Torrence Boone

Vice President, Global Client Partnerships

As VP of Global Client Partnerships, Torrence is responsible for driving Google’s strategy and multi-billion dollar business across a portfolio of the world’s largest global advertisers, spanning the tech, health/beauty and CPG verticals. He leads a team focused on large scale global strategic partnerships that deploy diverse Google products and platforms to achieve business transformation and breakthrough marketing results. He is a corporate director for Macy’s (NYSE: M), a former corporate director for Finish Line (NASDAQ: FINL),  a board member of Pond5, a leading online marketplace for creative assets, and a board member of Effie Worldwide.

Marian Croak

Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering

Marian Croak is the Vice President of Site Reliability Engineering at Google. Marian joined Google in late 2014 after retiring from AT&T as an SVP responsible for advanced research and innovation, and designing and developing one of the world's largest wireless and broadband networks. Marian holds over 200 patents mostly focused on IP technology. She is a strong supporter of STEM initiatives, served on many boards including NACME and Catalyst, and personally mentors many individuals in STEM.

Bonita Stewart

Vice President, Global Partnerships

Bonita C. Stewart brings extensive consumer technology and operational experience as her career spans over two decades of digital transformation across multiple industries. Since joining Google in 2006 she has driven adoption of digital technologies within the C-Suite in the US and globally. Currently, she oversees the company’s Global Partnerships team for the largest US publishers across Search, Mobile Apps, Commerce, News, Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications and Domains.

Peter Norvig 

Director of Research, Google

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google; previously, he directed Google's core search algorithms group. He is co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field, and co-teacher of an Artificial Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. He is a Fellow of AAAI, ACM, the California Academy of Science, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Zachary Ross

Senior Technical Program Manager

Zachary Ross is a 19 year veteran of the technology industry and has worked at a large variety of companies from small start-ups to large multi-national companies. Zack is currently a Senior Technical Program Manager for VMware headquartered in Palo Alto, California. His area of focus are enterprise software, mobile app development,, strategy execution, and OKR methodology.

LJ Erwin

Chief of Staff, YouTube TV & Sports

LJ Erwin is the Chief of Staff at YouTube TV and Sports. Prior to joining YouTube, LJ led founder and VC engagement in Silicon Valley for Google Cloud for Startups. Before Google, he helped lead early stage sourcing and founder engagement at Andreessen Horowitz. LJ is a native Texan and graduate from the University of Texas at Austin.  

Marfo Ofori-Atta

Program Manager 

I am a Google for Startups Program Manager focusing on Ad Support. I manage our Ads Support offering which connects startups to Ad teams to help them grow and scale with Google Ads. 

Sol Chea

Technical Lead Manager, Project Loon

Sol Chea is a Technical Lead for Project Loon which started as part of Google X, and uses balloons to provide Internet to remote regions and during disaster recovery efforts. In addition, he has over 15 years of engineering experience ranging from building B2B/B2C products for billions of users to building engineering teams from the ground up.

Deana Anglin

Senior UX Researcher

Dr. Deana Anglin is a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google with a decade of experience as a design research strategist supporting the development of global products and services like Google food ordering and service booking marketplace. She is also a part-time adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and founder of the Azarae Foundation, a non-profit enabling access to education and opportunities for Caribbean youth. Deana hails from Jamaica and received a PhD in Computing from Georgia Tech.

Nicole Hardson-Hurley

Co-Founder & Head of Product at Byteboard (an Area 120 Startup)

Nicole is the Co-founder and Head of Product at Byteboard, an Area 120 startup making technical interviews more effective, efficient, and equitable. She is passionate about using technology and business to improve access to opportunity and motivate positive social change. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she studied Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Human Computer Interaction.

Alan Ranciato

Customer Engineer

 30 year resident of Tampa Bay. Over 20 years of experience in Enterprise application development, startup technologies, organizational transformation and architecture with a specialty in DevOps strategy and Cloud architecture. Holds Google Cloud certifications as a Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, Cloud Developer, and DevOps Engineer. 

Karl Weinmeister

Cloud AI Advocacy Manager

Karl Weinmeister is a Cloud AI Advocacy Manager at Google, where he leads a team of data science experts who develop content and engage with communities worldwide. Karl has worked extensively in machine learning and cloud technologies. He was a contributor to one of the first AI-based crossword puzzle solvers that is still referenced today.

Di Dang

Emerging Tech Design Advocate

Di works as an Emerging Tech Design Advocate at Google, where she launched the People + AI Guidebook, a toolkit for designing AI products. Previously, she worked as a Senior UX Designer and led the Emerging Tech group at Seattle-based digital agency POP. With a degree in Philosophy and Religion, she considers herself an optimistic realist who is passionate about responsible design.

Mark Lee

Program Manager, Google Play

Mark is a Program Lead in Google Play where he focuses on helping Startups and Game Developers launch successfully. He has experience in strategic partnerships and GTM roles across Android and Cloud, in addition to a service background as an Army Veteran. Mark is passionate about helping developers and bringing great new apps to the ecosystem.

Azeez Soetan

Growth Manager

Azeez is a growth manager working with startups and small businesses in the UK Market helping them grow online. Azeez is from South East London and moved to Dublin, Ireland to work at Google's EMEA HQ.

The Accelerate Performance Sales Consulting Team 

The Accelerate Performance Sales Consulting Team has supported Googlers and Google Partners/Founders since 2007. This group provides skills, practice, and best practices to equip you and your team to show up to win, as the best version of yourselves, in your biggest sales and partnership opportunities. Get ready for a fun, interactive, and valuable experience.

