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Adesola Sanusi

Adesola is a Product Manager on the Google Display & Video 360 team. Her primary focus is audio ads. She is responsible for increasing audio inventory access and improving audio buying features. Adesola holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Alexandre Blondin

Alexandre Blondin

Alexandre Blondin is the product manager for Ad Builder and inventory management.

Anjali

Anjali Raghavan

Anjali focuses on product strategy and commercialization for Google Analytics and data protection & privacy for measurement. She’s responsible for ensuring market needs are addressed in our roadmaps and that our customers and partners are able to make the most of our products.

Anjali joined Google in 2016 and has been focused on our Analytics products since. Prior to Google, Anjali was a product manager for the Oracle Marketing Cloud.

Ankit

Ankit Mishra

Ankit, a Global Product Lead, leads strategy and commercialization for Display & Video 360 product suite. He ensures advertisers have access to high quality, brand safe inventory in DV360. He is responsible for incorporating market needs in our roadmap so that customers are able to make the most of our products.

Ankit joined Google in 2014 and relocated to Ireland as a part of Account Management team for Booking.com in 2016.

Prior to Google, he led client relationship & web analytics team in a media agency (NetElixir). He holds an MBA degree from Hyderabad, India.

Ann Yih

Ann Yih

Ann is a product manager on Google's Display & Video 360 team in New York working on various features aimed at providing advertisers and agencies with efficient workflows and customizations.

Prior to joining Google, she worked as a product manager in the Bay Area. In her free time, she enjoys running outdoors and traveling. Ann holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and bachelor's of engineering from UCLA.

Breen Baker

Breen Baker

Breen has been a Product Manager on Google Analytics for 4.5 years, at Google for 6 years, PM'ing for 7 years, and in the web analytics industry since 2005 (GA's birth year).

Breen began his career as a consultant in the field at a small firm in Northern California, working at that time with multi-national clients to optimize their usage of the very solutions he is now responsible for building.

This makes Breen incredibly honored and excited every day to work for and improve the Google Analytics product and ecosystem, for our partners, our clients, and the end user.

Brian Kuhn

Brian Kuhn

Brian leads the engineering team responsible for Google Analytics tagging, Google Tag Manager, and the Global Site Tag (gtag.js).

Casper Verhoofstad

Casper Verhoofstad

I am Casper Verhoofstad born and raised in the Netherlands. I started in Google (Dublin) about 5.5 years ago, straight out of university, supporting our small and medium businesses customers on Google Ads. After 2 years I moved to Display & Video 360 as the first display account manager supporting the Benelux region and later the entire EMEA region in our partnerships team, working closely with our big 6 agencies and large global advertisers.

In 2017, I moved to NYC as a Global Product Lead commercializing our bidding and optimization features and recently, I joined our product management organization as the Performance Buying Product Manager.

Catherine Candano

Catherine Candano

Catherine Candano is Head of Data Platforms Partnerships, South East Asia. At Google Asia Pacific since 2011, Cathy specializes in data-driven growth through personalization & user experience, consulting with key executive analytics partners across 9 markets in the region. Her latest work on data-driven digital user experience has most recently been published in Information Management Resources Association's latest book on Web Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications 2016.

The past eight years before Google includes product management roles in a leading SEA telecom company's mobile broadband business, as well as digital outreach development across 40+ Asian countries with the United Nations.

Chip Hall

Chip Hall

Chip brings over 25 years of experience to his role as Managing Director, Google Platform Demand Channels at Google. Over the past 8 years, Chip has helped Google’s Marketing Platforms business generate 10x+ growth while establishing a global presence for programmatic Exchange buyers and GMP Channel Partners.

Before being acquired by Google in 2009, Chip was CRO at Teracent where he commercialized the company’s dynamic creative technology by acquiring such blue chip clients as HP, Target, Best Buy, CapitalOne, and American Airlines.

Chip received an AB in History from Stanford University and an MBA from UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Dan Florin

Dan Florin

Dan is a Global Product Lead for Google Marketing Platform focusing on Google Analytics and Google Optimize. He is passionate about enabling marketers to create amazing experiences for their customers in a data-driven way. He also helped launch the Google Analytics 360 Suite and has been at Google for 5 years. He is a tireless advocate for the customer, including improved integrations to help clients get more value from their investments.

Prior to joining Google in 2013, Dan was an investor in technology companies and helped advise clients on fundraising needs.

