Javier Soltero

Javier Soltero is the Vice President and General Manager of Google Workspace, overseeing Google’s communication and collaboration products. Having joined in October 2019, his main responsibilities are to grow customer subscriptions and drive product innovations, while enabling deeper cross-product integrations that allow billions of users to more seamlessly create, communicate and collaborate together. Soltero has held a number of product executive roles at Microsoft, including for products such as Office, Outlook, and the Intelligent Virtual Assistant, Cortana. He joined Microsoft in 2014 as part of the acquisition of Acompli, a mobile email startup he co-founded and led as CEO, which was then launched by Microsoft as Outlook Mobile. Prior to starting Acompli, Soltero held senior leadership positions at VMware where he joined after the acquisition of his first company Hyperic. Before Hyperic, he held chief architect and senior engineering positions at a number of enterprise software and consumer internet companies including Netscape, where he worked on early internet messaging, application server and e-commerce technologies. Soltero attended Carnegie Mellon University. He is from Puerto Rico and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to starting Acompli, Javier was at VMware where he was CTO of SaaS & Application Services. He was responsible for driving advanced development and strategy for application level cloud services, bringing more than 15 years of experience in designing and developing infrastructure management technologies. Javier joined VMware after the acquisition of SpringSource in 2009. Three months prior, SpringSource had acquired Soltero’s Hyperic, the leader in large scale web infrastructure management software, where he was the co-founder and CEO. Prior to starting Hyperic, Javier held chief architect and senior engineering positions at a number of enterprise software and consumer internet companies including Netscape, where he was responsible for early internet messaging, application servers and e-commerce technologies. Throughout his career, Javier has been actively involved in various open source communities as both user and contributor to projects like JBoss and Apache Tomcat. He is also an active advisor to a number of open source and SaaS startups. Javier is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico and received his bachelor of science degree in information systems and industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.