and led the development of Google's technical
infrastructure. His current responsibilities include the design and
operation of the servers, networks and datacenters that power Google.
He is also renowned for both his red socks and his free-range
Leonberger, Yoshka (Google's top dog). Urs joined Google from the
University of California, Santa Barbara where he was an associate
professor of computer science. He received a master's degree in
computer science from ETH Zurich in 1988 and was awarded a Fulbright
scholarship that same year. In 1994, he earned a Ph.D. from Stanford
University, where his research focused on programming languages and
their efficient implementation.
As one of the pioneers of dynamic compilation, also known as
"just-in-time compilation," Urs invented fundamental techniques used in
most of today's leading Java compilers. Before joining Google, Urs was
a co-founder of Animorphic Systems, which developed compilers for
Smalltalk and Java. After Sun Microsystems acquired Animorphic Systems
in 1997, he helped build Javasoft's high-performance Hotspot Java
compiler.
In 1996, Urs received a CAREER award from the National Science
Foundation for his work on high-performance implementations of
object-oriented languages. He was also a leading contributor to DARPA's
National Compiler Infrastructure project. Urs has served on program
committees for major conferences in the field of programming language
implementation, and is the author of numerous scientific papers and
U.S. patents.
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 | Jeff Huber Senior Vice President, Engineering
Jeff Huber joined Google in 2003 and is a senior vice president of
engineering. In this role, Jeff leads the technology development and
innovation efforts for the company's advertising and monetization
systems, including Google's AdWords and AdSense programs.
Jeff brings more than 20 years of experience in large-scale systems
design and operation, online consumer product development, high-volume
transaction processing and engineering management.
Prior to joining Google, Jeff was vice president of architecture
and and systems development at eBay, where he championed the
development of their product search infrastructure and expansion of the
platform API program. Before eBay, Jeff was senior vice president of
engineering at Excite@Home, where he led consumer product and
infrastructure development for the largest broadband service provider.
Earlier in his career, he was a technology consultant with McKinsey
and Company, and founded a software development start-up. Jeff holds
a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of
Illinois and a master's degree from Harvard University.
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 | Omid Kordestani Senior Advisor, Office of the CEO and Founders
As senior advisor to the CEO and founders, Omid is focused on
identifying new revenue opportunities for the company. Previously, he
was senior vice president of global sales and business development, and
was directly responsible for Google's worldwide revenue generation
efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company’s sales
organization. As Google's "business founder," Omid led the development
and implementation of the company's initial business model. After
joining the company in 1999, he brought Google to profitability in
record time, generating more than $10 billion in revenue in 2006.
Omid has more than 20 years of high-technology consumer and
enterprise experience, holding key positions at several start-ups,
including Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. As vice president
of business development and sales, he grew Netscape's online revenue
from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18
months. Prior to Netscape, he held positions in marketing, product
management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation
and Hewlett-Packard.
Omid received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State
University.
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 | Patrick Pichette Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Patrick Pichette is Google's chief financial officer. He has nearly
20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the
telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which
he joined in 2001 as executive vice president of planning and
performance management. During his time at Bell Canada, he held various
executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and
was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications
network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based
infrastructure. Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at
McKinsey and Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North
American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief
financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian
telecommunications company.
Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from
Université du Québec à Montréal. He holds a master's degree in
philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, where he
attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers
Without Borders (Canada).
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 | Jonathan Rosenberg Senior Vice President, Product Management
Jonathan Rosenberg is an industry veteran who oversees the teams
that manage Google's innovative product portfolio and go-to-market
strategies. In this role, Jonathan oversees the design, creation and
improvement of all of Google's products, from consumer offerings to
publisher and business services. He directs the teams with a special
focus on delivering exceptional user experience, continuous innovation,
and highly relevant, accountable, and untraditional marketing.
Prior to joining Google in 2002, Jonathan founded, led and managed
some of the most innovative product development teams of the Internet's
first era. He was the founding member of @Home's product group and
served as senior vice president of online products and services after
the merger of Excite and @Home. Prior to that, Jonathan managed the
eWorld product line for Apple Computer. Earlier, he was director of
product marketing for Knight Ridder Information Services in Palo Alto,
California, where he directed development of one of the first
commercially deployed online relevance ranking engines and menu-driven
Boolean search services for consumers.
Jonathan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a
bachelor's degree with honors in economics from Claremont McKenna
College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
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 | Rachel Whetstone Vice President, Public Policy and Communications
Rachel Whetstone joined Google in 2005, after 15 years advising
senior politicians and companies on their strategic communications. She
leads the company's global teams for public policy and communications.
Rachel has a bachelor’s degree in history from Bristol University.
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 | Susan Wojcicki Vice President, Product Management
Susan Wojcicki is vice president of product management at Google
responsible for the design and innovation of all of Google's
advertising and measurement platform products, including AdWords,
AdSense, DoubleClick and Google Analytics. She has managed AdSense
product management since inception in 2002, and has led all advertising
programs on Google.com and its advertising network since 2006.
Susan joined Google in 1999 as the company's first marketing manager
and worked on the initial viral marketing programs as well as the first
Google homepage doodles. She also led the initial development of
several key successful consumer products including Google Images,
Google Books and Google Video.
Before joining Google, Susan worked at Intel and was a management
consultant at Bain and Company and R.B. Webber and Company. She
graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds a master's in
economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and an MBA
from UCLA.
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Engineering
 | Vinton G. Cerf Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for
Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and
applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company.
Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer
with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the
Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the
U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the
highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of
Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code
used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the
forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce,
communication, and entertainment."
From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior
to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of
MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role
leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet
and security technologies.
Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a
Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He
served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from
1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the
IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and
the National Academy of Engineering.
Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection
with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship,
Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the
Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander
Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association
for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer
Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications
Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees.
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 | Stuart Feldman Vice President, Engineering
Stu is responsible for engineering activities at Google’s offices in
the eastern half of the Americas. Before joining Google, he worked at
IBM for eleven years. Most recently, he was Vice President for Computer
Science in IBM Research, where he drove the long-term and exploratory
worldwide science strategy in computer science and related fields, led
programs for open collaborative research with universities, and
influenced national and global computer science policy.
