CRN breaks down six significant recent executive departures and hires at Google Cloud, including the exit of Google’s Kubernetes leader and the hiring of Microsoft’s former corporate vice president.

From the departure of Google Cloud’s Kubernetes and serverless general manager to the hiring of Microsoft’s former corporate vice president, Google Cloud’s top executive lineup continues to shift.

The $41 billion Mountain View, Calif.-based cloud giant is battling against the largest tech companies in the world in acquiring top talent. Google Cloud, for example, was able to recently hire one of Amazon Web Services’ AI and machine learning all-star executives.

However, several Google Cloud executives have exited the company to take top roles in competitors such as AI cloud provider CoreWeave.

CRN breaks down three key new executive hires and three recent top employee departures at Google Cloud that you should know about.

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Chen Goldberg

Former Google Cloud Position: GM And VP, Kubernetes and Serverless

New Position: SVP of Engineering, CoreWeave

Chen Goldberg was general manager and vice president of Google Cloud’s Kubernetes and Serverless business for the past three years. She was a senior director and vice president of engineering at Google since 2016.

“Together, we have embarked on groundbreaking projects like Kubernetes, GKE and Serverless, which have significantly advanced our customers’ digital transformation and left a lasting impact on the cloud-native industry,” said Goldberg in a recent LinkedIn post announcing her departure which garnered over 275 comments. “It’s been an honor to contribute to Google Cloud’s journey, building a culture centered around customer empathy and leveraging everyone’s unique talents and insights.”

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Goldberg joined CoreWeave a few weeks ago as its new senior vice president of engineering.

“I’ve watched CoreWeave grow exponentially over the last year – light years ahead of the competition,” she said. “I’m incredibly excited to join this talented team as we accelerate CoreWeave’s world-class product development and offerings.”

Before joining Google Cloud, Goldberg was director of engineering for HPE’s software business.

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Vittorio Sanvito

New Position: COO EMEA

Former Position: AWS Managing Director EMEA

Vittorio Sanvito joined Google Cloud this month as chief operating officer for the company’s entire EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.

Sanvito will drive Google Cloud’s go-to-market execution strategy for all EMEA sales. He will lead Google’s Strategy & Operations Team, Deal Processing Office (DPO) and the Office of the EMEA Cloud President.

Prior to joining Google Cloud, Sanvito was managing director of AWS’ EMEA Consulting Partner Organization. He was responsible for recruiting, on-boarding, certifying and building sustainable AWS practices with partners to meet the needs of customers.

He initially joined AWS in 2018 as COO for EMEA.

Sanvito’s IT career includes just over 20 years at HPE in top executive roles in the EMEA region.

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Sachin Jain

Former Google Cloud Position: Vice President, Google Cloud

New Position: Chief Offering Officer, CoreWeave

Sachin Jain led the capacity planning and optimization of all of Google Cloud’s services worldwide as vice president of the company for the past several years.

Jain said his Google team was responsible for business metrics around customer experience, in stock, infrastructure costs and efficiencies. From 2020 to 2024, he also led the overall data center capacity planning and supply chain engineering system for parent company Alphabet, he said on LinkedIn.

Last month, he joined CoreWeave as its new chief operating officer (COO).

“The opportunity to join one of the hottest players in AI cloud today is incredibly exciting,” Jain said in a recent LinkedIn post. “I look forward to working with the entire team as we look to capitalize on CoreWeave’s industry leading position and scale to the next level.”

Prior to Google Cloud, Jain spent 18 years at Amazon in top executive roles.

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Saurabh Tiwary

New Position: GM and VP, Google Cloud AI

Former Position: Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

Google Cloud hired 11-year Microsoft veteran and top Copilot executive Saurabh Tiwary as its new general manager and vice president for Google Cloud’s AI business.

Tiwary was formerly corporate vice president of Microsoft where he led a team of software engineers, product managers and scientists to help build the Microsoft Copilot AI experience. His leadership around Copilot touched various business units including Microsoft 365, Windows Copilot, Bing and more, according to his LinkedIn profile.

In his new position at Google Cloud, Tiwary is responsible for the Cloud AI business unit that includes Vertex AI, Kaggle, Colab, and AI Studio. Additionally, he is leading the partnership with Google Deepmind to bring Gemini and Gemma innovation to Google developers.

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Baskar Sridharan

Former Position: VP of engineering, Google Cloud

New Position: VP of AI and ML services and infrastructure, AWS

Google Cloud’s Baskar Sridharan recent left to become AWS’ new vice president of artificial intelligence and machine learning services and infrastructure.

Sridharan now plays a critical role in leading AWS’ AI and generative AI strategy, including for Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, core data services and ML infrastructure for developing deep learning frameworks and engines.

Sridharan spent over five years at Google Cloud, most recently, as vice president of engineering for the Google Cloud Platform. He managed the engineering team for Google Compute Infrastructure as well as several product management teams within Google Cloud.

Prior to Google, Sridharan spent over 15 years at Microsoft in top engineering roles. He departed Microsoft in 2018 as partner director of Software Engineering for Microsoft’s Azure Data Lake and Cosmos business units.

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Stéphane Taine

New Position: Vice President of Product, Google Cloud

Former Position: Head of Product, Meta

In July, Google Cloud hired former Meta product leader Stéphane Taine as vice president of product. He is tasked with helping to lead Google’s Identity and Engagement business.

From 2014 to 2023, Taine led product management for Messenger and Instagram at social media giant Meta. He led product vision and innovation for Messenger which became highly popular at Meta during his tenure.

He was a Principal Program Manager lead at Microsoft for eight years tasked with Skype for Business server migration from on-premise to Microsoft Office 365.

Taine joined Google Cloud after a one-year stint at dating app maker Hinge, with the title of chief product officer.