Google Office Hour Mentors

Alan Wayne
Principal International Growth Consultant

Alan provides advisory services to Google’s top Education & Careers clients to both help accelerate their global growth and to drive international advertising revenue for Google ($XXXM per quarter & $XB+ to date). He partners with C-level execs to formulate, refine & implement international expansion strategies, including usage of Google products & services in order to meet their business objectives & grow their business. Adam leads International + Video efforts. He is the ex-Global Product Strategy Lead for YouTube Brand Measurement solutions and Analytical Lead for the Media & Entertainment Industry at Google. Currently, Adam is pursing a Master's at Brown University.

Annie Luo
UX Researcher

Annie is a UX researcher on Consumer Shopping at Google, building the future of Commerce. She has 3+ years of experience in user research, with a focus on uncovering emergent user needs and building early-stage consumer products. She is experienced in running user studies, prototyping, leading design sprints, and identifying key information gaps in product development. She loves bridging behavioral science and human-centered design to inspire product innovation and has worked at a smart home startup before joining Google.

Aparna Satoor
Sr. Interaction Designer

Aparna is a UX designer with over a decade of experience shipping meaningful solutions for complex problems in domains like data visualization, financial & operational planning, AI and most recently Cloud. Aparna enjoys helping teams and organizations to tackle their challenges from a customer-centric lens through Design Thinking workshops. She loves to explore new methodologies to tackle problems and is always up to discuss all things design.

Austin Fisher
Senior UX Content Designer

Austin is a Senior UX Content Designer on the Material Design guidelines team. He has 7 years of experience in UX Writing and Content Design, with a focus in Information Architecture, Interaction Design, and high-level UX Strategy. He's been working at Google for 6 years, previously on Stadia, making it easy to develop and publish video games on the cloud, and currently on Google Design Platform, expanding the Material design system's structure to adapt to the ever-growing amount of devices and best practices.

He started his roots in a UX design program at the University of Waterloo (Global Business and Digital Arts), and was a copywriter for tech blogs — then merged those skills into UX Writing at Sun Life for their consumer web and mobile sites. He's designed and written for big & small products, new features & system upgrades, and consumer & enterprise users.

Barbara Amoros
AI Engineer


For over three years, Barbara has provided hands-on support to Google Cloud customers, focusing on solving complex implementation challenges and designing efficient AI platforms. Her focus is on rapid deployment of solutions while maintaining best practice standards, enabling customers to achieve their goals faster.

Brooke Simon
Recruiting Manager

Brooke has over 10 years of Talent Acquisition experience, with the last 5 leading and managing high-performing recruiting teams at Google. Brooke started her recruiting career at a boutique staffing firm in Silicon Valley where she primarily worked with early and growth stage startups to build and scale their teams. She has also volunteered as a business advisor to entrepreneurs in need of HR and talent-related support.

Daniel Marquez
Product Strategy & Operations Senior Principal, Cloud GeoExpansion
 

Daniel is currently working on Google Cloud's global expansion infrastructure and go strategy. Before this role, Daniel was with Amazon Web Services in their international strategic planning organization, covering and supporting AWS go to market efforts in Latin America. Some areas of expertise include: cloud, strategic planning, go to market design, project and stakeholder management, business writing, cloud infrastructure, Latin America policy landscape.

Daowz Sutasirisap
Senior UX Designer

Daowz is currently a Senior Interaction Designer at Google with over 10 years of experience in UX. Prior to this role, as a UX manager at Indeed Incubator, she managed their 5 start-up products, mentoring teams as they brought products from zero-to-one. Daowz also led the GenAI Lab for Indeed, championing the human-centered AI approach.

Emmanuel Awa

Technical Solution Architect, Generative AI

Emmanuel is a Generative AI Solutions Architect and Applied AI Engineer at Google with over 12 years of experience in the AI field. He currently focuses on building enterprise-grade solution frameworks using Vertex AI first party foundation models and commercializing research to enhance customer-facing and internal workflows with Generative AI. Prior to Google, Emmanuel worked at Microsoft, where he developed and deployed machine learning and deep learning models for various domains, including enhancing the Bing Ads Campaign Platform with NLP capabilities. He is passionate about creative mediums like photography and documentary filmmaking, driving innovation with AI, collaborating to create value for customers, and actively engaged in personal and professional coaching, real estate investments, and mentoring.

