Jason Titus

VP Engineering, Developer Relations, Google

Jason Titus is the VP for Developer Relations at Google. Before that, he worked as the Chief Technology Officer at Shazam and as the Vice President of Communications for Mail, Messenger, and PIM at Yahoo. Prior to that, Jason co-founded iAtlas, a start-up acquired by Alta Vista.

Kate Brandt

Google Sustainability Officer

Kate Brandt serves as Google’s Sustainability Officer, leading sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations, including data centers, real estate, supply chain, and product teams. Previously Kate served in the White House as the Nation's first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer, where she was responsible for promoting sustainability across Federal Government operations, including 360,000 buildings, 650,000 vehicles, and $445 billion annually in purchased goods and services.

Audrey Zibelman

VP X’s Electric Grid Moonshot

Audrey Zibelman leads X’s moonshot for the electric grid. Her team is developing new computational tools to enable the rapid and cost effective decarbonization of the electrical grid. Audrey has spent over three decades leading organizations with the goal of making power cleaner, more affordable and more reliable. She is an international expert in power system transformation, regulation, markets and operations. She’s also been a utility executive, regulator, system operator and entrepreneur.

John Platt

Director, Distinguished Scientist, Google

John Platt is best known for his work in machine learning: the SMO algorithm for support vector machines and calibrating the output of models. He was an early adopter of convolutional neural networks in the 1990s. However, John has worked in many different fields: data systems, computational geometry, object recognition, media UIs, analog computation, handwriting recognition, and applied math. He has discovered two asteroids, and won a Technical Academy Award in 2006 for his work in computer graphics. John currently leads the Applied Science branch of Google Research, which works at the intersection between computer science and physical or biological science. His latest goal is to help to solve climate change. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Microsoft Research Redmond lab, and was Director of Research at Synaptics.

Karen Roter Davis

Director, Early Stage Projects at X

As Director of Early Stage Projects at X, Karen grounds moonshot projects in business and ESG objectives, ensuring that the technologies of tomorrow make the transition to profitable and purposeful "10x" (versus 10%) ventures today. Karen has held multiple board and advisory engagements, partnering with Boards and executive teams on critical technology investment decisions, go-to-market product and partnership strategies, and M&A. She currently serves on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Carbon Initiative Impact Committee.

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.

Aaron Bell

Engineering Director, Google

Aaron leads Climate & Weather teams focused on new product innovation within Google Research. Prior to Google, Aaron was the founder & CEO of AdRoll and developed earth imagery educational games in partnership with NASA.

Chris LaRosa

Senior Product Manager at Google

Chris leads Sustainability and Economic Security products on Google Search. Previously Chris was a product lead for Music at YouTube, augmented reality hardware and software products at Google, a Google X company enabling sustainable building design, and Video at Twitter. Before starting a career as a PM, Chris was a fellow with the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.

Barry Fischer

Data Storyteller for Google Data Centers

Barry Fischer is a data storyteller at Google. His major projects have included creating and hosting Google's Where the Internet Lives podcast; building a team of content creators to illuminate the hidden world of Google data centers; and developing innovative data visualizations for Google's 24/7 carbon-free energy program. Prior to Google, Barry worked in Content and Editorial at Tesla, and was Editorial Director at SolarCity. In addition, Barry served as Head of Content at Opower, where he founded and led Opower’s data blog “Outlier,” which leveraged energy data from more than 50 million households worldwide

Aditi Bhargava

Sr. UX Researcher, Google

Aditi is an experienced UX Researcher whose work includes uncovering user problems to drive new feature ideation, validating product-market fit for early concepts, and prioritizing actionable metrics for launches. Her recent work includes relaunching Google Finance to make investing information more accessible and Google Pixel's call screening feature. Before Google, she worked at Toronto's innovation hub where she helped startups leverage UX to answer critical business questions that helped build successful products.

Evelyn Tio

Senior UX Researcher, Google

Evelyn has been a UX Researcher at Google for 6 years, working on various products including Search, Google Voice, and Google Fi. She currently works on Google Chrome with a focus on desktop productivity and user education.

Jiyoung Han

Product Marketing Manager, Google

Jiyoung is passionate about understanding how individual actions and good product design can contribute to the fight against climate change. She has 10+ years of experience applying evidence-based insights to shape products, programs, and services for social impact across the world. Prior to joining Google she led an initiative designing and testing financial services for the underbanked in Sub-Saharan Africa, and worked to expand access to vaccines for children in lower income countries.

Jon Harmer

Product Manager, Google

Jon is a product manager at Google on the Gmail team, focusing on platform and extensibility features that enable rich integrations with Google Workspace, including AMP for Email, and Google Workspace Add-ons. Prior to Google, Jon worked for 20+ years as an executive leading product management and marketing teams for companies including Nexidia, EyeWonder, and Verio. He served as a mentor to startups at Atlanta Tech Village and Techstars and co-founded LaaSer Critical Communications.