Nick Pirog

Analytical Lead

Nick helps omnichannel retailers grow sales through analytics, and customer behavior insights. He joined Google 2 years ago, and previously worked in advertising for 10 years.

Saumya Venkatesan

Analytical Lead 

Saumya loves startups and telling compelling stories. At Google, she helps travel clients learn about their customers and use data to drive strategy. In her free time, she runs a healthcare startup accelerator for higher education students in Atlanta. 

Charles Omoregie

Business Executive

10 years of marketing experience currently working at Google developing growth strategies to startups and traditional companies pivoting to digital. Between my main clients were the first Brazilian unicorns like Nubank, Loft, Stone, Loggi and other consolidated brands like BTG Pactual Digital, the biggest investment bank of Latin America.

Goldy Bardin

Creative Lead, Google Cloud Web

Goldy Bardin is a creative director with a background in creative strategy, writing, design, and art direction. She has working in marketing/advertising for 20+ years, creating experiences for over 80 brands, with a strong focus on digital.

Heather Clancy

Global Business Development, Devices & Services

Heather spent 8+ years working at hyper-growth Silicon Valley startups, and the last 4 years at Google. She is an innovative thought leader with diverse experience creating multi-dimensional product partnerships and commercial deals, building strong teams and managing complex global initiatives, and driving innovation. Heather's passionate about supporting founders and the Google for Startups community and is here to help!

Carmella Vong

Program Manager, Growth Lab

Carmella works on the Google Ads team advising high value lead generation companies on their digital marketing strategy. She created the Growth Lab, a digital marketing training designed to help startups create and reach their marketing goals using Google products, and has helped roll out the program to startups all over the world. She's especially passionate about growth marketing, storytelling, and innovation for social good. 

Kirsten Thibault

International Growth Consultant

Kirsten Thibault joined Google in 2014 and has worked in analytical, insights and sales roles across the automotive, retail, travel and tech industries. In her current role as an International Growth Lead, she helps Canadian businesses expand beyond the great white north. She holds a BS in Finance and Marketing from Georgetown University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Jeremy Neuner

Accelerator Curriculum Lead

Jeremy is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. He currently runs the Accelerator curriculum team at Google. He tries to lives by this motto: "Take your job seriously, but not yourself."

Jonathan Lowenhar

Founder & Managing Partner

Jonathan loves working with entrepreneurs - whether as an operator, advisor or board member his passion has been to help early companies to launch, young businesses to grow and maturing enterprises to reach scale. Over the last 15 years he's successfully managed a $1B business segment for a large public company, led the turnaround of a distressed $100M+ revenue business, launched and sold a venture-backed startup and led the rapid growth of a fintech enterprise software businesses.

Lucero Tagle

People Advisor and Strategist 

Lucero joined Google in 2004 in People Operations. Her career has covered recruitment for both sales and tech, career development, coaching, leadership development, and talent growth & retention both on an EMEA and global level. She has a passion for helping founders solve their most critical organisational challenges. She encourages founders to go to the "uncomfortable" and take action to increase the impact of their own individual leadership, and to improve the health and performance of their team and organisation. She is a frequent external speaker and facilitates numerous "people strategy" workshops/webinars.

Tony McGaharan

Leadership and Team Development Consultant

Tony recently left his career at Google, where he worked in a variety of roles and locations, including Dublin, Singapore and London. In his most recent position at Google, Tony was responsible for leading a global learning and development team for a 500+ person sales organisation. He also held other roles in the company, hiring top talent into EMEA and leading onboarding across APAC. Throughout his time at Google, Tony served as a consultant helping leaders to improve their team’s effectiveness. In his earlier career, Tony managed peace-building programs for a non-profit which uses basketball to bring young people together from divided communities. He is an experienced facilitator and a qualified Coach, both on and off the basketball court. Tony's number one passion is in developing people.

Lesley Ross

General Partner

Lesley has worked in tech for 14 years as an operator in growth and analytics roles. She founded Quantified Ardor in 2016 to support growing startups around the world on data-driven decision-making. She has also spent the last 7 years as a startup advisor (including as a mentor for Google For Startups since 2016) while holding multiple COO positions for startups at various stages.

Shannon McLoughlin

Vice President, Nectar Communications

As a Vice President at Nectar, Shannon draws upon over a decade of experience working with enterprise technology companies and startups. In her role, Shannon works closely with senior executives and spokespeople to help develop their thought leadership platforms, and guides her team in building strong media relationships on behalf of Nectar clients. Shannon has been a lead on the Google Cloud PR team at Nectar for over three years and has had the pleasure of working with the Google for Startups team for the past year. During this time, she has led campaigns that cross PR, AR, social and thought leadership programs. Shannon holds a BA in Public Relations and Marketing from Syracuse University.  

Julie Case

Account Supervisor, Nectar Communication

Julie is an Account Supervisor at Nectar, overseeing a number of Google teams as well as a thought leadership initiative for X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory. From finding new media targets and storylines to offering strategic counsel and executing on “big stories,” trend jacking and thought leadership, Julie is always looking for creative ways to get her clients noticed in their key markets. Julie joins Nectar with a mix of in-house and agency experience, having spent the first half of her career on the communications team at Collective Health and at The Hatch Agency. Julie holds a BA in Public Relations and Advertising from Chapman University.