Ryan Vauk

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ABOUT RYAN VAUK

Ryan Vauk is a seasoned executive with a passion for driving large scale organizational transformation. He has over two decades of go-to-market experience across product, sales, marketing, and operations. Having worked across functions and consumer-facing industries, he’s developed an interdisciplinary mindset and breadth of pragmatic best practices. In addition to his business acumen, his lived experiences in the LGBT community anchor his empathetic and inclusive leadership style. He helps teams and organizations cultivate a culture of inclusion and belonging. As a board member, Ryan brings exceptional advisory capabilities honed from extensive experience in client service at McKinsey and supporting C-level leaders at Google in both an operational and strategic capacity. His transferable expertise includes helping organizations through Digital and AI transformations; improving go-to-market capabilities; and enabling businesses at any stage to grow and scale. Currently, Ryan is the Global Vice President of Strategy and Operations for Google’s Consumer Tech products, including Search, Ads, Assistant, Bard/Gemini, Maps, Payments, and Shopping, generating $250B+ revenue. As the head of operations for this portfolio, he leads multiple transformations across the organization that comprises engineering, product management, design, and several other technical functions that build Google products for billions of users around the world. This work includes the shift to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), increased resource and cost discipline, and deepening user-centric product strategy and development, supported by systematic cultural and operating change to drive growth, velocity, and innovation. He previously led GTM Operations for Google’s Americas Region, enabling salespeople to help nearly 20k large customers use Google’s Ads and Measurement products across Search, YouTube, and network media to meet their marketing objectives. During his decade at Google, he also helped grow the early “0 to 1” monetization efforts of YouTube. Before Google, Ryan was an Associate Partner at McKinsey. In his early career, he was a Product Manager at 3M for the Scotch Tape portfolio, and had various roles in sales and marketing. Ryan holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University, and a B.B.A. from Baylor University.