Prior to that, Stu served as Vice President for Internet Technology
and was responsible for IBM strategies, standards, and policies
relating to the future of the Internet, and managed a department that
created experimental Internet-based applications. Earlier, he was the
founding Director of IBM's Institute for Advanced Commerce, which was
dedicated to creating intellectual leadership in e-commerce.
Before joining IBM in mid-1995, Stu was a computer science
researcher at Bell Labs and a research manager at Bellcore. In addition
he was the creator of Make as well as the architect for a large new
line of software products at Bellcore.
Stu did his academic work in astrophysics and mathematics and earned
his AB at Princeton and his PhD at MIT. He is President of ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery) and received the 2003 ACM
Software System Award. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the
ACM, and serves on a number of government advisory committees.
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 | Jen Fitzpatrick Vice President, Engineering
Jen leads engineering for search features at Google. Previously, she
led software development for a wide variety of Google products and
teams, including AdWords, Google News, Product Search, corporate
engineering and the Google Search Appliance. Jen was also a co-founding
member of Google's user experience team.
Jen holds a bachelor's degree in symbolic systems and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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 | Ben Fried Chief Information Officer
Ben is Chief Information Officer, overseeing the company's global
technology systems. His extensive hands-on experience in technology
includes stints as a dBASE II programmer, front-line support manager,
Macintosh developer, Windows 1.0 programmer, and Unix systems
programmer. Prior to joining Google, he spent more than 13 years in
Morgan Stanley's technology department, where he rose to the level of
Managing Director. During his time there, he led teams responsible for
software development technology, web and electronic commerce
technologies and operations, and technologies for knowledge workers.
Ben earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University.
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 | Vic Gundotra Vice President, Engineering
Vic joined Google in 2007 as a Vice President of Engineering,
responsible for mobile applications and developer evangelism. In
addition, he is responsible for product management and marketing for
mobile products at Google. He also oversees applications development.
Previously, Vic spent 15 years at Microsoft, where he worked on a
variety of products and operating systems, including Windows 3.0, NT,
Windows XP, and Vista. He was recognized by MIT as a "Young Innovator
under 35" for his work in sparking the Microsoft's change from Win32 to
the .NET programming model.
Most recently, Vic was General Manager of Microsoft's developer
outreach efforts worldwide, including evangelism and strategy for
products like Windows Vista, Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft
CRM, and Windows Mobile.
Vic holds two patents in the area of distributed computing and identity-based access to cloud resources.
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 | Udi Manber Vice President, Engineering
As a Vice President of Engineering, Udi is responsible for core
search. Before joining Google early in 2006, Udi was CEO of A9.com, a
Senior VP at Amazon.com, and Yahoo's Chief Scientist. He started
working on search algorithms in 1989 with the invention of Suffix
Arrays (with Gene Myers) while he was a professor at the University of
Arizona, and he was a co-developer of several search packages,
including Agrep, Glimpse, WebGlimpse, and Harvest. He started
developing search and other software tools for the web 2 months after
Mosaic was announced in 1993, and continued ever since. While in
academia, he also worked in the areas of theoretical computer science,
computer security, distributed systems, and networks. He won a
Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985.
Udi holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
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 | Nelson Mattos Vice President, Engineering, EMEA
Nelson joined Google in 2007, and as VP of Engineering for the EMEA
region, he is responsible for all engineering and product development
activities. Prior to joining Google, he worked in various capacities at
IBM for 15 years. Most recently, Nelson was an IBM Distinguished
Engineer and Vice-President of Information and User Technologies at IBM
Research. He led an organization of researchers worldwide who worked on
projects involving search, structured and unstructured information
processing and analytics, natural language processing, conversational
and multimodal interaction, business collaboration tools, visualization
technologies and overall user experience. He was also an IBM
Distinguished Engineer and Vice-President, Information Integration for
the IBM Software Group, for which he created a portfolio of products
that grew into a several hundred million dollar business, brought
several key technologies to market, and drove five key acquisitions in
support of this segment. Nelson's career with IBM also included key
roles in DB2 development, leading major SQL extensions, and driving
worldwide database standards; in this capacity, he contributed to the
design of SQL99 through more than 300 accepted proposals.
Prior to IBM, Nelson was an associate professor at the University of
Kaiserslautern in Germany, where he was involved in research on
object-oriented and knowledge base management systems.
Nelson received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from University of
Kaiserslautern and also holds bachelor's and master's degrees in
Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in
Brazil. He has published over 80 papers on database management and
related topics, holds 13 patents, and is the author of book, An Approach to Knowledge Base Management.
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 | Brian McClendon Vice President, Engineering
Brian leads the engineering group for Google's geo products, which
include Google Maps, Earth, Local Search, SketchUp, Street View, Ocean,
Mars and Moon. Brian joined Google in 2004 via the acquisition of
Keyhole Corporation where he was head of engineering, a founder, and a
member of the board.
Prior to Keyhole, Brian was a founder at Intrinsic Graphics and an
Engineering Director at @Home Network. Previously, he spent eight years
at Silicon Graphics developing high-end workstation 3D graphics
subsystems like GT, GTX, RealityEngine and InfiniteReality. He holds
two issued patents including the one for KML, which is now an open
standard for GIS data.
Brian has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas.
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 | Cosmos Nicolaou Vice President, Engineering
As a vice president of engineering, Cos is responsible for the
infrastructure that supports web search. Cos joined Google in 2003 and
since then has worked on a number of different properties, including
Froogle, Google Video and Google News, before spending the last three
years working on search. Prior to Google, Cos worked at a number of
start-ups, including co-founding Nemesys Research, which was sold to
FORE Systems in 1996. He later moved to the U.S. with FORE Systems in
1999. He also led the development teams for Akamai Technology's
streaming and storage teams from 1999 to 2002, when these were the
first such services to be offered at internet scale.
Cos has a bachelor's degree with first class honors from University
College London and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, both in computer
science.
