April 8 2025
Global Indian Industry 2026

The Architect Who Built Google Cloud Into the World’s #1 AI Platform

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THOMAS KURIAN,
CEO-GOOGLE CLOUD

 

Born in Kerala, twin brother of NetApp CEO George Kurian, Thomas Kurian graduated summa cum laude from Princeton before spending 22 years at Oracle leading a team of 35,000 as President of Product Development. Joining Google Cloud in 2019 when it ranked #9 in Cloud Wars, his relentless customer-first philosophy elevated it to #1. At Google Cloud Next 2026, he declared enterprises are now entering the agentic era — transforming $20 billion quarterly cloud revenue into the world’s most complete enterprise AI platform.