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Ex-Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to lead Google Cloud
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IANS | 17 Nov, 2018
Indian-American Thomas Kurian, former Oracle President of product
development and a respected technologist, is going to head Google Cloud
from early next year, the tech giant has announced.
The current
CEO of Google Cloud Diane Greene will continue through January, working
with Kurian to ensure a smooth transition and will remain a Director on
the board of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
Hailing from
Bengaluru, Kurian who worked at Oracle for 22 years reportedly quit over
disagreements with Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison over the
future course of the company as Cloud business gets highly competitive.
"Kurian,
a respected technologist and executive, will be joining Google Cloud on
November 26 and transitioning into the Google Cloud leadership role in
early 2019," Greene said in a statement on Friday.
According to
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, under Greene's leadership, Cloud has become an
incredible business built on Google's decades of investment in
infrastructure, data security, and AI.
"We're really excited to
welcome Thomas whose product vision, customer focus, and deep expertise
will be a huge asset to our growing Cloud business," he said.
Under
Greene's leadership, Google Cloud has moved from having only two
significant customers and a collection of startups to having major
Fortune 1,000 enterprises betting their future on Google Cloud.
"We've
built a strong business together -- set up by integrating sales,
marketing, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Google Apps/G Suite into
what is now called Google Cloud," she noted.
Kurian said he "is excited to join the fantastic Google Cloud team at this important and promising time".
"I'm looking forward to building on the success of recent years as it enters its next phase of growth."
Kurian stepped down from Oracle in September.
A
member of Oracle's Executive Committee for 13 Years, he led
35,000-people software development team in 32 countries with an R&D
budget of $4 billion.
Kurian helped in the transformation of
Oracle's products with introduction of leading suite of Cloud Services,
led 60 software acquisitions and Oracle's 45 Cloud data centres.
His
twin brother, George Kurian, is CEO of California-based Hybrid Cloud
data services and data management company NetApp and a member of the
Board of Directors.
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