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 | Sridhar Ramaswamy Vice President, Engineering
Sridhar directs engineering for Google's AdWords advertising
products. Since joining Google in 2003, Sridhar and his teams have
taken a lead role in defining the vision and direction of AdWords.
Prior to joining Google, he held several roles at E.piphany. Most
recently, he was director of engineering for the company's Analytic
Platform. Previously, he held research positions at Bell Labs, Lucent
Technologies and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).
Sridhar earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the
Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received his Ph.D. and
master's degree in computer science from Brown University. He has
published numerous papers on database systems and database theory.
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 | Andy Rubin Vice President, Engineering
Andy joined Google in 2005 is responsible for the overall product
strategy and development of the Android platform. Prior to joining
Google, Andy was founder and CEO of Android, a company he incubated as
an entrepreneur in residence at Redpoint Ventures. Android was acquired
by Google in 2005.
Previously, Andy was president and chief executive officer of Danger
Inc. where he helped create the Sidekick, one of the first consumer
data devices. Earlier, he was instrumental in building and shipping
WebTV, the first interactive television-based Internet service, which
was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. He also led the effort to ship the
Motorola Envoy, one of the first wireless PDAs for General Magic, and
helped design the first host-based software modem for Apple Computer.
Andy began his career as a software engineer for Carl Zeiss A.G., maker
of industrial and consumer optical products. He is the author of
numerous patents in wireless communications.
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 | Alfred Spector VP of Research and Special Initiatives
Alfred joined Google in 2007 and is responsible for research across
Google and also a growing collection of special initiatives, such as
open source, health, university relations and more. Alfred speaks
widely on research and innovation, and spends much time helping Google
connect to the university research community.
Previously, Alfred was vice president of strategy and technology
IBM's Software Business, and prior to that, he was vice president of
services and software research across IBM. He was also founder and CEO
of Transarc Corporation, a pioneer in distributed transaction
processing and wide area file systems, and was an associate professor
of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in
highly reliable, highly scalable distributed computing.
Alfred received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford and a
bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard. He is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, the IEEE and the ACM. Alfred is also the
recipient of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society's Tsutomu Kanai Award for
work in scalable architectures and distributed systems.
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 | Benjamin Sloss Treynor Vice President, Engineering
Ben joined Google as Site Reliability Tsar in 2003. In that role he
has led the development and operations of Google's production software
infrastructure, network, and major user-facing services.
Earlier, Ben held engineering management roles at Seven Networks as
Vice President of Engineering, at E.piphany as an engineering director,
and at Versant Object Technology, in roles ranging from individual
contributor to Vice President of RandD. Ben started his career at
Oracle at age 17 as a software engineer.
Ben holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from
Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of California-
Berkeley Haas School of Business.
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 | Linus Upson Vice President, Engineering
Linus Upson joined Google in 2005 and is currently a vice president
of engineering overseeing Google's browser products including Chrome
and Chrome OS. Prior to Google, Linus was an engineer NeXT and Netscape
and founded two companies, AvantGo and Qurb.
Linus is on an extended leave from his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Princeton University.
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 | Jeff Dean Google Fellow
Jeff joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Fellow working
in the Systems Infrastructure Group. Jeff has designed and implemented
large portions of the company's advertising, crawling, indexing and
query serving systems, along with various pieces of the distributed
computing infrastructure that sits underneath most of Google's
products. At various times, Jeff has also worked on improving search
quality, statistical machine translation, and various internal software
development tools, and he has had significant involvement in the
engineering hiring process.
Prior to joining Google, Jeff was at DEC/Compaq's Western Research
Laboratory, where he worked on profiling tools, microprocessor
architecture, and information retrieval. Earlier, he worked at the
World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, developing
software for statistical modeling and forecasting of the HIV/AIDS
pandemic.
Jeff is an author of more than 20 publications and a co-inventor on
more than 25 patents. He earned a B.S. in computer science and
economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Minnesota and
received a Ph.D. and a M.S. in computer science from the University of
Washington. In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering, which recognized his work on "the science and engineering
of large-scale distributed computer systems."
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 | Sanjay Ghemawat Google Fellow
Sanjay works on the distributed computing infrastructure that is
used by most Google products. He has led the design and implementation
of various storage systems (GFS, Bigtable), a batch processing system
(MapReduce), networking libraries, data representation languages,
memory management systems, and various performance measurement tools.
Previously, Sanjay was a researcher at DEC's Systems Research
Center, where he worked on performance measurement tools, Java virtual
machines, and Java compilers.
Sanjay earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell as well as a Ph.D.
and M.S. from MIT, all in computer science. He is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering.
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 | Amit Singhal Google Fellow
Amit Singhal has worked in the field of search for over fifteen
years, first as an academic researcher and now as Google engineer. His
research interests include information retrieval, its application to
web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. At
Google, Amit works with the Search Quality team, the team responsible
for Google's search algorithms. Prior to joining Google in 2000, Amit
was a senior member of technical staff at ATandT Labs.
Amit has an undergraduate degree in India from IIT, Roorkee, a MS
from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from Cornell University,
all in Computer Science. At Cornell, he studied Information Retrieval
with the late Gerard Salton, one of the founders of the field. Amit has
co-authored more than thirty scientific papers and numerous patents.
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Products
 | John Hanke Vice President, Product Management
John leads product management for Google's geo products, which
include Maps, Earth, Local Search, Transit, Street View, SketchUp and
special initiatives such as Google Ocean and Sky. He came to Google in
2004 through the acquisition by Google of his company, Keyhole, whose
technology was the basis of Google Earth. Long committed to global
access for geo information, since joining Google he has overseen the
global roll-out of Maps, Earth and Local.
Prior to joining Google, John was an entrepreneur who co-founded Big
Network as well as Keyhole. John received his MBA from UC Berkeley in
2004. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at
Austin, where he graduated magna cum laude with Special Honors in Plan
II. John is an executive fellow at the UC Berkeley Haas School of
Business.
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 | Bradley Horowitz Vice President, Product Management
Bradley oversees product management for Google Apps, including
Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Docs, Blogger and
Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo's advanced development
division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes, and drove
the acquisition of products such as Flickr and MyBlogLog. Previously,
he was Co-Founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical
direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual
acquisition by Autonomy.