Ezequiel Aranda
Strategy & Operations Manager

 

Ezequiel worked for 3 years in Strategy Consulting in EMEA before joining Google 8 years ago. Within Google, Ezequiel has worked 2 years in Sales Operations for Google Ads in Google Ireland, 2 years in Product Operations at Pixel in MTV and 4 years as a Strategy & Operations Manager at Google Cloud within Sales Ops for Startup sales in GCP.

Fergus Hurley

Co-Founder & GM of Checks

Fergus has been involved in 0 to 1 product development for 10+ years with a focus on AI & ML for consumer and developer/enterprise/SaaS products. He is currently the Co-Founder & GM of Checks which is a startup within Google Labs that has created a platform to simplify privacy & reduce risk for app developers.

Hader Ceron

Cloud Strategic Engineer

Hader is a seasoned Software and Cloud Architect with extensive experience across the entire software development lifecycle, including software development and DevOps. His industry experience spans banking, healthcare, and telecommunications, with a particular focus on e-commerce and retail for nearly 6 years. Currently, Hader is involved in Application Modernization on GCP, specializing in API Management, Serverless, Microservices, GKE, and Cloud Native Development. He's also actively exploring Generative AI application development using tools like Vertex AI Agent Builder and open-source frameworks such as Langchain.

Jason Chase

Technical Lead/Manager

Jason leads a Chrome team to ensure there are reliable metrics to capture real world user experience on the web. Before Google, Jason spent 10+ years leading and growing agile teams to deliver great products and systems on the web, including SaaS, enterprise software, and custom solutions. Jason has a wide range of experience in startups, interacting with customers from small client consultations up to multi-year engagements with Canada’s largest financial institutions. Above all, Jason wants to improve the web so users have better experiences and broader opportunities.

Jessica Osaki
Head of Partner GTM Shared Services

Jessica serves as the Head of Shared GTM Services for the Google Cloud Partner focused on building scaled operations to accelerate growth. Prior to joining Google, Jessica held roles at Blackbaud, Vanderbilt University and Medical Center and her own consultancy, Mar Vista Group. Her consultancy with early stage (pre-investment) technology teams to strategize their first rounds of investment and define their commercialization strategy. Additionally, Jessica spent her pre-MBA career working at the intersection of technology and social good working with social entrepreneurs and nonprofits to grow their organizations.

Jiaxi Zhu

Head of Program Insights and Analytics

Jiaxi has 10+ years of experience in GTM, with a focus on applying advanced analytics to inform customer engagement, resource allocation, and customer segmentation. He has a deep understanding of developing sophisticated models and translating data into business insights. Before joining Google, Jiaxi was a business technology consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he advised C-suite executives on new market entry, digital transformation, and product personalization across financial, consumer and B2B tech sectors.

John Bodolai

Field Sales Rep (FSR)

Former VP of Sales/Marketing with several tech start ups developing go to market plans, customer acquisition strategies. I was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ryerson University DMZ (Incubator program) to coach start ups.

Jyotishman Sharma

Strategy and Operations Lead

Jyotishman is a computer science engineer and strategy professional working in Google's gTech org helping business leaders drive decision-making within the org. Currently, he focuses on driving a large-scale, cross-functional project to deliver Privacy-focused solutions to Google's Ads customers. Jyotishman also helps leadership with setting a vision and strategy, and helping translate them into execution. Prior to Google, Jyotishman has spent time in consulting advising business leaders on enterprise strategy, product launches, and on building operations focused on scaling. Jyotishman started his career as a SW developer building enterprise SaaS applications focused on infrastructure management.

Mike Walker
AI/ML Specialist

Since joining Google in 2017, Mike has hundreds of companies ranging from startups to global leaders like P&G, Reddit, and Mayo Clinic adopt Google Cloud Platform. Mike has 25+ years of IT & Software experience and his current role is helping clients build and use Google's AI and Analytics solutions to transform their business.

Nikhil Gandhi

Software Engineer

Nikhil has 20 years of software development and leadership experience in Embedded, Cloud technologies. He has co-founded, ran and exited SAAS startup. His most recent role at Google is being a Software Engineering Manager for a GPU team, managing a team of SWE to deploy GPU infrastructure in GCP.

Rebecca Co-Yang

Product Manager @YouTube

Rebecca is a Product Manager at YouTube Podcasts, where she leads the development ML-based solutions to improve search and library quality. Her product management expertise spans software (Google Search and YouTube) and hardware (Pixel phones), complemented by a diverse background in B2B/B2C roles across cloud architecture, software engineering, and data analysis. This breadth of experience enables her to tackle the multifaceted challenges faced by startups. Having mentored startups in Australia and Southeast Asia, she brings a strategic, problem-solving approach to help founders build and scale impactful products.

