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Aaron Davis
Customer Engineer, AI/ML
Google Cloud
Aaron is a seasoned startup founder who has built teams, technical solutions, strategy and culture. He is passionate about unlocking technical solutions with a scrappy resolve. Aaron has spent the last 15 years focusing on how Machine Learning benefits a variety of solutions and industries including NLP, CV and Time Series domains. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science where he researched Unsupervised Learning specifically in the NLP domain.
Abhinuv Pitale
Research Scientist
Google Cloud
Abhinuv is current research is on improving sensors & algorithms used for consumer health industry. His work at his previous startup, was focused on developing solutions for autonomous aviation along with multidisciplinary teams building an autonomous eVTOL aircraft.
Abhinuv's expertise lies in building and debugging complex control systems involving multi-modal sensors. He loves working in interdisciplinary roles to prototype solutions to interesting engineering challenges.
Alexander Braive
Product Owner
Google
Alex works as a Product Owner within Google's Extended Workforce Solutions group managing half of the systems that support Google's Contingent Workforce strategies and processes. Prior to joining Google Alex has over 5 years experience in management and technology consulting within the Financial Services industry. Alex specializes in Program Management, Product Roadmapping, Product Backlog Management, Agile Development, Product Design, and Salesforce.com.
Alisa Goldstein
Senior Product Manager
Google Cloud
Alisa has spent almost a decade at startups in the Boston area. At her last company, HaulHub, Alisa was the VP Product growing the company from 4 people to over 80. Alisa was responsible for the product, design, and QA org. Alisa was the CEO's right-hand person, navigating the company from Series A to Series C. The company was in supply chain working with the government (DOT), enterprise material suppliers, and consumers. Covering scheduling, material ordering, e-ticketing, transportation, payments, compliance, and analytics. They supported both web and mobile experiences. Before that Alisa was at a startup in quant finance focusing in the consumer space, called Quantopian. She was the 10th employee, and the company was later bought by Robinhood. Alisa is a product oriented, consumer and operations focused person.
Andrea Oliver
Senior Programmatic Account Manager, Google
Andrea has over 9 years of digital and traditional marketing and sales experience across different countries including Canada, Spain and UK. She has a deep understanding of ecommerce, media and tech especially within the Automotive and CPG industries. She is currently responsible for the programmatic media strategy within the Automotive Industry at Google Canada and to drive the adoption of emerging formats like Connected TV. Throughout her career she has partnered with all sorts of customers: from big and tech savvy grownup Startups like Zooplus (EMENA) or big Automotive clients to independent English pet store entrepreneurs to help them grow their business.
Annie Luo
UX Researcher
Google
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
UX Designer
Google
Aparna is a UX designer with 8+ years of experience shipping meaningful solutions for complex problems. She is passionate about advocating for user-centric solutions and has facilitated over 30 Design Thinking workshops for a variety of teams and organizations.
Arthur Yau
Software Engineer, Ads
Google
Arthur has experience building up software from scratch with the support of GCP, AWS. At Google Arthur focuses on Fraud Detection systems (Time series, Network/Graph) via Machine Learning Method.
Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem, North America, Google
Ashley Francisco currently serves as the Head of Startup Ecosystem, North America at Google and is based in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. In her role, she oversees the North American Accelerator portfolio, including cohorts dedicated to Women Founders, Black Founders, Climate Change and more. Her goal is to bring the best of Google's people, programs, products and technology to startup teams across Canada and the United States. Ashley is a professional marketer by trade with a diverse background in local and global brand building at Google, Visa, Mondelez and Kraft Foods.
UX Writer
Google
Austin has 3+ years of experience as a UX Writer / Content Designer at Google, enhancing the Stadia Partner Experience to make it a joy to develop, publish, and manage games on Stadia.
He has both enterprise and consumer app UXW experience for web and mobile. He can help define voice and tone, cut the noise to optimize and streamline designs, write compelling and clear UI text, review designs for accessibility standards, and help introduce "fun" into flows. :)
Program Manager, Regulatory / Compliance Strategy and Response
Google
Brendan is currently a Program Manager within the regulatory response and strategy team at Google where he focuses on uplifting Google’s products and infrastructure to meet security and privacy regulations. In previous roles,Brendan has led compliance due diligence, gap remediation, and integration efforts for over 15 acquisitions focusing primarily on security, privacy, and compliance uplifts. His specific expertise includes strategic and hands on product experience with technical compliance for multiple regulations around the world (e.g. GDPR, DSA, DMA, HIPAA, etc.) as well as industry security and privacy certifications (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 270XX series, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, etc.) issued by third party audit firms. Brendan has worked across numerous industries and led compliance efforts for acquired companies ranging in size from 10 employees to over 1,000.