Bradley holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the
University of Michigan, and a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab
and was pursuing his Ph.D. there when he co-founded Virage.
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 | Salar Kamangar Vice President, Product Management
Salar is vice president of Google's web applications, including
Gmail, Talk, Calendar, Reader, Orkut, Blogger, Picasa, Video, Docs,
Spreadsheets, Presentations and Checkout. Previously, he was vice
president of product management for Google's advertising and
monetization products, including the AdWords program, which he defined
with a small engineering team. Prior to that, Salar created the
company's first business plan and was responsible for its legal and
finance functions. He then became a founding member of Google's product
team, working on consumer projects such as the acquisition of DejaNews
and the subsequent launch of Google Groups.
Salar earned his bachelor's degree in biological sciences with honors from Stanford University.
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 | Marissa Mayer Vice President, Search Products and User Experience
Marissa leads the company's product management efforts on search
products – web search, images, news, books, products, maps, Google
Earth, Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Health, Google Labs and
more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and
led the user interface and web server teams at that time. Her efforts
have included designing and developing Google's search interface,
internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google
News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and
products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in
artificial intelligence and interface design. In her spare time,
Marissa also organizes Google Movies – outings a few times a year to
see the latest blockbusters – for 6,000+ people (employees plus family
and friends).
Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught
introductory computer programming classes at Stanford to more than
3,000 students. Stanford has recognized her with the Centennial
Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award for her outstanding contribution
to undergraduate education.
Marissa has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future"), Red Herring ("15 Women to Watch"), Business 2.0 ("Silicon Valley Dream Team"), BusinessWeek, and Fast Company. In 2008, at 33, Marissa became the youngest woman ever to be included on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list (#50).
Graduating with honors, Marissa received her bachelor's degree in
symbolic systems and her master's degree in computer science from
Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial
intelligence. She also holds an honorary doctorate of engineering from
Illinois Institute of Technology.
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 | Neal Mohan Vice President, Product Management
Neal is vice president of product management, responsible for
Google's portfolio of AdSense for Content and DoubleClick platform
products. This includes our innovation efforts in display advertising,
emerging ad formats, and social media monetization. Prior to Google, he
was senior vice president of strategy and product development at
DoubleClick, building the company's strategic plan, leading the product
management team in its execution, and growing the business rapidly.
Previously, Neal held various leadership positions at DoubleClick
and NetGravity in technology development, business operations, and
client services. In this process he played a key role in pioneering and
growing the digital marketing industry. He has also served in strategy
and consulting roles at Microsoft and Accenture.
Neal has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where
he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also has a B.S. in electrical
engineering from Stanford University.
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 | Sundar Pichai Vice President, Product Management
Sundar joined Google in 2004 and is currently a vice president of
product management. He leads the product management and innovation
efforts for a suite of Google's search and consumer products, including
iGoogle, Google Toolbar, Google Chrome, Desktop Search and Gadgets,
Google Pack, and Gears.
Sundar brings more than 12 years of experience developing high-tech
consumer and enterprise products. Before joining Google, he held
various engineering and product management positions at Applied
Materials, and was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company
for a variety of software and semiconductor clients.
Sundar received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology and
was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds an M.S. from Stanford
University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a
Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.
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 | Mario Queiroz Vice President, Product Management
Mario joined Google in 2005 and is currently responsible for product
management for the Android platform. Previously at Google, Mario led
the company’s international product management activities out of the
London office, including product strategy for non-US markets and
product development across 20 RandD centers around the world.
Earlier, Mario led Google’s global IT product strategy and development.
Prior to Google, Mario worked at Hewlett-Packard as vice president
within a global operations function, where he led the development of
key elements of HP's IT infrastructure. This followed engineering,
product management, marketing, and operations roles across different HP
businesses.
Mario currently serves on the board of directors of Metro
International, a daily newspaper published in over 100 cities around
the world. Mario holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical
engineering from Stanford University.
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 | Stephanie Tilenius Vice President, eCommerce
Stephanie is responsible for commerce at Google, including digital
content and commerce in the cloud, product search and payments. Prior
to joining Google, she was at eBay for nine years, most recently as
senior vice president of eBay North America and Global Product. As
general manager and vice president of PayPal Merchant Services,
Stephanie built PayPal's platform and business on the web from the
ground up to be used on 45 percent of websites today. She also ran eBay
Motors and eBay Asia Pacific and Latin America. Previously, Stephanie
was a co-founder of PlanetRx.com and worked at Intel, AOL, Firefly and
Alex Brown.
Stephanie is on the board of IronPlanet.com and the Harvard Business
School Research Center. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics and
a master's in finance from Brandeis, as well as an MBA from Harvard.
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Sales
 | Daniel Alegre Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan
Daniel oversees all of Google's sales and operations for the Asia
Pacific and Japan regions. Previously, he was vice president for Latin
America sales. Additionally, he oversaw APLA (Asia Pacific and Latin
America) business development, and was responsible for all
international wireless, syndication, content acquisition and reseller
strategic partnerships. Since joining Google in 2004, he has expanded
strategic partnerships, including China Mobile, AOL Europe, KDDI and
NTT Docomo.
Previously, Daniel worked for seven years at media company
Bertelsmann AG, focused mainly on offline and online music and digital
initiatives in different capacities: he was vice president of business
development of the Bertelsmann eCommerce Group in New York,
spearheading all partnerships and acquisitions for the BMG Music Clubs
and CDNow, including strategic partnerships and investments in Napster
and MyPlay; managing director of record division BMG Music in Latin
America; and director of new Internet initiatives in the company
headquarters in Guetersloh, Germany. Earlier, Daniel started and ran an
FM radio station in Mexico.
Daniel holds dual degrees from Harvard University: an MBA from
Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He
graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Princeton
University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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 | Carlo d'Asaro Biondo Vice President, Southern and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (SEEMEA)
As vice president of Southern and Eastern Europe, Middle East
and Africa, Carlo leads Google SEEMEA's advertising sales operations
and contributes to the strategic growth of Google products and services.
