Kawal Gandhi

Gandhi has been at Google for over a decade, most recently leading the product operations organization for Ads and Commerce. He and his team were responsible for all launches, improving serviceability and driving adoption of Google brand, platform and performance products - a portfolio of over 100+ products and 300+ launches a quarter with 80B annual impact. Before, his current role he managed the search and ads vertical teams (shopping, hotel and flights) which grew from $110M to $2B under his leadership. Prior to Google Gandhi was Chief software architect at XenSource (oCTO - Citrix) and an early employee at Marimba (CTO - BMC Software). Gandhi’s passion lies in taking and delivering on big, audacious goals and he sees the huge opportunity in bringing the Google Cloud, AI and ads product offering, along with advertisers and teams together to deliver on this vision. Gandhi has a Masters in Computing and Operations (advanced program and executive leadership management) - Stanford. In his free time Gandhi loves to tinker with his son and advise upcoming startups. He is on several startups and Nonprofit boards.