Dan Stone

Dan Stone

Dan is a senior product manager on Google Analytics.

Prior to joining Google, Dan's experience ranges from leading product and user acquisition in the startup-world to working with top 100 companies in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries on advanced analytics and marketing optimization.

Dan holds a B.S. in management science from MIT.

Daniel Waisberg

Daniel Waisberg

Daniel Waisberg is an Analytics Advocate at Google, where he helps Googlers & Users to makebetter decisions by giving them useful data & insights. He spends a considerable amount of histime analyzing and visualizing data to come up with interesting and actionable stories.

He is also the Founder and Editor of Online Behavior. He provides marketing techniques, tactics, and strategies to help website managers and analysts to be successful. The focus is on Web Analytics, Usability, Testing and Targeting.

Derek Dunfield

Derek Dunfield

Derek Dunfield is a Product Manager on Google Marketing Platform’s Creative Solutions team, focusing on combining the latest advances in machine intelligence with the natural ingenuity of creative agencies to build better ad experiences on the web.

Prior to ads, Derek was a Product Manager at Verily (formerly Google Life Science) and Planet Labs where he helped build and launch the largest constellation of earth-imaging satellites into space in less than 2 years.

Derek was an MIT Intelligence Initiative postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan School of Management and received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia, and his MSc in Physics from Queen's University, Canada.

Elisabeth Root

Elisabeth Root

Elisabeth Root is a Strategic Partner Development, Channel go-to-market leader who has been helping technology services and product firms make the transition to a cloud go-to-market model since 2012. Her background includes 10+ years in marketing and sales prior to entering the cloud partner landscape where she’s led Channel Partner Enablement, Strategic SI Partner Development and Cloud-based software (ISV) Business Development.

Elisabeth is passionate about helping emerging businesses take shape, grow and scale. She was employee #5 on the global AWS Partner Network team and joined Google Cloud late 2017 to drive development of the strategic System Integrator and Channel Partner ecosystem in the West.

Ewan Fisher

Ewan Fisher

Ewan is a Product Lead for Ads Data Hub based in London. He is responsible for the successful rollout of the product across EMEA and ensuring that partners feedback is globally represented.

Before joining Google, he spent 7 years working both client and agency side as Head of Digital where he focused on tech integrations with the then DoubleClick stack.

Fausto Ibarra

Fausto Ibarra

Fausto Ibarra is the Director of Product Management, Google Marketing Platform. He was also the Director of Product Management for Google Analytics 360 Suite and the Google Cloud Platform.  

Prior to Google, Fausto held executive management positions at Oracle, VMware, and Microsoft.

He has a MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and a MA international studies as well as a BS in Computer Science at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

 

Hetal Thakkar

Hetal Thakkar

Hetal Thakkar has been working on different parts of Google Analytics Backend for over 8 years. He is currently leading a team that manages all integrations in the Backend.

Prior to Google, he was a MTS at Oracle. He holds a Ph.D. in data stream processing from University of California in Los Angeles.

James Cote

James Cote

James is a Global Product Lead at Google focusing on Google Marketing Platform, Integration Center, and Google Analytics. He helps develop a unified global strategy and product roadmap.

 

He has a BS in Economics and Finance from Bentley University.

James Jones

James Jones

James Jones is the Global Product Lead in Google's Ads Product team. He has had 8 years of experience at Google across Sales, Tech and now Global Product lead - always working in performance audience targeting. He possesses Specialist knowledge of Dynamic ad formats.

He spent 3 of his last 8 years for Google in China, where he worked out of Shanghai looking after China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea offices, to help develop their Google Display Ads ecosystem.

James has a MSc in Business Management. 

James Parker - Jellyfish

James Parker

James Parker is the Global Head of Planning and Data for Jellyfish Online Marketing. He leads a team of planners, researchers and statisticians in using data creatively and effectively to drive best-in-class digital experiences.

Under James’ leadership, Jellyfish has built an innovative, data-driven team, helping clients to deliver the right message to the right person at the right time. Experts in measurement, the team subsequently measures campaign success within complex digital landscapes, using the insights to inform future projects.

 

Jason Krueger

Jason Krueger

Jason Krueger is the Product Manager for Search Ads 360 Autobidding. He was also the Product Operations Manager and Technical Account Manager for DoubleClick Search.

He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell  University.