Most recently, Carlo was managing director for the industry sector
of Infropro Communications, a private equity-backed B2B publisher and
business intelligence provider. Carlo also previously served as CEO
International of Lagardere Active and as president of AOL Europe.
Before working for AOL, Carlo was VP and general manager,
communications and media industries EMEA for Unisys Corporation. He
also has over a decade of consulting experience with KPMG, where he
served as CEO for France. Carlo has an MBA from the University of Rome
and a post-graduate degree from Bocconi University in Italy. He has
lectured on reporting and finance topics at numerous university
graduation courses both in Rome and Paris.
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 | Francoise Brougher Vice President, Global Online Sales and User Operations
Francoise leads the team that focuses on selling and serving small
businesses at Google as well as the sales group responsible for
providing cross-channel support to advertisers, publishers, partners
and users. Previously at Google, Francoise was vice president of
Business Operations, the group that helps the company to innovate at
scale by designing business processes and solving strategic business
problems. During her tenure the group took on increasingly complex
projects such as partnering with the engineering leadership on the
operating model for the global engineering organization, working with
finance to redefine planning process and building product specific
PandL, developing a global market investment framework to invest
sales resources across the globe. She also led Google's market
development efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the company's "green"
business operations efforts such as the solar panel installation on the
Google campus.
Prior to joining Google in 2005, Francoise was vice president of
business strategy at Charles Schwab. Previously, she ran Ocean Gem, a
wholesale business that imported black pearls from South Pacific; she
also worked as a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton in
Europe and the U.S. Early in her career, she worked in manufacturing
for L'Oreal in Japan.
Francoise earned an MBA from Harvard University, and a master's in
engineering from Institut Catholique d'Arts et Metiers in France.
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 | Henrique de Castro Vice President, Global Media and Platforms
As vice president of media and platforms for Google, Henrique is
responsible for the company’s YouTube, display and platforms businesses
worldwide. Henrique joined Google in 2006 from Dell where he ran its
enterprise business in Western Europe. Prior to Dell, he worked for
McKinsey and Company and in the private equity and advertising
industries.
Henrique holds an MBA from IMD, and a master's in business administration and economics.
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 | Margo Georgiadis Vice President, Global Sales Operations
Margo is responsible for driving Google's sales operations and
strategies across regions, channels and products as well as leading the
sales technology teams which enable the successful commercialization of
Google’s products (e.g., AdWords, AdSense, display and mobile ads) with
advertisers and publishers. She also leads the company's local and
commerce businesses, working to extend services like Checkout, Google
Places and commerce search to small and large businesses alike.
Before joining Google, Margo was a principal in Synetro Capital LLC,
a private investment firm based in Chicago. She also spent five years
as the executive vice president of card products and chief marketing
officer of Discover Financial Services where she led a radical
turnaround of business performance and revitalized its rewards
leadership with award-winning new products, customer experience and
marketing. Prior to Discover, Margo was a partner at McKinsey and
Company for 15 years in London and Chicago. She was a leader in the
firm’s marketing and retail practices, and also co-founded and led the
customer acquisition and management and retail marketing practices.
She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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 | Dave Girouard President, Enterprise
Dave Girouard manages Google's growing enterprise business
worldwide. He leads a team responsible for sales, marketing, product
development and customer support. Prior to joining Google, Dave was
senior vice president of marketing and business development at Virage,
a provider of multimedia search and content management software. Dave
also founded and developed Virage's application services business. He
came to Virage from the worldwide product marketing organization at
Apple, where he spent several years in product management. Prior to
that, Dave was an associate in Booz Allen and Hamilton's Information
Technology practice in San Francisco. He started his career in
enterprise systems development and integration in the Boston office of
Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting).
Dave graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB in Engineering
Sciences and a BE in Computer Engineering. He also received an MBA from
the University of Michigan with High Distinction.
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 | John Herlihy Vice President, Global Ad Operations
As vice president of Global Ad Operations, John drives Google's
online advertising operations and support globally by providing small
business solutions to advertisers. Based at our EMEA (Europe, Middle
East and Africa) headquarters in Dublin, with teams across the globe.
John joined Google in 2005 and built its online sales and operations
channels in new and existing markets across EMEA. Previously, John held
senior management positions at several global technology companies
including First Data, PeopleSoft, Adobe Systems, Inc. and Oracle
Corporation.
John began his career as a Chartered Accountant at global
accountancy practice KPMG in its Dublin office, before relocating to
the U.S. in 1993. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from
University College Dublin and is a Qualified Chartered Accountant.
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 | Claire Hughes Johnson Vice President, Global Online Sales
Claire is responsible for Google's Online Sales channel, a global
team which acquires and provides sales and client services to hundreds
of thousands of advertisers, agencies, and advertising reseller
partners. Since joining Google in 2004, Claire has managed sales and
operations teams on both the consumer and business product sides,
including Gmail, Google Checkout and Google Apps. She led the formation
of the Consumer Operations team that today supports hundreds of
millions of active users of more than 30 consumer products.
Prior to joining Google, Claire worked in management consulting
where she provided marketing and customer strategy to large media
companies, including DirecTV, The New York Times and Dow Jones.
Claire's career began in Massachusetts state politics, working for the
Attorney General and also on gubernatorial and local state campaigns.
Between elections, Claire spent a year working in the publishing
industry on the editorial side, with Hearst Magazines.
Claire earned a bachelor's degree with honors from Brown University, and an MBA from Yale University School of Management.
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 | Sanjay Kapoor Vice President, Search Partnerships
Sanjay leads global search partnerships for Google. Previously, he
was head of Google's North American AdSense for Search business,
responsible for business development, sales and syndication with
Google's strategic partners, including AOL, IAC, eBay and Amazon. Prior
to joining Google in 2003, Sanjay was vice president of business
development at MP3.com where he led business development and partner
marketing for the company. Sanjay also held management and marketing
positions at Beyond.com and the Clorox Company. He began his career as
a strategy consultant at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting).
