Cloud n Clear

Kelly Harlan now runs the Engineering team for SADA's Work Transformation (G Suite, Chrome) practice - but she didn't start there. Here with us over 6.5 years, Kelly started on the helpdesk as part of our Enterprise Support organization as her first role - taking 100% of the G Suite calls! That experience landed her in the delivery organization, and then Colgate, really put both her AND SADA on the map in a major way. She talks about the growth she's seen with customers and how projects have changed.

Relatively new to Google Cloud, Rob Harper leads Channel Sales for the organization in North Central. On this episode, we discuss what makes Google Cloud unique, why Rob moved across the country to take this role, what he's seen so far, and what he thinks the future holds. We also discuss what makes the alignment with partners so important in Google's go-to-market strategy, and what makes partners stand out.

Jen Chason heads Enterprise Sales for Google Cloud for all of west (outside of Northern California). Being relatively new to the role, she has some unique perspectives on making the transition to Google Cloud after so many years. She also covers a massive geographic territory. With that type of responsibility, how does she create the best customer experiences in how they engage with Google, and with partners? Why is Google Cloud so transformational for customers? And what does the future hold?

Gary Danoff is one of those Googlers who comes from experience being in the partner's shoes! His perspective on what attributes the best partners have is a unique perspective. Public Sector is one of six verticals Google Cloud is really focused on, from a go-to-market standpoint. Why is that? And how has Public Sector now become one of the places that's experiencing some of the most innovation in the market?

Lisa Gluckstern is the Partner Sales Manager (PSM) for Google Cloud's corporate segment in North and South Central Markets, and Bradley Fisher, is the PSM for South Central Enterprise. Learn about their roles, how they engage with both partners, as well as Google Cloud's field sales organization, to ensure that every customer has the right partner engaged. How do these co-selling motions produce the optimal customer experience, and what do they expect from partners, exactly? Tune in to find out.

How do you build a company culture that has been rated the Best Place to Work year after year? Head of People Operations, Orkideh Shahidi, has dedicated the past seven years of her career to making SADA a diverse and inclusive culture that hundreds of employees have joined. Orkideh believes while there are lots of moving parts, this all starts with living SADA's core values: Be Data Driven, Do the Right Thing, Be a Change Agent, Make Them Rave, and Be One Step Ahead.

Kelsey Hightower has been leading a movement for customer, user, developer, and ops team empathy in Google Cloud's product and engineering organizations. Tune in to hear how he's navigating these complex waters and what it's like focusing on community versus technology. Kelsey is also an extraordinary leader in the exploding Kubernetes ecosystem and shares his thoughts on how the platform is maturing, especially as a platform for building platforms, and how Anthos plays into that.

Ben Howard has been in the Google ecosystem in various capacities for 6 years, and has a 360-degree perspective few people do: first at BetterCloud as an ISV, then within a Google Cloud consultancy, and now with Google running partner sales strategies and go to market. What is the value proposition partners need to bring to customers, and to Google Cloud in Corporate, Enterprise, and Select customers? Tune in to hear what changes he's seen in the past 6 years, specifically in the Thomas Kurian era.

Fun-Gi is an independent game maker - who's first game, House Flip, has hit over 12,000,000 downloads, with 4.6 starts in a matter of just two years! Tune in to hear from both Alfred Fung, CEO and Jimmy Xu, Head of Product discuss going to market in a very crowded space - as they define a completely new category for mobile gaming. Thanks to the power and flexibility of GCP, and specifically App Engine, allows them to scale globally while focusing on game development and player experience.

Join us as Brice Challamel, Global Transformation Lead at Google Cloud, unpacks the evolution of business transformation. Why should organizations do this and what is the key success factor? He'll also uncover some of the biggest challenges organizations are facing with transformation, how to overcome them, and pitfalls bound to occur when you don't. The role of partners like SADA also play a part in the big picture of the Google Cloud strategy.

Meet Chris Lehman, SADA's head of GCP Engineering. Coming from a varied background and entering the brave new world of Google Cloud, what are the learnings? What's different about GCP versus other cloud technologies Chris has worked in? What are our customers saying, and how do they get started? Tune in to find out!

From one family-owned business to another, Tony converses with Jesse Nowlin, IT Manager of Westland Real Estate Group about strategic and cultural shifts of lifting a 40-year-old family-owned business up into the cloud and into the next generation of workplace collaboration through the use of G Suite, Voice and GCP.

Harrison Lewis is one of the most visionary CIOs in the retail industry. See how one of the most prolific retailers is using Google Cloud Platform to transform the way it serves its customers. From groceries to financial services, the mission of Northgate is to bring high-value services to the under-served in the community. Knowing their customers from a 360-degree perspective is what makes it all possible. Northgate, with a 36 person IT team, also has to be very selective about what they outsource.

A relatively recent addition to the Google Cloud team, Enterprise Head of Sales, Meg Tucker, reveals the merits of the super local market approach by gaining traction and credibility with large customers. She also discusses her role in building credibility through building community in the SoCal/Los Angeles markets. Now working alongside other powerful women at Google Cloud such as Jen Chason, Kirsten Kliphouse and Janet Kennedy, Meg is a huge advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace.

Patrick Monaghan has lived a fascinating life, and worked all over the world - from Navy Intelligence to South Korea. He joined SADA at just the right time to ensure we're the easiest company to procure Google Cloud products and services from. But it goes beyond that - building a forever company means running an exceptional Board of Directors, and mitigating risk. Tune in to hear how having in-house legal competency creates the best-in-class customer experience.