Field Sales
Google Cloud
Bruno has over a decade of experience in the technology industry, having covered both Private and Public sector organizations both large and small in both the US & Canada. His background includes helping people understand the value of & implement technologies to improve their Reliability, Security, Scalability, Sustainability & Cost. He's been a mentor for Google for Startups for several years, having participated in 10+ Accelerators while providing advice on both B2B GTM strategy & technical excellence for building Cloud systems - particularly on Google Cloud.
Interaction Designer
Google
As a leader in Design Thinking and Product Management disciplines, Cesar's focus is on setting clear, measurable outcomes for products by balancing research and branding to deliver experiences customers love. Cesar brings these same disciplines and experience to leading and growing product teams for big corporations, startups and agencies.
Data Analytics Sales Specialist
Google
Campbell Courteau is currently on the Data Analytics & AI Enterprise Sales team focused on selling to Digital Natives. Prior to joining Google, Campbell led Sales and Business Development at Yuhu, a Toronto-based tech start-up. As a founding team member, Campbell was responsible for defining and executing Yuhu’s sales GTM strategy and driving ARR growth. Campbell started his software career at SAP where he held various roles in the sales organization working in the Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and the San Francisco Bay Area offices.
Organizational Development Practitioner, Google
Carmen joined Google in 2019 as an OD Practitioner based in San Francisco. Prior to joining Google, Carmen was the Sr Director, Organizational and Talent Development at Sephora where she led a team responsible for Organizational Development & Change, Talent Development, Performance Management, and Executive Development. Before Sephora, Carmen spent six years in the Accenture Strategy Talent & Organization Practice with her final role as a Senior Manager where her work with executives covered change management and measurement, culture, leadership development, talent strategy, operating model and organization design with various Fortune 500 companies.
Product Marketing Manager
Google
Carolyn has 10+ years experience working on consumer and developer products, specializing in mobile app products. Prior to Google she spent 4 years at Apple on the App Store team working with app developers such as Tinder, HBO, and Facebook, helping them grow and monetize their products. She also spent 6 years at Expedia leading mobile app growth. She is currently a Product Marketing Manager at Google and has just been approved to transfer to the Product Management ladder.
Field Sales Representative Enterprise Google Cloud
Chelsea has extensive experience in building, developing and hiring sales teams. She has managed and built out sales and marketing programs to enable customer success across business lines. She cares passionately about enabling females in the tech space and has been recognized for her work on this at a volunteer and organizational level. Chelsea was named Woman of the Year in 2020 during her time at Oracle.
Chen-Ping Yu
Engineering Manager
Google
Founding CEO and CTO of Phiar - an AI-powered AR navigation startup founded out of Harvard Innovation Labs in 2017, and was part of YC Summer 2018, and was acquired by Google in 2022. Raised $15M+ in venture funding through Seed and Series A, acquired key automotive partnerships that includes Panasonic, Qualcomm, TomTom. Strong AI and Product background.
Head of Customer Value & Transformation Advisory
Google Cloud
Dave leads the transformation advisory team and focuses on aligning Google capabilities with customer strategy to define the customer business outcomes and ROI. He’s been leading similar functions at application and infrastructure companies prior to joining Google Cloud a few years ago. Over his 20+ year career in technology, he’s led finance, operations, technical sales and business development teams.
Denise Pearl
Sustainability/Geo ISV Partnerships Google Cloud
Global ISV lead focused on Google Cloud’s Geospatial, Earth Observation and Sustainability partners. Primary focus is to align engineering, marketing and sales teams within Google around the issues impacting the planet including sustainable supply chain, transportation and logistics, digital twins, disaster readiness, health and public safety issues, economic development and climate action plans.
Diljot Chhina
Measurement Lead Omnichannel Google
Diljot has 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, analytics and data science. She has a deep understanding of user experience design, eCommerce analytics, and scaling analytics teams. Before Google, Diljot worked at one of the leading Canadian retailers, setting the foundations for their eComm analytics infrastructure and team. Most recently, Diljot has shifted into a measurement lead role at Google, helping clients to scale their omnichannel marketing capabilities with investment in various Google advertising solutions.