Sanjay holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a
bachelor's degree in quantitative economics from the University of
California, Berkeley, including a one year economics program at the
London School of Economics.
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 | Dr. John Liu Vice President, Sales, Greater China
Dr. John Liu oversees sales and business development in mainland
China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Prior to joining Google, John served six
years as CEO and president of SK Telecom in China. Earlier, he held
senior executive positions at FreeMarkets Inc. and Singapore Telecom.
In 2006, he was named one of "Ten Outstanding IT Business Leaders of
China" by the China Computer and Information Industry Development
Center. In 2007, he won the Robert Mundell World Executive Award for
achievements in China.
John earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Beijing Normal
University. He taught at the East China Normal University in Shanghai
before venturing overseas to pursue advanced studies. He completed both
his master’s degree in Operation Research and Ph.D. in
Telecommunication Network Management at the Technical University of
Denmark.
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 | Michael Lock Vice President, Enterprise Sales
Michael oversees the Americas Sales and Operations organization for
Google's Enterprise division. Since joining Google in 2005, Michael has
helped rapidly expand Google's footprint within the global Enterprise
marketplace. Currently, he is responsible for teams driving customer
acquisition of Google's Enterprise offerings in the product areas of
Search, Maps, Earth, Apps and Postini.
A 25-year veteran of the enterprise information technology industry,
Michael began his career at IBM where he held roles in the general
systems and enterprise systems divisions. He moved to Silicon Valley as
a sales and marketing executive for Oracle in the 90's and
subsequently, took positions in several Silicon Valley start-ups.
Michael played a pivotal role in the success and eventual acquisition
of Virage, a pioneer of multimedia search and content management
software.
Michael holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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 | Norio Murakami Chairman, Google Japan
Norio Murakami joined in 2003 as vice president of Google Inc. and
president and general manager of Google Japan and was responsible for
all aspects of Google's business in Japan. He became chairman of Google
Japan in 2009.
Before joining Google, Norio was president of Docent Japan, where he
established the Japanese subsidiary in 2001. He built a solid
foundation of leadership for Docent in Japan – and in the e-learning
industry generally – through many partnerships including those with
Accenture, NEC, and Works Applications.
From 1997 to 1999, Norio was president and CEO of Northern Telecom
Japan. In this capacity, he successfully merged and integrated the
company with Bay Networks Japan, whose parent company had been acquired
by Northern Telecom, and was later re-named Nortel Networks Japan. With
the transformation of the business from circuit switching to IP, Norio
increased the company's revenue and profitability to a historic high in
2000. Through mid-2001, he served as president and CEO of Nortel
Networks Japan.
Norio started his career as an engineer for minicomputer systems at
Hitachi Electronics K.K. In addition to his service at Northern
Telecom, he has held a number of management roles such as the CEO-Japan
and VP-Corporate for Informix, and as a member of the board of
directors for marketing at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Japan.
This affiliation also included a five-year assignment at DEC
headquarters in Massachusetts.
Norio graduated from Kyoto University with a B.S. in engineering.
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 | Penry Price Vice President, Global Agency and Industry Development
Penry is responsible for Google's agency and industry relationships
in the U.S., as well as aligning the company's approach to these
partners on a global basis. In a previous role at Google, he oversaw
the day-to-day operations of Google's media sales and account
management teams throughout North America, and helped develop and
manage Google's relationships with traditional advertisers, industry
contacts and advertising agencies.
Prior to joining Google in 2004, Penry was the advertising director
at Us Weekly, where he managed advertising operations and the
publication's national sales staff. Before working at Us Weekly, he
held various advertising sales positions at Rolling Stone, including
eastern advertising director. Penry began his career in advertising in
the consumer electronics group of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines.
Penry is a member of the board of advisors of Outward Bound USA, the
board of the Boston Ad Club, as well as the ad:tech North American
board of advisors. He holds a bachelor's degree from Hobart College.
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 | Philipp Schindler Vice President, Northern and Central Europe
Philipp Schindler joined Google in 2005 and oversees the company's
operations in Northern and Central Europe (NACE), including the U.K.,
Ireland, the Benelux countries, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden,
Denmark, Norway and Finland.
Before joining Google, Philipp was a senior vice president at AOL
Germany, running the company's marketing and sales activities and
serving as a member of their management board for 6 years. Within this
capacity, Philipp was responsible for one of the largest marketing and
sales budgets in the country, constantly innovating in the areas of
direct marketing, traditional brand marketing, customer relationship
management, business intelligence and data mining, and pricing. He
developed a range of major sales partnerships and a number of
internationally acknowledged marketing projects, winning several
industry awards, such as the Golden Effie. Previously he served as head
of marketing at CompuServe in Germany, a subsidiary of AOL Inc., and
also worked as an e-commerce and marketing specialist at the global AOL
headquarters in the U.S. Before joining AOL, Philipp was accepted into
the top junior talent program of Bertelsmann AG, where he focused on
new media activities within their global corporate strategy unit.
Philipp earned a Diplom Kaufmann degree with distinction from the
European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany. He is a
scholar of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and also serves on the
jury of the German Marketing Award.
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 | Amit Singh Vice President, International Sales and Operations, Enterprise
Amit Singh leads international sales and operations for Google’s
Enterprise business with responsibility for EMEA, APAC and Japan. He
joined Google in 2010 after nearly 20 years at Oracle in different
areas of the business, including product development, channel
management, sales, strategy and acquisitions. In his most recent role,
as group vice president, he led the Application Strategy Group,
responsible for applications acquisitions, shared services and product
strategy for North American Sales. He also ran sales and operations for
some of the fastest growing acquisitions at Oracle including Demantra,
G-Log, Agile, Logical Apps and Peoplesoft HR. Amit spent a decade in
various sales positions managing Applications sales organizations in
the Northeast and Midwest. He began his Oracle career in product
development, designing and building some of the first Oracle
Applications, before moving into channel management.
Amit is a graduate of Rensselaer with a master’s degree in
industrial and management engineering and a bachelor’s degree in
electrical engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.
