Ms. Quinonez is a powerful Latina Trailblazer in Engineering building high performing teams and developing the next generation of leaders in the high tech industry. She is a passionate advocate and ambassador for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.

Her career in the high tech industry spans over 25 years in more than 10 countries, working at both enterprise and

startup companies including SAP, BEA Systems, and Informix Software. She has held leadership positions in solutions engineering, product management, marketing strategy, consulting, and business development.

Ms. Quinonez is originally from Mexico City, holds a BSc in Computer Science from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico) and an MSc in Information Systems from the London School of Economics (UK). She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two daughters.

Elle Odysseos is a B2B Marketing Leader with 10 years of international experience building Partner Marketing functions from the ground up in both San Francisco & London. She has demonstrated success driving revenue and customer growth through full lifecycle partner programs. She loves building & coaching teams to do their best work, and helping them map their career visions & dreams. She previously led both Field and Partner Marketing at Apttus and currently owns the Partner Marketing function at LinkedIn.

Jen is a Senior Technical Director in the Office of the CTO and leads the technology strategy for sustainability. She brings a passion for collaboratively innovating and inspiring customers to sustainably transform their organizations. Having spent her career leading engineering and product organizations, she focuses on the role of data and technology in modernizing, democratizing and accelerating data-driven cultures with a keen focus on building a sustainable future.

Prior to Google, Jen was the GM and VP of Manufacturing at GE Digital where she led product strategy and development to improve productivity and enable agility, rapid product innovation, higher quality, more efficient and eco-friendly processes. Prior to GE, Jen led product and engineering teams at Cisco Systems, Avid Technology and Pinnacle Systems.

Suresh Teckchandani is a Technology and Product executive with experience in eCommerce, Payments, and MarketPlaces industries. 20+ years of experience building large-scale, customer-facing, SaaS Products and Services, Technology Platforms, Cloud/Data Infrastructure, and MarTech stack in high-growth companies.

Trang brings 14+ years of experience working with consulting and technology firms to digitally transform enterprise companies. She has helped identify tech solutions for many companies in the Fortune 1000. Trang leads technology partnerships at HighRadius with a focus on go-to-market strategies with cloud partners. HighRadius is one of the fastest growing SaaS companies with AI driven autonomous solutions focused on transforming Office of the CFO.  

As an Executive on Google’s Cloud team and a board member for Altair (NASDAQ: ALTR), Jim has more than 25 years of experience with some of the world’s leading technology companies including Hewlett Packard (HP), Dell, and Cisco. Jim works with customers and partners to leverage emerging Cloud, AI/ML, and Data Analytics technologies to accelerate Digital Transformation through drive data-powered innovation. Jim is known for his experience in helping businesses, at an inflection point, take advantage of market transitions. Throughout his career (including 6 years with Global responsibility), Jim has been successfully running businesses that help customers leverage digital technologies to drive efficiencies and enter new markets. He has been selected as one of the “Most Influential Black Americans in Corporate America” (2020 Savoy Magazine) and a “Best of Biz 2015” award winner in the Executive of the year category. Jim also served a two-year term as a member of the GTM Advisory Board for CapitalG (Alphabet’s independent growth fund) where he helped emerging software companies transition from “start-up to scale-up.” He is currently the chairman of the Nominating and Governance committee for the board of Altair (ALTR). He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University as an All-Ivy athlete. He previously served as an Independent Board Director for the U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swimming as well as the Chairman of the Board for Make-a-Wish of Central Texas.

As Director of Customer Engineering, Alexis leads teams of technical experts passionate about helping customers leverage Google Cloud technology to achieve their business goals. Alexis has worked across the customer journey, pre- to post-sales, and believes firmly in building strong partnerships for mutual success.

A business first champion that supports company values and mission; his coaching philosophy drives high‐performing teams with an emphasis toward valuing team success above individual achievement, developing inclusive work practices, building ‘T’ shaped professional skills and constantly reinforcing the importance of business acumen in addition to functional expertise.

