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.
