An investment from CapitalG has always extended far beyond capital alone. By leveraging our relationship with our single LP, Alphabet, we are able to bring the magic of Google – its incredible people, resources, and insights – directly to our startup partners. Over the past dozen years, we’ve seen firsthand how pairing the world-class talent of Google and Alphabet with a select group of extraordinary founders can help accelerate those founders’ businesses in a meaningful way.

Over the past dozen years, more than 3500 Googlers have advised over 4500 employees at leading CapitalG-backed companies such as Stripe, Monzo, CrowdStrike, Databricks, Duolingo, Airbnb, UiPath, and Zscaler, providing them with consistent, highly customized advice and hands-on support in the areas of product & engineering, go-to-market, and people & talent.

Today we are proud to announce the 2025 CapitalG Advisory Board. These exceptional Google 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. Their new customer and partner introductions and expert strategic guidance will help our portfolio companies deploy the newest technologies–from Cloud to AI–and utilize the industry’s best practices to meaningfully accelerate their businesses.

We are delighted and grateful to welcome this accomplished group of technology leaders to the 2025 CapitalG Advisory Board to help our portfolio companies achieve even more success and fully realize their tremendous potential.

New Advisory Board Members

Tina Babbi

Director, Google Cloud, North American Business Development

Tina Babbi is the Director of Google Cloud’s North American Business Development team where she leads a team of business development professionals with responsibilities for targeted, strategic pipeline development in support of the field sales organization’s priorities. Her team works with customers that range from new to Google Cloud to its largest customers, creating new opportunities to engage across the Google solution portfolio. Tina is excited to bring her 35 years of technology sales and marketing expertise to CapitalG portfolio companies.

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. Outside of work, Dennis enjoys marathon training, traveling, and spending time with his wife and two children.

Albert Lee

Senior Director, Corporate Development, Google

Albert Lee brings 20+ years of strategy, M&A, investment, and finance leadership experience to the CapitalG advisory board. As Senior Director of Corporate Development at Google, Albert leads corporate development efforts for Google Cloud and YouTube and oversees the Strategy & Scouting team. Since joining Google in 2011, Albert has worked on 70+ deals (M&A & strategic investments) with $20B+ in deal value, including the acquisitions of Looker, Apigee, Mandiant, Firebase, and Nest. Prior to Google, Albert worked in corporate development at Cisco Systems and Oracle, in private equity at Francisco Partners, and in investment banking at Lehman Brothers.

Craig Martin

Managing Director, Strategy and Select Accounts, Mandiant

Craig Martin is an experienced executive with 20+ years of experience in strategic planning and transformation, systems integration and cyber security implementation and operations. He currently serves as Managing Director of Strategy and Select Account for Mandiant, the cyber security consulting component of Google. Craig is an established cyber security practitioner with deep experience leading Fortune 100 and US Government clients through post-breach transformations and advising client leadership at the board, C-suite and operational levels. Prior to joining Mandiant in 2020, Craig was a Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led commercial go-to-market teams. Craig has a MS in Software Engineering and a BS in Information Systems and is a military veteran.

Darren Mowry

Managing Director, Global Startups

Darren Mowry is a senior executive with 25 years of global technology and management consulting experience at Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Accenture. In his current role as Managing Director at Google Cloud, Darren is responsible for the company's global Go-To-Market approach for startups. This includes leading the sales and customer engineering functions that provide an excellent customer experience to founders at all stages of maturity. Darren also leads Google Cloud’s global Venture Capital and Private Equity function, along with global Startup Accelerators/Incubators and Startup Ecosystem Programs.

Osi Peters

Senior Director of Engineering, Map The World, Google Geo

Osi Peters is a Senior Director of Engineering for Map the World at Google Geo. He is responsible for technical strategy and execution of the Google teams that build StreetView cars and Aerial fleets, leveraging satellite imagery and cutting edge AI/ML research to build the geospatial map of the world. This map provides the geospatial data that powers products used by billions of monthly users, including Google Maps, Search, and other flagship products.

Before joining Google, Osi was simultaneously VP of Data and Shared Services Engineering and Head of Analytics and Data Science/ML at TripAdvisor overseeing both their B2C and B2B businesses.Osi is also a part-time angel investor and spent six years as core venture partner for Underscore VC.

Moritz Schoenheit

Global Head of AI Infrastructure GTM, Google Cloud

Moritz Schoenheit 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. He started his career as a management consultant in Europe. Moritz holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Trier and is a Harvard Business School alumnus. Originally from Germany, Moritz is based in Atlanta where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

Tara Seppa

Director of Strategic AI and ISV GTM, Google Cloud North America

Tara Seppa is Director of Strategic AI and 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. Tara earned her degree in Computer Information Systems from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and spent the first few years of her career as an application developer.

