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Feb 21 Thomas Kurian says Google to compete aggressively for cloud computing business

San Francisco. February 2019. Google will invest aggressively to expand its cloud computing business said Thomas Kurian, the executive running the business. "We are hiring some of the best talent from around the industry to grow our sales organization…," said Kurian, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, according to CNBC.

Kurian said Google cloud customers include BNP Paribas, the city of Los Angeles, Home Depot, KeyBank and Telegraph Media Group. Google faces stiff competition from established cloud services vendors Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.

Kurian left Oracle in 2018 to join Google. At Oracle he was the president of product development. At Oracle Kurian was in charge of a 35,000-person team focused on software development across 32 countries.

Kurian reports to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

In 2017, Thomas Kurian earned $36 million as president of product development at Oracle Corp. It’s a software company with an enterprise value of $207 billion. Thomas was also paid $35 million in each of the previous two years. He joined Oracle in 1996. From 2000 to 2017, he was awarded 52.4 million shares and options in the company, much of which he sold. In 2017, he owned 11.5 million of Oracle stock and options, with a gross value of $600 million.

Thomas is the twin brother of George Kurian, the CEO of NetApp, a $12 billion software company. George joined NetApp in 2011 as a senior vice president, from Cisco where he was a vice president. In 2017, George’s compensation from NetApp totaled $9 million and he owned 308,000 shares and options with a gross value of $19 million.

Both brothers got a BA in electrical engineering from Princeton University and MBAs from Stanford, according to the book Passage from India to America.. They graduated from St. Joseph’s Boys High School in Bangalore, which was founded by Jesuit priests in 1858. Thomas left IIT Madras to study at Princeton. He is on the advisory council at Princeton and Stanford universities and was chair of the Silicon Valley chapter of the American Heart Association.

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