In his role as President, Jascha co-leads Lytics and is responsible for Go-To-Market, G&A, Customer Success and Commercial operations. Previously, at Mozilla, BitTorrent, Webtrends, Microsoft and more, Jascha has a strong track record of building robust brands with hockey-stick growth trajectories for new products.

Jascha is also producer and co-host of the podcast, This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. He published Growing Up Fast: How New Agile Practices Can Move Marketing And Innovation Past The Old Business Stalemates in 2014. He is a producer and Trustee at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and Whittier College, his alma mater.

year Intel veteran, Courtney spent the past sixteen years in field sales working with top multi-national customers and local OEMs. Prior to leading Team Alphabet she lead the Next Wave CSP team for the Americas covering ~60 CSP accounts including Apple, Salesforce, Uber, and Twitter. Courtney began her career at Intel in business operations supporting boxed processors. She also spent two years in Swindon, England in EMEA Operations. Courtney has both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Akshay is a Senior Cloud Business Consultant at Rackspace Technology with a focus on GCP cost optimization. He has built the Optimizer+ program for GCP and leads an advisory team which helps organizations using GCP to achieve cost efficiency and better visibility into cloud costs. He also provides guidance on appropriate pricing models and resource utilization within GCP that can help achieve cost/performance efficiency.

Tim Csontos is VP Strategic Alliances for Automation Anywhere, focusing on the company’s Google Cloud and top Private Equity partnerships. Prior to Automation Anywhere, Tim helped build what is now called Concur Travel, the #1 global business travel booking tool, which was acquired by Concur Technologies in 2006. A graduate of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, Tim resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Emily and daughters Annabel and Elizabeth Snow.

As Vice President of WW Solution Architecture at Palo Alto Networks, Omar's team is on the front lines of architecting secure and cyber-resilient cloud infrastructures through data security, network security, and workload protection, partnering with customers on their journey from code to cloud.

Until recently, Omar was Head of Partner Solutions Engineering for North America at Google Cloud. Over his 6+ year tenure, Omar built two cloud engineering teams that helped companies big and small transform to cloud-based architectures and become modern digital enterprises.

Prior to joining Google, Omar was Global Head of Technical Sales for Cloud Service Providers at Veritas. He also spent 7 years in EMEA building the solution engineering team that served Symantec's Emerging Markets region.

Omar is a business technology leader with international experience in high-growth markets from Emerging to Developed.

As Vice President of WW Solution Architecture at Palo Alto Networks, Omar's team is on the front lines of architecting secure and cyber-resilient cloud infrastructures through data security, network security, and workload protection, partnering with customers on their journey from code to cloud.

Until recently, Omar was Head of Partner Solutions Engineering for North America at Google Cloud. Over his 6+ year tenure, Omar built two cloud engineering teams that helped companies big and small transform to cloud-based architectures and become modern digital enterprises.

Prior to joining Google, Omar was Global Head of Technical Sales for Cloud Service Providers at Veritas. He also spent 7 years in EMEA building the solution engineering team that served Symantec's Emerging Markets region.

Omar and his wife Deena live in Los Altos with their 6-year old twin daughters Hana and Farah. Their favorite pastime is anything near, above, or under water. If it’s the weekend or a vacation, it’s usually somewhere near a beach or a pool.

Olga Leads GTM Strategy at Workspot managing key partnerships with Google, AWS, Intel and GSIs.

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Allen Leibovitch is a Senior Cloud Solutions manager at AMD, where he is responsible for go-to-market activities with Google Cloud. Prior to AMD, Allen has held product marketing and product management roles at leading semiconductor and server companies including Intel, Marvell, and Supermicro, with a particular focus on mobile, edge computing, and IoT. Before joining the industry, he built deep insights into the evolving technology landscape as an analyst with IDC, Gartner, and Oppenheimer, and he holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Scott is Google’s Managing Director of ISV Sales where he helps Google Cloud’s ISV partners grow their cloud business in North America. Scott has 20 years of experience building general management capabilities across sales, business development, product management, and engineering. Before joining Google, Scott spent 12 years at AWS where he built a number of functions and businesses at Amazon HQ in Seattle and across EMEA while based in London.