Ajit Thomas

Director, Strategic Channel Partnerships, Google Cloud

For over two decades, Ajit Peter Thomas has spearheaded the development of high-growth technology businesses through strategic partnerships. He has a proven track record of scaling businesses from early-stage startups to established enterprises. In Ajit’s current role as Google Cloud's Director of Strategic Partnerships, he guides partners through critical sell-to-service transformations and global restructurings, ensuring they maintain their focus on revenue growth, operational excellence, and competitive market positioning. He previously served as a Managing Director at Accenture for nine years, where he drove success in the startup ecosystem through key technology, product development, corporate strategy, and general management advisory services.

Returning Advisory Members

Doruk Aytulu

Director, ISV GTM and Marketplace, EMEA, Google Cloud

Doruk is the Director of ISV GTM and Marketplace, EMEA. He leads Google Cloud's EMEA ISV Team, which provides go-to-market support to Google Cloud's strategic global ISV partners and develops Google Cloud’s EMEA ISV ecosystem. Doruk has more than 10 years of co-sell and ISV go-to-market experience with hyperscaler cloud platforms in North America and EMEA. Previously, he worked at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory commercializing early-stage technologies and was the co-founder of a TechStars-backed startup.

Scott Barneson

Managing Director, ISV Sales & Partner GTM, Google Cloud

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.

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.

Melanie Bragg

Managing Director, Strategic Customer Experiences, Google

Melanie Bragg is a recognized leader in customer engagement strategy who helps enterprise organizations drive revenue growth and build long-lasting client relationships. As the Managing Director of Strategic Customer Experiences at Google Cloud, Melanie helps organizations develop high-performing teams and optimize go-to-market strategies to scale their customer engagement efforts and meet business priorities. Before joining Google Cloud in 2020, Melanie spent 20 years at Cisco Systems, where she rebuilt the Customer & Partner Engagement organization and led the Insight Innovation and Strategic Communications teams.

Penny Chu

Senior Director, Ads Marketing Analytics, Google

Penny is a Senior Director of Google's Ads Marketing Analytics team where she leverages insights, data science, machine learning, and rigorous experimentation to inform Google’s ads marketing efforts and drive growth of the Google Customer Solutions (GCS) business. She previously worked as the Senior Director of Google’s Advanced Ads Measurement Technologies team where she worked closely with some of Google's biggest customers on their custom Ads measurement priorities. Before joining Google, she was a technology investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston where she worked on Google's IPO.

Pallab Deb

Managing Director, Solution System Integrators & Industry Value Networks, Google Cloud

Pallab has over 20 years of experience managing global tech services businesses, most recently as managing director of solution system integrators (SIs) & industry value networks, where he built the function for Google Cloud. Before joining Google in 2019, Pallab was a longtime executive at Wipro where he ran multiple global functions and most recently served as the VP and head of data, analytics and AI.

Irina Farooq

Senior Director, Data Analytics Product Management, Google Cloud

Irina is Google Cloud’s senior director of product for data analytics, where she leads product management and strategy for BigQuery and Open Source Analytics. Irina has over 15 years of product leadership experience across a variety of sectors, including data & analytics, AI/ML, enterprise software, networking, IoT, and cloud. Prior to joining Google in 2020, she was the chief product officer at Kinetica and vice president of products and strategy at Riverbed Technology.

Joanna Goldblatt

Managing Director, Data, Measurement & Analytics, Services Sector

Joanna leads Google’s data, measurement & analytics organization as part of the large customer sales group where she focuses on customers across apps, tech B2B, home & consumer services, education and lead generation categories. A 16-year veteran of the digital advertising space, Joanna excels at helping large marketing teams adapt to the future of measurement. In addition to consulting on ways to improve measurement and audience identification capabilities, Joanna is an invaluable partner to marketing teams navigating online user privacy requirements.

Brian Goldstein

General Manager, Strategic AI and ISVs, Google Cloud

Brian Goldstein is the General Manager of Google Cloud's Strategic AI and ISV Vertical. This team is responsible for bringing Google Cloud’s entire portfolio of solutions to ISVs across North America. Brian’s organization also works hand in hand with these important ISVs to create a better together outcome for our shared customers. This organization also focuses on helping model builders and ISVs leverage Google’s differentiated accelerator chip solutions to create effective training and inference outcomes. He brings to his role 28 years of experience in team leadership and professional technology sales. He is also the founder and CEO of his own consulting company, Maplevizory, which helps seed-stage engineering founders overcome the challenges of building a sales function. Before joining Google, Brian served as a Vice President at Oracle where he led a team focused on SaaS business applications.

