Diane Greene is CEO of Google Cloud and a director of Alphabet. Before Google, she cofounded and ran three technology companies: VMware, which she took public for a $19.1B first-day closing valuation; VXtreme, a low-bandwidth streaming video company that was bought by Microsoft; and Bebop, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup acquired by Google. She previously worked at Sybase, Tandem, and SGI as a software engineer and, before that, as a naval architect in the shipping and offshore oil industries. She also ran engineering for Windsurfer International.

In addition to her service on the board of Alphabet, Ms. Greene is a lifetime member of the MIT Corporation, sits on the supervisory board of SAP, and is a member of the UC Berkeley School of Engineering advisory committee. She served on the board of Intuit from 2006 through 2017.

In 2017 she received the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award and a University of Vermont honorary doctor of science. In 2018 she was elected to the NAE.

Ms. Greene has an MS in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MS in naval architecture from MIT, and a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont. She is married with two children and is a lifelong sailor. She was the 1976 Women’s National Dinghy Champion.