 

Jason Xu

Jason Xu

Jason is a product manager working on Attribution at Google since 2016.

Prior to Google, Jason worked at Counsyl, a genetic testing company, and Oracle. Jason graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with degrees in Business Administration and Economics.

Jeremy Lewallen

Jeremy Lewallen

Jeremy is a Product Manager on the Google Marketing Platform. He has been with Google since 2016. His primary focus area is on linking and integrating Google measurement products.

Jeremy received his MBA from Wake Forest University and a BS in business administration and Management - Information Systems from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Jesse Savage

Jesse Savage

Jesse Savage currently leads product development for Google Analytics (Free & Paid). He has been with Google for over 12 years. He and his team have led numerous releases for Google Analytics ranging from making the product more user-centric, integrating with many of Google’s largest advertising products like with AdWords and DoubleClick, developing its audience, remarketing, and actionability capabilities, the first external API, a number of patent-pending technologies like the asynchronous tracking code.

Jessica Nussbaum

Jessica Nussbaum

Jessica Nussbaum is a lead on the Global Strategy and Commercialization team for Display & Video 360. She focuses on programmatic media consolidation and launching new channels.

She joined Google in 2011 and has worked on the programmatic suite since then. She holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business.

Jon Morgan

Jon Morgan

Jon Morgan is a Global Product Lead on the Google Display business working on cross-channel audience strategy, identity and privacy.

Currently based in San Francisco, Jon spent the last 4 years on the DBM sales team over in London and prior to that he spent the majority of his life over in Hong Kong.

Jon graduated from Leeds University in the UK with a Masters in International Business.

Jordan Canedy

Jordan Canedy

Jordan Canedy is a Product Manager on the Display & Video 360 creative solutions team. Our team focuses on creative authoring and management tools for advertisers and agencies. As a Product Manager, he works on efforts to drive better ad experiences and marketing ROI through creative formats innovation.

Prior to joining Display & Video 360, Jordan worked on Google’s telecommunications products such as Project Fi and Google Voice. Jordan holds a A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University.

Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni is the Education Director for Google's Platform and Apps businesses. His mission is to help people use Google's products more effectively.

Prior to Google, Justin was at Cardinal Path, one of the Google Partners.

Krista Seiden

Krista Seiden

Krista Seiden is the Analytics Advocate for Google and a Product Manager for Google Analytics, advocating for all things data, web, mobile, optimization and more.

Prior to this, Krista drove analytics and optimization at the Apollo Group and Adobe.

She holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a marketing certification from the Wharton Business School.

You can follow her blog at www.kristaseiden.com and on twitter @kristaseiden.

Kyle Foster

Kyle Foster

Kyle is a Senior Software Engineer on the Google Analytics Intelligence team. He focuses on ways to make data more accessible and understandable, leading natural language understanding efforts in Analytics.

Prior to Google, Kyle spent ten years in the CIA helping US policymakers make better data-driven decisions in various roles as a Data Scientist and Intelligence Analyst.

Kyle Harrison

Kyle Harrison

Kyle Harrison is the Group Product Manager for Google Analytics. He previously founded and led product management for Google Optimize.

During his 12 years at Google, Kyle has held product management leadership roles in several growth areas across the company, including YouTube, Ads and Payments.

Kyle holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Marwa Mabrouk

Marwa Mabrouk

Marwa Mabrouk is a product manager for Display and Video 360 Audience Module at Google. In her current role, she focuses on creating centralized Audience solutions for Marketers across the Google platform.

Previously, she worked on YouTube Revenue Share and Data Reporting.

Before joining Google, Marwa had a long career in creating tools, and solving problems using data analysis in Geospatial Technology, and Cloud Computing.

Marwa has an MBA from University of Redlands, and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Louisville. She is a strong advocate for enabling everyday non-technical users, to understand and use, the best of what Google has to offer in Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning capabilities.

Mary Pishny

Mary Pishny

Mary Pishny is a Product Manager on the Google Data Studio team. As a PM, she is working on building new data transformation functionality into the product.

Prior to joining the Data Studio team, she managed the Google Analytics 360 Suite Partner Program where she was responsible for program strategy, operations and partner education.

Before joining Google, Mary taught Algebra I through Teach for America.

Matt Matyas

Matt Matyas

Matt Matyas is a Google Marketing Platform product manager. With many years of technical and customer experience in ads and measurement, he's passionate about helping advertisers understand and maximize their marketing performance.