Nic Hepton

Senior Director, Google Global Talent Engagement

Nic leads talent engagement for Google, which identifies, connects, and activates talent communities for Google's global opportunities. Nic has over 20 years of experience in talent management, candidate experience, recruiting, employment brand, talent attraction, scaled sourcing, talent systems, and organizational strategy. Previously, Nic led global recruiting organizations for Google Cloud, SAP and Concur.

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.

Shelby Johnston

Director, Partner Ecosystem and Mid-Market Enterprise

As a GTM advisor to CapitalG, Shelby Johnston guides software companies in building their go-to-market strategies with Google Cloud. In her full-time role as Director of Google Cloud's North America Channel and Ecosystems team, Shelby drives growth for Google's service partners and the Mid Market Enterprise segment. Her 20-year tenure at Google spans diverse leadership roles, including heading the North America ISV business, leading teams within the Google Marketing Platform, and 15 years within the advertising organization. Now in Google Cloud, she brings her extensive experience to the company's fastest-growing division.

Shelby's leadership drove significant expansion within Google Cloud. In 2022, she launched a new ISV organization, achieving double-digit growth and establishing the strategic foundation for 2023. Building on this, she delivered impressive growth for her billion-dollar managed services business in 2023, while also facilitating 70% of new Google Cloud customer acquisitions through channel partnerships. In 2024, her focus on AI resulted in a remarkable 3x growth in the CloudAI sector, achieved through close collaboration with partners to develop their AI go-to-market strategies.

Mohit Jolly

Vice President, Ads & Commerce Growth Marketing and Martech

Mohit Jolly is the Vice President of Ads & Commerce Growth Marketing and Martech at Google. He leads a multidisciplinary organization of growth marketers, engineers, and product leads who are responsible for driving significant revenue growth and scaled engagement for all advertisers and merchants within Google’s Ads and Commerce product portfolio.

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.

Josh Marcuse

Director, Strategic Initiatives, Office of the CEO of Google Public Sector

Josh Marcuse is the Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the CEO of Google Public Sector. He joined Google in 2020 and has led teams in business development and public sector strategy and innovation in the U.S. and abroad. Previously, he served as executive director of the Defense Innovation Board, a group of distinguished leaders tasked with bringing the technological and cultural innovations of Silicon Valley to the Department of Defense (DoD). Josh also served as the innovation advisor to the DoD CTO and held various roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). Prior to DoD, Josh worked at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Anthony McMahon

Managing Director, Partners and Corporate Business, APAC, Google Cloud

Anthony is Google Cloud’s managing director overseeing partners and the corporate customer segment for the Asia-Pacific region. He has more than 35 years of experience in global technology, airlines, and logistics and excels in helping companies–from large multinationals to pre-IPO growth-stage firms–accelerate profitable growth through effective sales and go-to-market strategies. Prior to joining Google Cloud’s APAC leadership team, Anthony held executive leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard (HP), SAP and GitLab.

Scott Porter

Managing Director, Android Chrome Enterprise Partnerships, Google

Scott Porter 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 Google Cloud’s managing director of applied innovation within the office of the CTO (OCTO.) He has more than three decades of experience leading teams that build breakthrough software tools and platforms for creators of all kinds. Eric’s work spans operating systems, networking, computer graphics and animation, computational physics, distributed computation, and applied AI. Within Google Cloud, he leads a team of developers who test early-stage “art of the possible” concepts inspired by the intersection of the bleeding edge of current technological capability with the potential to solve some of Google Cloud’s most complex customer problems.

Shannon Stark

Managing Director, Solutions and Thought Leadership, Google Americas

Shannon is Google’s managing director of solutions and thought leadership for the Americas. An accomplished solutions engineer with over 20 years of leadership experience in fast-paced startup and enterprise environments, Shannon leads over 100 sales support specialists focused on driving Google Marketing Platform adoption and revenue. With a background in enterprise selling, sales engineering, and value consulting, Shannon excels in driving tactical processes and generating deep engagement for enterprise-wide impact.

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, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Google Cloud

Ryan is Google Cloud’s managing director for healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) where he is responsible for the North American strategy and commercial business. He brings over 20 years of healthcare and life sciences technology, transformation, research, development, and operations experience to his advisory role with CapitalG. Prior to joining Google Cloud, Ryan held global executive roles in the medtech and diagnostics industry and served as division chief information officer (DCIO) and chief information security officer (CISO) to University Hospitals Health System.

Jahn Wolland

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

Jahn is Google Cloud’s managing director of telecommunications & cable, media & entertainment, and gaming (TMEG). With over 20 years of experience in sales leadership at Oracle, Microsoft, Snap, and Yahoo, Jahn is an expert in scaling go-to-market organizations and aligning technical solutions to drive outsized business impact. He is an investor and advisory member to several technology startup companies and a sought after public speaker.