Mike Laramie is an Associate CTO for SADA. At SADA, his focus is on advising customers on their cloud security journey, identifying solutions that SADA can create and vendors SADA can recommend to customers in order to enable innovation in their security teams and meet their organizational goals. Prior to SADA, Mike has spent time at Lacework, Google Cloud, and Oracle. He is based in the Washington, DC metro area.

Eric has worked in different parts of digital security over the past 15 years, primarily focused on detection, response, and digital forensics. He previously worked at Google, helping develop security detection tools and securing internal corporate devices. He also worked at CrowdStrike as an Incident Response consultant. Currently, he is at Niantic, working to remove implicit trust from corporate networks and establish stronger identity-based controls to every layer they can be added. Outside of work, Eric spends time with his wife and 3yo son or reads whatever is next on his to-read shelf.

Rich is a VP at ScyllaDB, currently focused on leading a team in the Western half of the US. He has been with ScyllaDB since June of 2019 and prior to that spent 15+ years at MySQL as both an individual contributor and sales leader. Rich brings extensive experience helping customers solve their infrastructure challenges around databases, especially for those making the transition to cloud and managed services in the cloud. He also enjoys helping others to scale and operationalize their businesses in the cloud. Rich currently lives in Southern California and is a self-proclaimed foodie and enjoys creative pursuits and outdoor activities both here and internationally.

Stacie spent the first 15 years of her career in Finance, predominately in the Retail industry. In her current role as the leader of the Business Robotics Process Automation Center of Excellence (BPA COE) at Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.), Stacie is responsible for bringing process excellence and automation to the global LS&Co. organization. This BPA COE has been responsible for saving LS&Co. employees over 40,000 hours of manual effort since she established it in mid-2020.

Melissa McGuire (she/her) is a Director of Google Cloud Sales focused on high growth Enterprise accounts. She has worked at Google for ten years in various leadership roles including Google Marketing Platform (DoubleClick) and Cloud. Melissa is a passionate people leader who loves to develop and coach talent while scaling best practices beyond her organization. Prior to Google she spent most of her career selling ERP and CRM solutions at Oracle and SAP. Outside of work, she enjoys logging a lot of time on her Peloton, attending her sons sporting events and spending time with her husband and Labradoodle.

Gerald Cowen (he/him) is a security-focused Google Cloud customer engineer based in Austin, TX and the global customer lead for the Risk Protection Program, Google Cloud’s cyber insurance partnership with Munich Re. During his 4 years with Google Cloud, Gerald has worked with customers of all sizes as both a technical advisor and advocate for secure cloud adoption. Prior to joining Google, Gerald was a customer engineer for Citrix supporting enterprises to architect and deploy networking, security, and resilience software. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. Gerald’s technical certifications include Google Cloud Professional Architect and Google Cloud Security Engineer. He is also an original co-author of the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam, awarded to over 40K deserving learners.

As the Group Product Manager for ITS Platform Capabilities, Adam leads the strategy and product management teams for the following platforms : Analytics Data, Enterprise Integration/Automation, APIxchange, Customer Identity, and Search. Adam is passionate about driving digital transformation through a product management mindset and relentless focus on customer and employee experience/success. Prior to joining Splunk, Adam was a leader in launching innovative platforms that democratized learning for higher education. He led the product development and launch of the transformative platform Opencast that offers a flexible, reliable, and scalable open-source video/audio capture, management, and distribution system. Opencast has been adopted by 100+ international universities to provide on demand course lectures and events. Adam had also led the launch of University of California’s cross campus online course platform which allows students to benefit from courses across one of United State's largest university systems.

Brandon Downey is the manager of the corporate security team at Niantic. He has worked in defensive security in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, beginning his career building managed security services for several large datacenter companies, then for a decade for Google's security operations, and now leads the team responsible for protecting Niantic's internal systems and networks.