At CapitalG, our investment strategy has always been defined by more than just funding. By leveraging our relationship with our single LP, Alphabet, we connect our founders directly to the people, resources, and insights at Google that drive global innovation.

For over a decade, this bridge has enabled thousands of Googlers to provide hands-on, highly customized support to leaders at companies like Stripe, CrowdStrike, Databricks, and Duolingo. Whether scaling product engineering or refining go-to-market strategies, our startups gain a unique competitive edge through this direct access to Alphabet’s elite talent.

Today, we are excited to announce CapitalG’s 2026 CapitalG Advisory Board. We welcome 8 new board members and are thrilled to continue working with 12 existing members. These exceptional leaders possess deep functional expertise in AI/ML, sales operations, marketing, data analytics, customer support and M&A, as well as extensive contacts across key industries such as financial services, enterprise technology, healthcare, entertainment, logistics, and the public sector. As needs and questions around AI continue to grow, our advisors are increasingly dedicated to providing strategic advice on AI fluency and transformation, helping our portfolio companies navigate and compete in this rapidly evolving era.

New Advisory Board Members

Chelsea Berlucchi

Director, North America Co-Sell

Chelsea brings 18+ years of sales and channel experience to the CapitalG Advisory Board, along with a keen sense of what it takes to build a strong go-to-market strategy. As the Director of the North America Partner Sales team, Chelsea focuses on driving end-to-end partner engagement with Google Cloud field teams and their customers to ensure best-in-class service and solution delivery.

Alicja Cade

Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud

As Senior Director, Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO) in Google Cloud, Alicja is responsible for shaping cloud security and compliance approaches for financial sector institutions and partnering with GCP clients throughout their security transformation.

Monisha Deshpande

Managing Director, Value Creation & Field Engagement, Google Cloud

With a career spanning over 20 years, Monisha has consistently worked at the intersection of business and technology. She currently leads Google Cloud's Value Creation & Field Engagement team, where she advises executives on how to deliver business value to their organizations. Her leadership has been pivotal to some of Google's most significant deals. A passionate advocate for leveraging AI to foster growth, she is also a thought leader on "AI Fluency." Her prior experience includes Google Ads, plus impactful roles at SAP, Cisco WebEx and American Express.

Gina Fratarcangeli

Managing Director, North America GSI Leader

Gina is a Global C-suite executive with three decades of experience in formulating transformative go-to-market strategies with previous executive roles at Accenture, IBM & Genpact. Currently serving as Managing Director and North America GSI Leader at Google, Gina manages $8B in channel revenue and is a recognized AI thought leader. She is the visionary behind the GSI AI Executive Council and the AI Startup Partner Accelerator, which was established to introduce high-potential startups to the GSI community. She is currently on the Board of the University of Michigan Zell-Lurie Entrepreneurship Institute, the Colorado Tech Association and on the Advisory Boards of numerous AI startups.

Eric Knapp

Managing Director, Google Cloud

As a Managing Director at Google Cloud, Eric is a transformative leader driving growth and innovation with the Strategic AI & Independent Software Vendor (ISV) team. With over eight years at Google and more than two decades of enterprise technology experience at Oracle and SAP, Eric enables clients to leverage cloud and AI solutions that drive business value and transformation.

Rebecca Michael

Senior Director, Marketing, Google Search and Maps

Rebecca is a seasoned global marketing leader with over 20 years of experience across B2B and B2C in both developed and emerging markets. She currently leads Global Marketing for Google Search and Google Maps, where she is playing a leading role in the AI transformation of these two iconic products. She oversees a full-stack marketing organization to drive breakthrough brand communications, core product marketing and strategic growth.

Abhishek Sinha

Senior Director, Vertex, Cloud AI

Abhishek is a Senior Director of Product Management at Vertex AI, leading initiatives across Model Garden, Inference, Customization, and Capacity. Prior to Google, he most recently served as Senior Director of Product Management at NVIDIA, where he built services to streamline Physical AI training and enhanced system benchmarking, as well as being the former VP of Products at Cohere where he played a pivotal role in scaling generative AI for enterprise use cases, spanning developer APIs to full-scale applications.

Granville Valentine

Managing Director, AI Sales & GTM, North America

Granville is Google’s Managing Director of AI Sales & GTM for North America. He leads Google’s AI Sales and Engineering teams, who align directly with executive leadership at companies across North America to drive the adoption of Google’s latest advancements in AI. Granville built and scaled Google Cloud’s AI Sales organization from its inception into a specialized team of hundreds of professionals across sales, engineering, and solution architecture. He previously led Google Cloud’s Strategic Accounts, orchestrating several of the largest contracts in the platform's history.

Returning Advisory Board Members

Scott Barneson

Managing Director of Startups, North America

Scott is Google’s Managing Director of Startups, North America where his team helps founders and builders invent the future with Google technology. Scott was previously Google's Managing Director of ISV Sales for 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.

Rohit Bhat

General Manager & Managing Director, Google Cloud Financial Services

Rohit is Google Cloud’s managing director of financial services, capital markets, exchanges and digital assets. An engineer by trade with expertise in business strategy, Rohit drives innovation and change across the financial services sector. He especially works with disruptive technologies such as generative AI, blockchain, and real-time risk, seeking ways to help customers leverage these technologies to advance market structure and improve operational efficiency. Outside of work, Rohit enjoys exploring new restaurants with his wife and spending family time in Chicago.