Ruchi Mahajan

Staff Designer, UX Manager

Ruchi is a design leader with 18+ years of experience across domains and geographies. She works at the intersection of product strategy, user experience design, and human insights to solve complex business problems.

Swapnil Suraj
Technical Program Manager

Swapnil currently works on high performance accelerators on GCP as a TPM. He has worked in a startup focused on developing groundbreaking compiler and platforms for next gen accelerators. Swapnil has also worked on strategies for quantization/workload optimization for LLama 3.

Tannis McKenna

Global Account Executive

Tannis has over 15 years of experience empowering businesses to unlock their potential through digital marketing and innovative brand strategies. With deep expertise in Google platforms and a keen understanding of the tools available to startups, she has guided companies in building impactful brands and achieving their growth objectives. In her most recent global role, Tannis has supported markets worldwide in uniting under a cohesive, scalable brand vision. As a current Wharton MBA candidate, she combines strategic insight with a genuine passion for helping startups thrive, positioning her as a trusted partner for ambitious entrepreneurs seeking to scale their businesses authentically.

Tarun Sharma

Partner Solutions Architect - Security & Web3

Tarun has 15+ years of experience in technology, with a focus on security and blockchain. He has a deep understanding of cloud technology, application development, cloud security, and decentralized applications. Before joining Google, Tarun has co-founded two web development startups and bootstrapped them from a single person to 30 people. Most recently, Tarun has been leading partner engineering efforts in Google Cloud while focusing on cybersecurity and web3 enablement for partners to deliver quality products and services to the end customers.

Will Balladares

Senior Interaction Designer (design lead)

Will is a UX product design leader and UX educator with 10+ years of experience in SaaS, B2B, and Consumer products across a wide range of sectors, including e-health, social media, and marketing. During this time, he has had the opportunity to design in fast-paced, large-scale software product environments, within cross-functional teams.

Will has helped build successful products with a user-centered approach, advocating for new ways to improve design processes, turning challenges into design opportunities.

Will is currently a core member of the leadership group in Gemini in Firebase, strategizing and designing the future of AI Assistance experiences in Firebase. Will is also teaching UX at Concordia University in Montreal.

Winston Lee
Regional Lead, Google Cloud Professional Services

Winston is currently engaged with accelerating the growth of AI Natives in the Enterprise and Start up segments. Winston previously worked at a Fintech startup rolling out a digital Robo-Advisor to large financial institutions. Previously, he had worked several years in Consulting including doing M&A work and custom development.

Yang Du

Capital Engineering Principal

Yang led Sequoia Capital's investment strategy and operations function for ~ 2 years. At Sequoia, he helped manage the investment team's full end-to-end investment processes and design / execute strategy for their investment partners, while serving as the connective tissue between Sequoia's investment teams and operating teams. Yang was also a co-lead of Sequoia's EPD team, focusing on building the best investor and founder products for the ecosystem. His expertise is in how a top tier VC fund makes investment decisions, which extends to helping with early stage startup ideation, pitches, and fundraising strategy.

Yatish Gupta

Software Engineer

Yatish has 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer at Google. During his tenure, he has worked on several teams including Ads, Firebase, BigQuery, Assistant and is now is the Uber technical lead of the Cloud Healthcare team. As part of the Healthcare team, he has helped onboard various big healthcare providers to GCP like HCA, Mayo, etc.

Zachary Sweis
Program Operations Infrastructure Manager

Zachary has a diverse background in program management, strategy, and operations, with a focus on startups and AI. Currently, he leads analytics and operations for the Google for Startups Cloud Program at Google. Prior to Google, he honed his program management skills at Plaid and Amplitude. While at Salesforce, he worked on analytics and strategy, and separately led an employee resource group focused on reducing ageism. He also partnered with founders on growth, talent, and fundraising at Newchip Accelerator and mentored startups at Seedstars. His areas of expertise include program management, go-to-market strategy, startup growth, and operational efficiency.

Zaib Mithani

Technical Account Manager

Zaib is a strategic and results-oriented leader with 13+ years of experience in data analytics, project management, and technical consulting. Zaib Mithani is currently a Technical Account Manager at Google Cloud, working with strategic and AI-focused customers to optimize their use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Before her time at Google, Zaib has worked in the Consulting and Financial Services industry where she led Data Analytics and Reporting Modernization teams. She has engaged in a variety of projects and customers from various industries, including Financial Services and Energy Sectors.

Zaib's expertise includes strategy development, stakeholder engagement, data analytics, customer-centric solutioning, as well as technical and team leadership.