Evgeni Nikolov
Senior UX Designer
Google Cloud
Evgeni has 20+ years of experience in design and 8+ in UX and product design. He has a deep understanding of design/product strategy, design process, and UX involvement in product development as part of a cross-functional agile teams. Before UX design, Evgeni was an Art/Creative director with top creative and digital agencies as Ogilvy, Tribal DDB and Havas. Most recently, Evgeni has joined Google Cloud, owning the post purchase experience for Google Marketplace.
Frank Yang
Software Engineering Manager
Google Cloud
Frank leads a sizeable team to tackle healthcare data exchange and analytics on cloud. Decent experiences in building large scale distributed systems, driving product roadmaps, and managing onsite & remote engineering teams. Dabbles in AI/ML and has GCP professional ML engineer certificate.
Gautham Srinivas
Product Manager
Google
Gautham has been building tech products for 8+ years - half of which were spent at Flipkart (Indian e-commerce giant), where he worked on the earliest checkout, payments and developer platforms. He then built growth and payment products at a grocery delivery startup (Dunzo) before joining Google as a Product Manager. At Google, Gautham has worked on diverse problems such as building a simpler Ads product for small business and growing Google Search via better notifications. He enjoys working with startups to provide guidance on product-led growth, PM hiring and early product strategy.
Senior Product Manager
Google Cloud
Product focused with extensive experience in founding, operating and growing startups through exits (3x) and utter crash-and-burn scenarios. Lots of experience in navigating fortune 500 companies with stints at Salesforce.com, Cisco, and Broadcom. Geoffrey always finds himself close to infrastructure, DevOps and the engineering organization in general. His hands-on product experience ranges from B2C adventures like wearables and textiles and to B2B with various SaaS solutions and Developer Tools. AI / ML, Cloud, MarTech, E-Comm, Apps, Dev Tools and more.
Ian Stewart
Software Engineer
Google Cloud
Ian is a software developer working on tools to help secure software supply chains. Before joining Google, Ian spent 6 years at an early-stage startup developing a suite of cloud-based economic development marketing tools geared towards municipalities. As one of the first employees, Ian helped grow the company from 0 to over 200 municipal clients across North America and over $2 million annual recurring revenue. He has broad familiarity with adopting cloud technologies, from client- and server-side frameworks, relational databases, containers, to orchestrating workflows and improving deployment processes.
Technical Lead/Manager
Google
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.
Software Engineering Manager
Google
Prior to joining Google, Jay founded two startups that were both sold to BlackBerry (Plazmic - 2001, and Viigo - 2010). Since joining Google in 2019, he has been leading a team focused on Gmail backend infrastructure.
Enterprise Field Sales Representative Google Cloud
Jean-Luc is a seasoned revenue professional focused in the technology industry. He launched multiple successful APP and digital ecosystems as an executive at the top 3 media company in Canada and was able to grow revenues significantly. His marketing, sales and finance background make him a great asset to see opportunities from a data and revenue point of view. He is regularly invited to talk about his experience and view on the AI ecosystem at University and events. Before switching to the sales team at Google Cloud, he was the Chief Revenue Officer in an up and coming AI tech startup in Montreal.
Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
Helping customers reach technical and business outcomes using Google Cloud technology. Jeffrey is most comfortable with cloud infrastructure and application modernization.
John Bodolai
Field Sales Rep
Google
John is a former VP of Sales/Marketing with several tech startups developing go to market plans, customer acquisition strategies. He was also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ryerson University DMZ (Incubator program) to coach start ups.
John Shea
Senior Software Engineer
Google
John is a polymath with experience in software engineering, law, finance, and staffing. John started his career in finance, took a detour into practicing law, couldn't resist founding a fintech startup, and spent six years building recruiting software. Most recently he has settled at Google where he works on advancing our understanding of engineering productivity.
Jonathan Shriver-Blake
Group Product Manager
Google Cloud
John Shriver-Blake is an entrepreneurial product leader with experience across Enterprise & Consumer at both startups and established technology companies. He’s currently product lead for Workspace Individual giving very small businesses the tools they need to succeed in Gmail, Drive and Meet. Previously he led product at Ritual, taking Ritual international, and growing orders 2x year over year.
Kas Houshidar
Corporate Field Sales Representative, Google Cloud
Kas comes with a very broad experience working across many industries from a technology sales background as well as a high level of expertise in procurement and supply chain. Having worked with large enterprises, governments, and startups, he understands the balance of people and processes needed to be successful.
