Virginia Sharma to head India marketing for Google Cloud

Virginia Sharma has been appointed to head the India marketing for Google Cloud. Sharma was previously associated with JioSaavn where she was responsible for driving the adoption of JioSaavn’s advertising solutions for brands and overseeing agency and client relationships.

Prior to JioSaavn, Sharma was with LinkedIn as sales director, marketing solutions. She was associated with the organisation for about six years. Before LinkedIn, Sharma worked with IBM as well in different roles including vice president, marketing, systems and technology group; CMO India/VP, marketing and communications; director, marketing and communications, software; among others.

An Indian School of Business alumnus, Sharma has been in the marketing domain since 1999. As per her LinkedIn updates, She has recently joined Google to lead Cloud marketing for the region, after 8 years in business leadership roles in consumer technology companies like JioSaavn. I am very proud of the high performance and gender balanced sales and servicing teams I built as a business leader. I am known as a "systems thinker with empathy" who helps companies scale up from 1 to 10 and do more with less.

I also successfully defended my doctoral thesis crisis leadership and gender identity in late February 2022 and working towards publishing my research findings in the coming year alongside my academic mentors from ISB.