Kirsten Kliphouse has joined cloud giant
Google Cloud (GCP) in a move that is intended to extend the company’s presence in the market and enhance its ability to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure platform. Ms. Kliphouse takes the role of ‘President, North America’ - the first such role for the company. The move comes on the heels of CEO Thomas Kurian’s recent high profile investments including the recent acquisition of cloud storage provider Elastifile and the addition of former Oracle executive Eduardo Lopez to the Google Cloud executive team.
Ms. Kliphouse will be in charge of GCP’s sales efforts and she will be based at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, United States. Her objective will be to strengthen GCP’s position with SME’s and enterprises, but she will also be in charge of growing Google’s ‘G-Suite’ communication and collaboration tools solution. Ms. Kliphouse is a former Red Hat executive (SVP and General Manager) and held executive positions (including Vice President Enterprise Sales and Partners) at Microsoft for around 10 years. She was also the CEO and founder of Scaling Ventures, and before this, CEO of Yardarm Technologies.
"Kirsten and Eduardo are inspirational business leaders who will ensure we continue to build strong relationships with users, including HSBC, UPS, Whirlpool and many others," suggested Google Cloud’s President of Global Customer Operations Rob Enslin suggested in a discussion with CNBC. "Their expertise in running multi-billion dollar sales organizations and managing large teams will be invaluable as we focus on accelerating our growth."
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