- 2025 to now
Head of Communications, Consumer Apps Marketing
Google, San Francisco
Lead executive and internal comms, messaging and speaker prep for a Google marketing org of hundreds of people. Run exec comms for a marketing VP.
- Founded AI Power Hour, a weekly hands-on AI session for the whole org. Google's central marketing training team scaled a version to thousands of marketers.
- Built Byline, a co-writing tool that helps executives find their own insights and turn them into strong social posts.
- 2018 to 2025
Head of Communications, EMEA Marketing
Google, London
Ran comms across 35+ offices. Executive narratives, speeches, social and events. Managed three direct reports from 2022 to 2024.
- 2017 to 2018
Senior Messaging and Product Launch Manager, AR and VR
Google, Mountain View
Messaging for 25+ product and feature launches. Creative for major events, with agency teams and a creative budget.
- 2015 to 2016
Brand and Executive Thought Leadership Lead, Google Cloud
Google, Mountain View
Built Cloud's first brand narrative and Google for Work's thought-leadership program. Ran the Global Speaker Bureau.
- 2011 to 2015
Senior Product Policy Specialist
Google, Mountain View
Policy for Search, Chrome and Google Play. Led the public Search Policy Principles. Ran the Unwanted Software Policy program with 30+ senior engineering leads.
- 2008 to 2011
Senior Policy Advisor
British Embassy Washington
UK technology and IP policy. Speeches and briefings for the British Ambassador. Guest posts for the Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog.
Side project
Link, a robot tutor for my kids
I built Link in six days so it would be ready before school started. It's a desk robot: a Raspberry Pi 5 inside a retro tin-toy shell I designed in code and 3D printed at home.
A 5-inch touchscreen is its animated face, a conference speakerphone is its ears and voice, and a green arcade button on its head wakes it up and puts it to sleep. The brain is Google's Gemini Live API, so the kids just talk and it answers out loud. It knows each kid's interests and learning goals, turns practice into games, and picks up where the last session left off.
I made the product calls and used AI coding agents for most of the engineering. Safety was a design rule from day one: Link holds no personal information, only listens when it's awake, and saves a transcript of every conversation for me to review. Those transcripts drive the tuning too. When the kids said it talked too much and asked too many questions, I read the logs and retuned it.
My son named it Link, after the Zelda hero.
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Education
- London School of Economics. MS, International Political Economy, with merit
- Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service. BS, Foreign Service, cum laude
- Sciences Po. Diplôme du Programme international, with honors