Dennis James

Director, Google Cloud Global Strategic Initiatives

Dennis is a Director of Global Strategic Initiatives at Google Cloud where he leads strategic partnerships to drive industry transformation and market growth. Dennis brings over two decades of experience as an executive leader in technology focused on maximizing the value of Cloud for Google’s customers. He has a unique background spanning strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, contractual negotiations, and professional services and is excited to lend his expertise to CapitalG portfolio companies. Prior to joining Google, Dennis worked as a management consultant and began his professional career as an US Army Infantry officer holding a variety of leadership positions and specializations.

Kyle Jessen

Managing Director, Power & Energy, Logistics, and South Region, Google Cloud

Kyle is Google Cloud’s Managing Director for the US Power & Energy and Logistics verticals, along with the South Region. His organization is chartered with helping Google’s enterprise customers leverage the full power of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and Google’s end-to-end portfolio of solutions. He has nearly 20 years of experience in enterprise software sales and was a general manager at Microsoft and an EVP at Qualtrics prior to joining Google.

Mike Kampel

Director, North Region, Google Cloud

With over 17 years of experience at Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, Mike has a breadth of experience helping organizations at all sizes drive revenue growth, streamline operations, and foster professional development. Mike is the director within Google Cloud’s North Region, where he leads an organization focused on bringing Google’s Artificial Intelligence, Security, Infrastructure and Industry Solution capabilities to enterprise customers. In this role, Mike leads a cross-functional organization focused on growing relationships with customers across priority verticals. Mike helps develop and implement comprehensive strategies across customers’ product, technology, and go-to-market functions. Decoding how AI can drive differentiated outcomes for customers has become an expanded focus within Mike’s team.

Scott Porter

Managing Director, Android Chrome Enterprise Partnerships, Google

Scott is Google’s managing director for partnerships spanning Android Enterprise, ChromeOS and Chrome Browser. Scott is responsible for partnerships across system on chip providers (SoCs), original equipment managers (OEMs), original design managers (ODMs), carriers and application developers across the consumer, education and enterprise segments. Prior to joining Google in 2021, Scott was an executive at Box and Hewlett-Packard where he held leadership roles overseeing business development functions, including strategic alliances and technology partner ecosystems.

Eric Schenk

Managing Director, Applied Innovation, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud

Eric is a distinguished engineer in the office of the CTO (OCTO) at Google Cloud. A seasoned executive with more than 30 years experience in the software industry as a manager and engineer, he is currently working with peers in the office of the CTO on collaborations that lead to breakthrough disruptions. His personal interests lie in helping key cloud customers discover new business possibilities through new technologies; sharing engineering and development methodologies, culture and tools; and disseminating emerging technologies that can enable new capabilities. He is also keenly interested in the potential for computing technologies to amplify human productivity.

Moritz Schoenheit

Global Head, AI Infrastructure GTM, Google Cloud

Moritz is the Global Head of AI Infrastructure GTM at Google Cloud where he is responsible for the growth, scale and adoption of Google Cloud’s AI Infrastructure (GPUs / TPUs) globally. Prior to his current role, Moritz led Google Cloud’s AI Native Business globally and drove strategic growth initiatives for North America. Before joining Google, Moritz held several leadership roles at SAP across strategy, operations and finance and started his career as a management consultant in Europe.

Tara Seppa

Managing Director, ISV GTM, Google Cloud North America

Tara is Managing Director of the ISV GTM within Google Cloud North America. Her organization supports Google Cloud’s most strategic and market-leading ISVs in the adoption and development of differentiated AI capabilities. As a member of CapitalG’s advisory board, she advises CapitalG portfolio companies on how to compete in the era of AI. Tara has spent more than 25 years as an executive technology leader and in that time, she has extensive experience living and working in emerging markets. Her experience spans supporting organizations ranging from seed-series startups to the Fortune 500.

Ritika Suri

Managing Director, AI & Data ISV Partnerships

Ritika is a managing director of data and generative AI technology partnerships at Google Cloud where she drives accelerated growth and business transformation with new and disruptive technologies. Ritika brings 25 years of experience as an executive leader in technology focused on growing and scaling software and cloud markets. Ritika has a unique background spanning enterprise sales, IT services, corporate development, M&A and venture capital.

Ryan Terry

Managing Director, Digital Transformation Officer for Healthcare and Life Science, Google Cloud

As the Managing Director and Digital Transformation Officer for Healthcare and Life Science at Google Cloud, Ryan leverages over 20 years of global executive experience, including prior leadership roles at Hill-rom and University Hospitals. He currently leads cross-Alphabet strategies and solution delivery to drive business value for customers and partners within the industry. A published industry expert with an MBA from Case Western Reserve, Ryan also serves as a strategic advisor and board member for various health administration and community organizations.

Jahn Wolland

Managing Director, Telco, Media & Entertainment and Gaming, Google Cloud

As the Managing Director of Google Cloud's Telecommunications & Cable, Media & Entertainment, and Gaming organization (TMEG), Jahn oversees a $1B+ P&L. Jahn's 20+ year sales leadership journey includes stints at Oracle, Microsoft, Yahoo, Snap, and most recently Google. Prior to Google, he was SVP, head of partnerships at MiQ, a programmatic media business focused on data science and advanced analytics, which was acquired by Bridgepoint in 2021.