Customer Engineer, Data Analytics, Google Cloud
Kathleen is a Customer Engineer working on Google Cloud. She currently works with existing startup/midmarket Google customers mostly within the Data Analytics space to help them extract value from their data.
Product Manager,
Google Cloud
Kevin is an experienced Product Management Professional whose experience includes founding numerous startups from various industries including tech and food service, lead and scaled up a startup from 10 person to 150 with a successful exit, and building a product from paper napkin to full customer launch with over a million users in the domain areas of Identity Management, Marketplace, Subscription, Payments, and Carrier Billing. Kevin also is an experienced mentor and guest speaker having mentored numerous Canadian startups at Futurpreneur Canada across various industries and works at adplist.org as a product management mentor to support individuals across the world in career growth and transfers.
Product Manager
Google
Kinton is an experienced Product Manager in Search, and a PM lead in Google's cross-product efforts to internationalize products for Cantonese. He was previously a PM of Google Maps April Fools and in Google Maps for Enterprise. Kinton is part of Google's Associate Product Manager (APM) program, a selective program where Google accepts 40 college graduates every year and places them directly in a Product Manager position, with training, travel, and networking opportunities to succeed. Before Google, Kinton worked in a variety of companies, including growth hacking/marketing at startups, data analyst at Zynga (gaming), and product management at Yelp.
Director, Strategy & Product Acceleration Google
Matthew Rivard, Director of Strategy and Product for Google Canada leads teams responsible for developing and supporting our go-to-market product and activation strategy for Google & YouTube’s suite of advertising and measurement solutions.
Senior Software Engineer
Google Cloud
Meng is a senior software engineer working in Google. She joined Google after graduating from New York University in 2017. In the past years, she worked on several products in Google across multiple product areas, including Google Maps, Infrastructure, Commerce, Cloud AI. She is currently working in Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Billing organization. The product she is working on is Cost Estimation, which empowers customers and internal partners to estimate costs of hypothetical Google Cloud services.
Program Manager
Google
Mike is a Program Manager at Google, working on sustainability compliance frameworks for Data Centers. Prior to this role, he ran a music media website with 3 close friends. They were able to grow the following to about 100k total on all social.
Field Sales Representative Google Cloud
Michael Huang is the Cofounder of Risedesk.io - Risedesk is a multi-million Ergonomic Furniture Startup that focuses on mental and physical wellness of individuals, and employees. Risedesk leads with sustainability in the most environmentally harmful industry (furniture) by being audited and certified by B Corp as one of the world's most sustainable companies. Michael Huang at Google is a Cloud Field Sales Representative helping Canadian startups scale their business leveraging exclusive Google Cloud tools, resources, and partnerships.
AI/ML Specialist
Google
Since joining Google in 2017, Mike has helped dozens of companies ranging from startups to global leaders like P&G, Ford 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. Primary Functional Area Expertise: Machine Learning, Analytics, Architecture. Product Expertise: Vertex AI (Training, Prediction, Pipelines, Notebooks, etc.), BigQuery, Data Fusion, Data Prep.
Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
Naf is a client-centric leader with expertise in helping customers evolve while achieving their business and technology goals through viable and efficient cloud solutions. Naf leverages his strong technology background, business acumen, people skills, project management and strategy to design, engineer, and architect solutions for digital transformation.
Technical Lead / Engineering Manager Google
Nazih is an Engineering Manager of WearOS at Google. Prior to Google, Nazih was a consultant in the areas of machine vision, wearables, drone power system, mobile OS security, and sensors, for startups and global companies. Nazih aims to provide technical and management mentorship to startups, in the area of hiring, technical architect, medical grade sensors, battery life estimation and safety mitigation, manufacturability and scalability.
Nikolas Mangold-Takao
Sr Product Manager
Google
Nikolas is an experienced PM and manager, since 2019 at Google working in the area Commerce/Shopping. He previously co-founded, started and scaled Azena a B2B Video Analytics / IoT marketplace. Nikolas was previously a mentor for Google for Startups cohorts and is currently a mentor at Rockstart (incubator with focus on regenerative and sustainable future).
Account Manager
Google
Osaze Osoba has over 8 years of experience leading digital marketing and product teams. He is currently an Account Manager at Google where he works with some of the largest Canadian brands to drive user growth and profitability. Before Google, he spent his early career leading growth teams at multiple startups.