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 | Lorraine Twohill Vice President, Global Marketing
Lorraine joined Google in 2003 and is responsible for the company's
marketing efforts globally. Her marketing programs focus on the
go-to-market strategy and adoption of all of Google's products, from
consumer offerings to business services. Previously, she led all of
Google's regional marketing activities and teams in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa.
Lorraine has 16 years experience in marketing. Before joining
Google, she was head of marketing for Opodo, the European travel portal
created by nine of Europe's leading airlines. She led the launch of the
company across Europe, bringing it to a top 3 position in all launch
markets within 2 years.
U.S. publication Advertising Age has recognized Lorraine on
the "Top 40 Under 40" Global Marketing list. She has also been cited in
the Power 100 list by U.K. magazine Marketing for the past 3
years running. Lorraine holds a joint honors degree in international
marketing and languages from Dublin City University and has been named
on the DCU Alumni Roll of Honor.
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 | Dennis Woodside Vice President, Americas Operations
Dennis joined Google in 2003 and leads the company's North American
and Latin American advertising sales and operations teams. Previously,
he oversaw Google's sales and operations in the U.K., Benelux and
Ireland. Prior to that, Dennis launched and ran Google's field
operations in Central Europe, Russia, the Middle East and North Africa.
He established offices in 10 countries including Egypt, Turkey, Russia
and Israel. Additionally, he started the company's inside sales
operation in Europe.
Prior to joining Google, Dennis was an associate partner at McKinsey
and Company, where he led operational and strategy projects for
multinational clients in the technology and media industries. Earlier,
he managed complex mergers and acquisitions in aerospace, energy, media
and finance industries. He also served as law clerk to the Honorable
Dennis G. Jacobs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in
New York.
Dennis received a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was
associate editor of the Stanford Law Review, and holds a bachelor's
degree in industrial relations from Cornell University.
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Legal
 | David Lawee Vice President, Corporate Development
As vice president of corporate development, David manages a
worldwide team responsible for all of the company's acquisitions and
investments. Previously, David was vice president of marketing, where
he managed all of Google's consumer, advertiser and partner marketing,
globally.
David brings significant entrepreneurial, general management, and
investment experience to his role. Before joining Google, David
co-founded Xfire, a leading online gaming community, where he led
product development, marketing and international business development.
Within 2 years of launch, Xfire became the fastest growing Internet
gaming site with over 5 million registered users. Xfire was sold to
Viacom in early 2006.
David's prior experience includes co-founding 3 other start-ups
including Mosaic Venture Partners, a leading Toronto-based venture
capital firm. He also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey
and Company where he served a wide variety of multi-national clients.
David holds degrees in law and philosophy from McGill University and
the University of Western Ontario respectively, as well as an MBA from
University of Chicago.
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 | Megan Smith Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org
Megan oversees teams that manage early-stage partnerships,
explorations and technology licensing. She also leads the Google.org
team, guiding strategy and developing new partnerships and internal
projects with Google's engineering and product teams. She joined Google
in 2003 and has led several of the company's acquisitions, including
Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps), and Picasa. She also
co-led the company's early work with publishers for Google Book Search.
Previously, Megan was the CEO and, earlier, COO of PlanetOut, the
leading gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender online community. Under
her leadership, PlanetOut grew tenfold in reach and revenue. Prior to
that, Megan was at General Magic for six years working on handheld
communications products and partnerships. She also worked in multimedia
at Apple Japan in Tokyo.
Over the years, Megan has contributed to a wide range of engineering
projects, such as designing an award-winning bicycle lock; working on a
space station construction research project that eventually flew on the
U.S. space shuttle; and running a field-research study on solar
cookstoves in South America. She was also a member of the MIT-Solectria
student team that designed, built, and raced a solar car in the first
cross-continental solar car race, covering 2000 miles of the Australian
outback. She was selected as one of the 100 World Economic Forum
technology pioneers for 2001 and 2002.
Megan holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mechanical
engineering from MIT, where she now serves on the board. She completed
her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab.
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 | Matt Sucherman Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Matt Sucherman is a deputy general counsel currently overseeing
Google's legal affairs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Previously, Matt ran the Corporate and Securities group at Google,
where he oversaw dozens of acquisitions and strategic transactions,
including YouTube and others.
Prior to joining Google, Matt was the COO and chief counsel at
Streampipe, a B2B rich media Internet start-up that was purchased by
Loudeye Technologies. Matt began his career as an associate at the New
York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, where he
negotiated mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures for media and
private equity clients.
Matt holds a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and a JD from the
UCLA School of Law, and is admitted to practice in New York and
California.
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 | Kent Walker Vice President and General Counsel
As General Counsel, Kent is responsible for managing Google's global
legal team and advising the company's board and management on legal
issues and corporate governance matters.
Before joining Google, Kent held senior legal positions at a number
of leading technology companies. Most recently he was Deputy General
Counsel of eBay Inc., where he managed corporate legal affairs,
litigation, and legal operations. Previously, he was Executive Vice
President of Liberate Technologies, a leading provider of interactive
services software founded by Oracle and Netscape Communications. He
also served as Associate General Counsel for Netscape and America
Online and Senior Counsel for AirTouch Communications, which was later
acquired by Vodaphone.
Earlier in his career, Kent was an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the
United States Department of Justice, where he specialized in the
prosecution of technology crimes and advised the Attorney General on
management and technology issues.
Kent has served on the boards of a number of technology industry
trade associations and is on the steering committee of the annual
Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference. He graduated magna cum
laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and graduated with
distinction from Stanford Law School.
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 | Nicole Wong Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Nicole Wong is responsible for Google’s product and regulatory
matters. Prior to joining Google, Nicole was a partner at the law firm
of Perkins Coie, LLP, where she represented traditional media and “new
media” clients, including Hearst Corporation, McClatchy Company, The
Los Angeles Times, Walt Disney Company, General Electric, Microsoft,
Amazon.com and Yahoo!. She is also a co-editor of Electronic Media and
Privacy Law Handbook (2003), which is now a collaborative digital
treatise maintained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and students
at Boalt Hall School of Law (see http://ilt.eff.org).