Suelyn Yu

Global UX Design Lead, Sustainability, Google

Suelyn currently a UX Lead on the Global sustainability team, where she works with teams across google to build sustainability features in their products. For the past 10 years, she's been tackling problems in sustainable energy, politics, and education. She previously managed the UX team at Opower and consulted with Sunrun. She can advise you on UX strategy, user research, behavioral science, or do a quick design critique!

Micah Berman

Product & AI at Google.org

With nearly 8 years at Google under his belt, Micah manages Product and AI at Google.org, and was previously the Lead for Google.org's Impact Challenge. His passion is to interweave numbers, stories, and code, with the belief that doing so collaboratively is a win for the world.

Alexandrina Garcia-Verdin

Cloud Developer Advocate, Google

In her 8.5 years at Google, Alexandrina has helped hundreds of Google Cloud organizations in every phase of their growth, helping them scale their impact through cloud computing. She is also a co-organizer of Google’s grass-roots climate solutions group called Anthropocene which help build, nurture, and launch climate related products and research.

Alan Ranciato

Customer Engineer, Google Cloud

Alan is a 30 year resident of Tampa Bay. Has 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.

Roberto Barbero 

Cloud Solutions Architect (IoT/ML)

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.

Erik Saarenvirta

Cloud Data & Analytics Specialist

Erik is a cloud customer engineer on the Google Cloud team based out of Toronto with a data & analytics specialization. He covers primarily digital native companies in the Canadian region on GCP's suite of data and infrastructure related products which includes ML/AI.

David Cavazos

Developer Programs Engineer, Google

David wants to create a better user experience for other people and make things simpler. He’s passionate about making tools and information accessible, reducing complexity, and helping out with environmental use cases

Priya Verma

Senior Account Manager, Google

Priya has been at Google for 6+ years, currently working on the Retail team in Canada, supporting clients like Shopify with their digital marketing strategies. She is passionate about supporting incredible startups in Canada!

Jonny Silberman

Analytical Lead, Google

Jonny Silberman is an Analytical Lead at Google where he works supporting the Walmart business across measurement, analytics, and insights. Prior to Google Jonny was a digital marketer within the CPG world starting his career at Dannon Yogurt and then moving to lead Data Strategy and execution at Anheuser-Busch InBev. Jonny lives in the great city of Atlanta!

Riley Nelko

Senior Account Executive, Google

Riley has been with Google for 8-years, and has worked in a variety of business development, strategy, analytics and sales roles. He currently leads Google's digital acceleration program for large enterprise partners in Canada. In 2016, Riley worked on Google's product & engineering team for Android & Google Play in Europe, South Korea and Japan. Prior to joining Google, Riley was a consultant in Accenture's global strategy group. He focused on Corporate Strategy & M&A advisory across a number of industries. Riley graduated from Western's Richard Ivey School of Business.

Kirsten Thibault

International Growth Consultant, Google

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

Startup Content & Curriculum Lead, Google  

Jeremy is a fellow founder and startup CEO. He started and ran a company for seven years, and is now the lead of Google's startup content and curriculum program.

Elisse Roche

Independent Marketing Consultant 

Elisse Roche is an independent Marketing Consultant with over ten years of experience across the private and public sectors, specializing in purpose-driven marketing. While at Google, Elisse founded Google Cloud's inaugural "Data for Good" program to enable nonprofits and social entrepreneurs to apply big data solutions to real-world challenges. 

Nicole Froker

Partnerships Manager, Americas, Google for Startups

As Partnerships Manager for the Americas, Nicole looks after a portfolio of 25+ ecosystem partners, and works with them to bring the best of Google’s products, connections, and best practices to startup founders across the region. She has a passion for supporting underrepresented founders, and has spearheaded efforts to level the playing field for diverse founders with initiatives like the Black Founders Exchange, and by building out the team’s diversity partner portfolio. 

Kelli Wright

Carbon Associate, Google

Kelli is on the Global Sustainability team at Google and supports the development and management of the carbon strategy. Kelli leads the measurement of Google's operational carbon footprint and other key environmental indicators, and manages carbon credit procurement to maintain Google's carbon neutrality.

Kendal Smith

Program Manager, Fleet Efficiency, Google

As a Program Manager with nearly 7 years at Google under her belt, Kendal is an internal champion of innovation in corporate renewable energy. She helped launch Google’s 24x7 carbon-free energy initiative, and partnered with DeepMind to optimize the value of wind energy through emerging machine learning tools. She currently manages Google's fleet efficiency program. 

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.

Enjoy the Work Team

Enjoy The Work (formerly ETW Advisors) is a San Francisco-based startup advisory firm founded in 2014 by Jonathan Lowenhar. Our unique, hands-on approach to startup mentorship empowers founders to pick the right path. We provide informed counsel every step along the way, helping founders navigate the unknown in times of inevitable turbulence and uncertainty. We come from a variety of backgrounds — consumer Internet, enterprise SAAS, finance, sales, and more. But one fact remains consistent for all of our advisors: we have deep and successful startup experience both as founders and as early stage operators.

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.