Enterprise Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
Osmond has more than 25 years in the IT industry. Osmond has been with the Google Cloud team for around 5 years. He is an experienced startup mentor who specializes in helping startups adopt open source, cloud technology to drive business value or innovation.
Pawel Siarkiewicz
Senior Product Manager
Google
Pawel is a Senior Product Manager leading the product team responsible for enabling our partners to build and launch games on Stadia. Before working at Google, Pawel was a Technical Director at Electronic Arts, CTO at a boutique quantitative investment firm and co-founder of a startup focusing on enterprise VR applications.
Peter Hand
Brand Strategy Lead
Google
Peter is a Brand Strategy Lead at Google with over 10 years of experience working with some of the worlds biggest & most innovative brands. Aside from his tenure in advertising Peter worked in fashion and beauty photography for years and holds a Masters in Molecular Genetics.
Qayam Sayani
Strategic Agency Manager
Google
Qayam is a Digital Marketing & Partnerships expert who has specialized in performance marketing & media strategy that produces long-term, sustainable business growth. He's worked with a wide variety of startups and Fortune 500 brands across search, social, programmatic, and other paid & organic marketing channels. While at advertising agencies he worked with some of the largest global restaurant, CPG, retail, finance, technology, and automotive brands. Qayam focuses on creating real-world outcomes, and developing strategies that ultimately affect the bottom line.
Rajesh Janakiraman Engineering Manager
Google
Rajesh is an Engineering Leader on the Gmail Android product. Prior to Google, Rajesh spent over 8 years at Facebook as an Engineering Leader in areas such as Design Systems, Animations, Account Security and Authentication. He brings significant mobile app technical leadership experience and is able to help scale products to billions of users
Rama Afullo
Global Investor Program Manager Google Cloud
Rama has ~10 years of experience working at some of the largest tech companies in the world. He is currently a Google employee as a Global Investor Program Manager with Google for Startups Cloud Program, and is skilled in blue chip Engineering, Sales, Program Management and Business Development. He worked previously as a Technical Account Manager in Google Cloud in the Bay Area, and as a Senior Account Manager in Google Ads in Ireland before that. Prior to Google, Rama was the 3rd employee of Tesla in Africa, working as an Account Manager in the energy products division and selling Tesla's first ever Tesla Powerwall deal in the telecom industry. Rama's background is in mechanical engineering and business management.
Roberto Barbero
Learning Consultant, Advanced Custom Training
Google Cloud
Roberto has a technical background in IoT and embedding ML in Edge devices. He's been working for Google for the past 4 years in different roles, finding ways to adapt Google Cloud solutions to solve real world problems. Originally from Spain, currently living in Montreal, he is passionate about using technology to fight Climate Change and support Sustainable Development Goals.
Roxana Figueroa
Associate Financial Analyst
Google
Roxana has had 3+ years of technical experience in the financial sector with a focus within technology. She has a deep understanding of financial modeling and industry/data analysis. Previously worked with companies in industries such as AI/ML, HRTech and Fintech. She has participated in diligence for potential investments ranging from market analyses to product deep dives. Roxana has also had experience in the legal sector as a patent strategy intern working alongside creators to file their patents with the USPTO. In her current role at Google, she is part of the rotational financial analyst program where she is assisting with scaling platforms & services for two teams through the creation of forecast/regression models, monthly reporting, and data consolidation.
Ruchi Mahajan
Staff Interaction Designer
Google
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. She mentors start-up teams at Manush Labs (start-up accelerator) and provides guidance to designers in various industry forums and groups.
Ryan Yu
Product Manager
Google Cloud
Ryan is passionate about the intersection of AI/ML applications and business strategy and is currently the Product Manager for Google Cloud's Contact Center AI Insights product. He was a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co. and a Product Manager/Machine Learning Researcher at Thinking Machines, a data science startup. He recently received his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he attended classes on tech strategy and entrepreneurship and worked on two ventures.
Sadhana Doddapaneni
Customer Engineer
Google Cloud
Sadhana started off as a developer then moved to pre sales engineering and working in this role for the last 6+ years with the most recent experience being at a startup. She’s currently working as a Application Modernization specialist working with digital natives.
Senior Account Manager
Google
Sam has 8+ years of experience in digital advertising strategy, with a focus on driving performance and scale. He has a deep understanding of advertising platforms, their technical nuances, and how to plan, execute and evaluate in digital campaigns. At Google, Sam partners with advertisers whose main objective is to drive leads, and is responsible for helping established businesses and startups maximize their investments within the Google Ads ecosystem.
