With three years under his belt as CEO of Google Cloud, by now Thomas Kurian’s stamp on the organization is clear. That was one of the subthemes of last week’s Google NEXT conference.
As a cloud provider that’s had a later start than Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, it shouldn’t be surprising that Google Cloud has been on a hiring spree. But it’s notable, especially at the upper management level, that many of the recent hires have come from the ranks of established enterprise vendors. The latest is Gerrit Kazmaier, formerly of SAP, as head of Google’s Data and AI Cloud.
