Google's Cloud-Computing Boss, Diane Greene, to Step Down

By Douglas MacMillan

Google said its top cloud-computing executive is departing the company and will be replaced by a former executive of business-software rival Oracle Corp.

Diane Greene will step down from her role as CEO of Google Cloud in January, she said in a blog post Friday. Thomas Kurian, a former president of product development at Oracle, will take over next year. Ms. Greene, who ran Google's cloud division for three years, will retain her seat on the board of Google parent Alphabet Inc.

Ms. Greene, a Silicon Valley veteran who co-founded corporate-software pioneer VMware Inc., joined Google in 2015 to help it take on Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in the growing market for cloud-computing software and services.

Google doesn't disclose revenue from cloud computing, but analysts at Credit Suisse Group AG expect the unit to generate $6.9 billion, or about 6% of Alphabet's total revenue this year -- up from just 3% last year, the analysts estimate.

Write to Douglas Macmillan at Douglas.Macmillan@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

November 16, 2018 14:37 ET (19:37 GMT)

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