Mimi Do Forsythe

Mimi Do Forsythe

Mimi Do Forsythe is a Global Product Lead for Display & Video 360, leading commercialization efforts for the enterprise feature set including Data Transfer, Structured Data Files and the Write API.

Earlier this year, she led sales training & activation for the Google Marketing Platform launch. Mimi has been with Google in NYC since 2011 - prior to this role, she was part of our services organization where she developed technical expertise across Display & Video 360, Campaign Manager and Studio.

Before joining Google, she spent 4 years at a small healthcare consulting firm.

Minhaz Kazi

Minhaz Kazi

Minhaz Kazi is a Developer Advocate for Google Data Studio. A business intelligence veteran, Minhaz is always exploring new ways for developers to collect, analyze, and visualize data. He is available for long discussions on circular reference errors, benefits of pie charts, SQL commas, and the design of everyday things.

Neha Bansal

Neha Bansal

Neha is a Product Manager in Google Analytics. In this role, she leads product management for Analytics Intelligence within GA. She is very passionate about helping businesses improve by make GA easy-to-use and intelligent.

Prior to Google, Neha worked for five years in Management Consulting focusing on Fortune 200 Financial Services clients. Her core expertise enabled clients to use technology and data-driven approaches to meet their bottomline goals. 

Neha has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University in New York City. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics from LSR in Delhi University.

Nick Mihailovski

Nick Mihailovski

Nick Mihailovski leads product management for Google Data Studio.

Nicolás Celedón

Nicolás Celedón

Nicolás Celedón is the Google Data Solutions Lead for clients in the Travel, Education, Government and Gambling industries based in Australia and New Zealand. His day to day is the data integration & insights of all available platforms available in the market including Google Marketing Platform.

In the past he was working on User Experience and Conversion Optimization in the US & Latin America market.

Balachandar Krishnamoorthy

Balachandar Krishnamoothy

Balachandar Krishnamoothy is a Software Engineer who  joined Google in 2011. Currently he leads the core processing platform for Google Analytics and build backend for Data studio.

Balachandar has a Masters in Computer science from Georgia Tech.

Pawel Matkowski

Pawel Matkowski

Pawel Matkowski is a Product Manager for the Suite and Data Integrations. Over the past 6 years at Google he has worked with our users on the most cutting edge data solutions leveraging Google Analytics and Google Cloud Platform, from online to offline integrations, through lifetime value, weather patterns integrations and many others.

Praveen Krishnan

Praveen Krishnan

Praveen Krishnan is a senior product manager on the Optimize team. In this role, he leads product management and growth for Optimize.

Prior to Google, Praveen was co-founder of NoApp.io specializing in building conversational AI for enterprises, and led product management at several companies including Replicon & DemandTec.

Praveen has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Texas. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

Prema Sampath

Prema Sampath

Prema Sampath is the lead product manager on Ads Data Hub. She previously led Reach and Sales Lift Measurement products as a member of Google's Brand Measurement product team.

Prior to Google, Prema was Vice President of Product at YP.com leading their ad products. During her career, she has also held various positions at Bain Consulting, Sun Microsystems, and Intel Corp.

Prema is a member of the steering committee at the Los Angeles Women@Google group and volunteers with CoderDojo, a volunteer-led, community-based programming clubs for young people.

Prema holds an MBA with honours from UCLA Anderson School of Business. She also holds graduate degrees in engineering from Stanford and Purdue University.

Ryan Fitzgibbon

Ryan Fitzgibbon

Ryan Fitzgibbon is the Global Solutions Lead for Search Ads 360.

Satomi Jujo

Satomi Jujo

Satomi Jujo is a Global Product Lead for Attribution, leading commercialization efforts for Attribution solutions.

Scott Herman

Scott Herman

Scott Herman is a Product Manager on the Google Analytics team, in charge of Google Tag Manager.

He previously helped establish Google Analytics 360 services and support from the ground up, and led the product's global implementation team.

Prior to Google, Scott conducted research as a Fulbright Scholar in China.

He holds degrees in Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester, where he graduated with honors.

Sean Kransberg

Sean Kranzberg

Sean Kranzberg is the Engineering and Product lead for Google Web Designer. He has worked on content authoring tools for over 20 years.

Prior to his 6 years at Google he worked for Adobe and before that Macromedia on the Flash Authoring tool.