Director of Engineering
Seba has worked in technology for over 20 years. He spent the first half of his career working in consulting, building technology solutions in different domains (banking, healthcare, retail, BPO, etc) for Fortune 500 companies. For the last half, he has focused on building teams and products, going deep into customers' needs, and seeing things grow from an early proof of concept to a successful service with millions of users. Most recently, he was CTO and Head of Product for two successful mid-size companies (sub 1000 people) and Head of Technology within Amazon Web Services. At Google, he leads engineering for Firebase, Google's app development platform.
Product Manager
YouTube
Shannon is currently leading and building out a product strategy on creator monetization for YouTube Premium. Prior to Google, Shannon worked for a series A startup focused on the creator economy- it was a platform to connect creators and brands. Prior to that, she was at Amazon for 4 years working across different products on Echo/Alexa and Amazon Fashion. Shannon is passionate about startups, e-commerce, creators, and fashion. Her strengths are product strategy and definition, product discovery, big picture and strategic thinking, and innovation.
Technical Program Manager
YouTube
Simin has 15+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, with a focus on Healthcare, Entertainment and Entrepreneurship. She has a deep understanding of product development, startups fundraising and business strategy. Most recently, Simon serves as an advisor at Astia Angels helping women entrepreneurs to get funded. She enjoys mentoring underrepresented people interested in science and technology. Simin recently joined Google/Youtube as a Senior Technical Program Manager. Previously she has worked at large companies such as NewsCorp and Sony, and multiple startups.
Account Strategist
Google
Specialized in turning business obstacles into data-driven media solutions. 6+ years of experience in Performance Marketing and Digital Media within industries ranging from B2B to B2C Services; SaaS, Consumer-Packaged Goods, Aviation, Financial Services & Loyalty and E-commerce. Within the start up world, Simran has worked as a Demand Gen Analyst to really understand the B2B prospecting space. She is now at Google as an Account Strategist, initiating accounts to accelerate towards upselling targets.
Account Executive, New Business Partnerships Sales Google
Sofia has been working in tech sales for over 6 years, she started her career at a startup company called Assent, which is now a unicorn Canadian company. Then transitioned into an Account Executive role at Shopify and most recently in June 2021 started at Google in the New Business Sales Partnerships team. Sofia has an entrepreneurial mindset, she's had multiple eCommerce brands and when not selling and closing deals at Google, Sofia is thinking of new ideas, investing in Crypto/NFTs or playing tennis. Sofia is also the co founder of Women in Web3 at Google and leads a weekly NFT talk within Google.
Senior Account Strategist, Ads
Google
Stephen is a growth-minded marketing professional with eight years of experience solving complex business challenges for startup & global companies through superior problem-solving, communication, and analytical skills. As a Senior Growth Strategist, Stephen partners with Mid-Market advertisers to develop strategy for and execute digital marketing strategies with the goal of accelerating new customer acquisition and profitable, long-term revenue growth.
Partner Solutions Architect Google Cloud
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.
Global Strategy & Operations Manager
Google
Taslim looks after strategy and operations for Android, Enterprise, and Developer Marketing at Google. In this capacity, he leads strategy deep dives to help marketing leaders sustainably grow Google’s complex platforms and ecosystems, and help them to run a tight ship by managing ongoing business operations needs. Prior to this role, he was a Product Manager on the Chrome Browser team where he built content products for the browser. Before that, he drove research and product marketing efforts for Search, YouTube and Assistant in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has also worked with Google.org to run the Google Impact Challenge in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, which supported 36 nonprofits with $6M in grant funding.
Data Analytics Sales Specialist
Google Cloud
Triston has technology sales experience. To date, he has worked at companies like Apple, startups like Handshake (acquired by Shopify), and Cockroach Labs, and more recently Google. Triston has worked in various sales roles including business development, account management, and net new business sales. Today, he sells Google Analytics products like Looker Studio and Big Query to SMBs in the Mid Atlantic region.
Yaair Alpert
Operations Manager
Google
Yaair has 12 years of experience and a track record of improving productivity and increasing revenue through outstanding team leadership.
Deep domain expertise in operations strategy, product strategy, change management, customer/user experience, and process improvement, with ability to devise and execute complex, cross functional projects.