Alison Wagonfeld is the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Google Cloud representing both Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace. In this global role she manages product marketing, demand gen, brand, creative, partner marketing, strategy & ops, events, and regional/field teams. Previously, she was an operating partner at Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm focused on enterprise cloud companies, where she worked with over 30 portfolio companies and developed the firm’s branding, marketing, and talent programs.
Prior to Emergence, Alison was Executive Director of the Harvard Business School California Research Center where she worked with faculty to build the entrepreneurship curriculum, helped develop programs for the Harvard Innovation Lab and led Harvard student “entrepreneurship immersion” trips to Silicon Valley. Before her role at HBS, Alison led Marketing and Business Development at Greenlight, a venture backed start-up, and worked at Intuit, where she co-founded the Quicken Loans business. Earlier in her career, Alison worked as a product manager at Microsoft and as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York and Hong Kong.
Alison currently sits on the public board of BILL Holdings (BILL) as well as the Advisory Board of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs and the Leadership Council of Yale Engineering.
Alison has a BA, magna cum laude, from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. The San Francisco Business Journal named Alison one of the “Most Influential Women in the Bay Area.”