Nicole has served on the governing committee of the ABA
Communications Law Forum since 2001 and on the board of directors of
the First Amendment Coalition since 2007. She previously served as a
co-chair of the Practising Law Institute’s Internet Law Institute and
as a member of the San Francisco Sunshine Task Force. She was one of
the founders and the first editor-in-chief of the Asian Law Journal.
Nicole is a frequent speaker and author on issues related to law and
technology, including four appearances before the U.S. Congress
regarding Internet policy. She also has taught media and Internet law
courses as an adjunct professor at the University of California at
Berkeley, Stanford University and University of San Francisco. Nicole
received her law degree and a master’s degree in journalism from the
University of California at Berkeley.
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Business Operations
 | Kristen Gil Vice President, Business Operations
Kristen joined Google in 2007 and currently leads the Business
Operations and Strategy team, which helps the company to innovate at
scale by designing efficient business processes and solving strategic
business problems. Her team tackles projects such as global resource
allocation and investment analysis, operational strategy and readiness
for emerging and growing businesses, internal operations improvements
and organization design.
Prior to joining Google, Kristen was general manager and then senior
vice president of corporate strategy at Marketron International,
helping to turn around the software company and improve earnings
performance. She was also a management consultant at McKinsey and
Company in San Francisco, focused on improving operations at a wide
range of companies.
Kristen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's
degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Cornell
University.
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Finance
 | Brent Callinicos Vice President and Treasurer
As Vice President and Treasurer at Google, Brent is responsible for
treasury and risk management activities. He joined Google early in 2007
after 14 years at Microsoft. His most recent role there was as
Corporate Vice President and Divisional CFO for Microsoft’s Platforms
and Services Division, which encompassed the Windows, Server and MSN
business groups. He was also Microsoft’s Treasurer from 2000-2004.
Brent has received numerous awards and commendations for his leadership
at Microsoft, including a 2003 Alexander Hamilton award for Overall
Treasury Excellence. Previously, Brent worked at Walt Disney, with
financial responsibility for Walt Disney Records, and in various
treasury and financial capacities at Procter and Gamble. Aside from
his many other memberships and advisory roles, Brent served on
Washington State's Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors from
2001-2006.
Brent received a BS in business administration from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA in finance from the Kenan
Flagler school at UNC. Brent is also a CPA. He was honored with the
Distinguished MBA Alumni Award from Kenan Flagler in 2004 and cited as
a top alumnus in the Wall Street Journal and Princeton Review. In June
2009 he was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Finance"
by Treasury and Risk Magazine.
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 | Mark Fuchs Vice President of Finance and Chief Accountant
Mark is responsible for external reporting, technical accounting,
the worldwide general ledger and consolidations, and Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance and internal audit.
He joined Google in 2003 from the Securities and Exchange Commission
in Washington, D.C. He has more than 20 years of finance and accounting
experience and has held senior positions at Apple Inc., Ernst and
Young LLP, and a startup.
Mark earned a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in
Accounting from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a
Certified Public Accountant.
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 | David Radcliffe Vice President, Real Estate and Workplace Services
David joined Google in early 2006 and is responsible for managing
Google’s global real estate portfolio and workplace-related services.
Prior to Google, David was at the Trammell Crow Company, one of the
largest diversified real estate services companies in the world, where
he was senior vice president of international operations. Immediately
preceding that position, he served as group vice president of real
estate and workplace services for PeopleSoft, Inc., where he managed
PeopleSoft’s global corporate services organization as well as its real
estate and facilities functions.
David earned an MBA with a concentration in real estate and
construction management from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of
Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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 | Jason Wheeler Vice President, Finance
Jason joined Google in 2002 and currently serves as vice president
of finance. In this role, he is responsible for the finance business
partnerships with all functions and regions, as well as leading
Google's forecasting, management reporting and financial analysis
efforts. Previously, Jason built and managed the corporate FPandA
team and was most recently the head of finance for EMEA operations,
where his responsibilities covered all financial functions including
accounting and controls, financial operations and FPandA.
Before joining Google, Jason held various financial analyst
positions at Hewlett Packard, and was a management consultant with Booz
Allen Hamilton for a variety of companies in the communications, media
and technology industries.
Jason holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a bachelor's
degree in finance from Colorado State University, where he graduated
summa cum laude.
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People Operations
 | Liane Hornsey Vice President, People Operations – Sales and Business Development
Liane joined Google in 2006 and provides leadership in People
Operations across Global Sales Operations and Business Development. Her
previous roles include group people director at lastminute.com,
managing director of human resources at Ntl:Group (now Virgin Media)
and vice president of European operations at Bertelsmann Music Group.
Liane's early career was spent in sales and marketing. She is an
advisor to Cheapflights.com and holds a bachelor's degree in English
from Newcastle University.
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Google.org
 | Megan Smith Vice President, New Business Development, and General Manager, Google.org
Megan oversees teams that manage early-stage partnerships,
explorations and technology licensing. She also leads the Google.org
team, guiding strategy and developing new partnerships and internal
projects with Google's engineering and product teams. She joined Google
in 2003 and has led several of the company's acquisitions, including
Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps), and Picasa. She also
co-led the company's early work with publishers for Google Book Search.
Previously, Megan was the CEO and, earlier, COO of PlanetOut, the
leading gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender online community. Under
her leadership, PlanetOut grew tenfold in reach and revenue. Prior to
that, Megan was at General Magic for six years working on handheld
communications products and partnerships. She also worked in multimedia
at Apple Japan in Tokyo.
Over the years, Megan has contributed to a wide range of engineering
projects, such as designing an award-winning bicycle lock; working on a
space station construction research project that eventually flew on the
U.S. space shuttle; and running a field-research study on solar
cookstoves in South America. She was also a member of the MIT-Solectria
student team that designed, built, and raced a solar car in the first
cross-continental solar car race, covering 2000 miles of the Australian
outback. She was selected as one of the 100 World Economic Forum
technology pioneers for 2001 and 2002.
Megan holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mechanical
engineering from MIT, where she now serves on the board. She completed
her master's thesis work at the MIT Media Lab.
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