Google Cloud’s top U.S. sales executive departs
Alphabet Inc’s Google appointed Adaire Fox-Martin who was the head of its global cloud industries to a top sales position as part of an operating model shakeup, a representative stated on Thursday.
Kirsten Kliphouse, the lead of Google Cloud in the United States, has left the firm, according to a spokesperson.
Fox-Martin’s appointment aims at “unifying global go-to-market organization,” the company said and the role will focus on all global sales as well as service and support.
Source: finance.yahoo.com
Kliphouse’s resignation had already been reported previously by The Information.
The upheaval comes as the cloud services and software industry’s growth has slowed down as clients seek to cut costs and optimize their spending on cloud services.
Over the last decade, software on the cloud has flown off servers, with Indian companies such as Zoho, Browserstack, Freshworks, and many others, as well as pandemic-born high-fliers such as Rocketlane, Spendflo, and Everstage, posting high growth numbers.
Nonetheless, the expected slowdown may be the first-ever test for most Indian SaaS inventors in 2023 who are accustomed to controlling their organizations through 30-40 percent topline growth.
“There is going to be some impact on business growth. For example, already, the marketing and sales spends are lower; we see companies like Google and Facebook adjusting to that [layoffs in Big Tech]. Retail buying is going to be slower, and we see Amazon making changes,” said Manav Garg, a SaaS company CEO who founded SaaSBOOMi, a community of over 800 cloud software companies.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
The firm is also under stress due to unsatisfactory ad sales, which have resulted from advertising companies cutting back on expenses in the name of an economic downturn.
Alphabet’s health science division known as Verily Life Sciences, publicly stated the layoff of above 200 employees, or approximately 15 percent of its workforce earlier on Wednesday, making this the first time in about six years that Alphabet or an affiliate has declared job cuts.
Since the beginning of the covid-19 global epidemic, the cloud computing tech sector has seen tremendous growth as individuals and companies embraced digital.
However, the industry which includes infrastructure, platforms, as well as software companies providing it as a service over the internet, has displayed signs of slowing in the last two quarters. This is causing concern, particularly in India.
Its slowdown means that businesses across all industries are cutting funding and searching for ways to save in the face of near-record rising prices, increasing interest rates, as well as economic downturn fears. Those reductions are attacking Big Tech hard.
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