About

Rahul Ramchandani is a seasoned digital transformation professional with over 14 years of experience in the industry. He firmly believes that the integration of Google Cloud and Google Ads is crucial to achieving a 10X digital transformation, driving business results, and building a sustainable competitive advantage. Rahul has had the unique opportunity to work with the CIO at Google Cloud and the CMO at Google Ads and Google Shopping, helping Google's largest customers transform their businesses by working closely with both IT and Marketing. Rahul has worked in diverse roles, including as a practitioner, in sales, and in partner development, achieving hockey stick growth in all stints. He has built and led high-performance teams that have helped him achieve his goals. Currently, Rahul is helping build the most partner-centric GTM for the industry's fastest-growing Cloud player. In his previous role at Google, he advised CXOs of Google's largest clients on transforming their digital strategy, breaking down silos in Marketing, and achieving a unified view of their customers across marketing channels and devices. Rahul is passionate about making advertising useful for the consumer, helping them decide in the moments that matter, and not something considered intrusive, irrelevant, or disrespectful. He has helped marketers make their practice more efficient and accountable, and more core to the strategy of their business. Rahul strongly believes that Marketing and IT can be transformed into revenue drivers as Cloud and Ads come together, with unique synergies under OneGoogle. Rahul has been an Advisory Board Member for California State University's Digital Marketing for Executives program, where he provides thought leadership, advises on curriculum, coaches, and mentors future leaders. Before joining Google, Rahul played an instrumental role in building India's second-largest e-commerce almost from scratch, in a completely ROI-positive manner. Rahul has been featured on CNN Money and Fortune magazine for one of the “6 ideas for changing the world”. He has been awarded the Best Digital Marketing Professional Award by the CMO Council and World Brand Congress, as well as a "Role Model for 2018" for the World Marketing Congress. Rahul has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Marketing from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research and a B.Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from GGSIPU. He has also attended Army Public School in New Delhi and Pune and Bishop's School in Pune. Rahul's tech stack includes CNN, GCP, and Mobile.