Shelley Chen

Shelley Chen

Shelley Chen is a Software Engineer on Google Data Studio.

Stefano Menti

Stefano Menti

Stefano Menti is the Global Product Lead for Google Analytics 360.

Sundar Dorai-Raj

Sundar Dorai-Raj

Sundar Dorai-Raj is a Data Scientist in Google Analytics. He and his team of data scientists work on projects related to revenue metrics, Analytics conversion export, Optimize, and much more.

Sundar has a Ph.D. in Statistics from Virginia Tech and specializes in machine learning and experimental design.

Tris Southey

Tris Southey

Tris Southey is the Product Manager on Search Ads 360.

Tris Warkentin

Tris Warkentin

Tris Warkentin is a Senior Product Manager for Google Display Ads Targeting, Automation, and Ads Quality. He leads Google's machine learning efforts to improve advertiser performance and deliver relevant advertisements to users at the moments that matter for maximum brand and ROI impact.

Prior to Google, Tris was a software engineering manager at IBM, where he worked on Retail and Consumer Products optimization science.

He graduated from Kenyon College with degrees in Psychology, Philosophy, and German Literature. 

Will Pryor

Will Pryor

Will Pryor has spent 18 years in the digital analytics industry specializing in both mobile and web analytics. As the Senior Global Partner Program Manager, Will oversees the partner programs for the Google Marketing Platform, MMM, Mediation, and Mobile App Attribution.

Prior to joining Google, he ran sales and business development teams at Sane Solutions, Unica, IBM, and Localytics.

He studied Business at the University of Rhode Island and is passionate about technology start-ups.

Will frequently advises young companies, VCs, and speaks to students at Universities on the exciting, fast-paced and growing digital analytics space.

Yumin Gao

Yumin Guo

Yumin Guo is a product manager of Display and Video 360 team in Google. He focuses on inventory access, exchange integration and inventory quality areas.

Before Google, he was a product manager of Microsoft, worked on multiple teams including Windows Azure, Bing Ads, and Customer Care Intelligence.

Alysha Delaney

Alysha Delaney

Alysha Delaney is the Digital Managing Partner for MBM New Zealand. Highly regarded in digital across both New Zealand and Australia, Alysha leads the digital competency and capability for MBM and regularly speaks at the request of key digital partners. Alysha joined MBM as a partner in May 2013, after establishing and leading the digital team for PHD New Zealand for seven years. Her focus is on the integration and activation of advertising and marketing technology products and solutions.

Prior to working agency side, Alysha held senior roles in Marketing, Strategy and IT for Telecom NZ, KPMG Consulting and IDC Research.

Chris Carter

Chris Carter

Chris Carter is Head of Analytics for MBM New Zealand. With a Doctorate in Marine Science from University of Canterbury, Chris has spent over 12 years working in commercial data analytics and joined MBM in early 2016 to lead the emerging analytics business.

With time spent as an analyst at agencies in New York and London, most recently Chris was Head of Web Analytics for a large US eCommerce retailer. Chris leads a team of consisting of analysts, data scientists and client service to provide Google Marketing Platform services to clients.

Rachel Gary

Rachel Gary

Rachel Gary is a Project Lead at MightyHive, responsible for providing strategic architectural insight and consultation to support clients’ holistic digital advertising strategies. When engaging with clients, Rachel brings a full range analytics and programmatic expertise from across the Google Marketing Platform. She works with clients across industries and has led platform implementations, creative productions, and management of cross-platform campaigns.

Scott Yacko

Scott Yacko

Scott Yacko, Senior Director, Data Science at MightyHive, leads the data science team and is responsible for data strategy, cloud architecture, and machine learning initiatives. Scott has expertise with statistical analysis and algorithm development in a variety of industries from aerospace to B2B SaaS. Scott has developed dozens of custom machine learning algorithms used for lead scoring, audience segmentation, and bidding optimization.

Sullivan McIntyre

Sullivan McIntyre

Sullivan McIntyre is a Director of Product Management at Salesforce. Working on the Marketing Cloud's Einstein & Analytics team, he works on the integrations with the Google Marketing Platform; particularly Analytics 360 and Optimize 360.

Previously he worked in Product Analytics and Customer Success roles in London and Sydney, and joined Salesforce through the acquisition of Radian6, a social listening provider, in 2011.

Pascal Trang

Pascal Trang

Pascal Trang is the Global Product Lead for the Google Audience Infrastructure.