Author: Daisuke Wakabayashi / Source: New York Times
Diane Greene, a co-founder and former chief executive of VMware, was hired in 2015 to expand Google’s cloud computing business. Damien Maloney for The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — Diane Greene, whose pursuit of Pentagon contracts for artificial intelligence technology sparked a worker uprising at Google, is stepping down as chief executive of the company’s cloud computing business.
Ms. Greene said she would stay on as chief executive until January. She will be replaced by Thomas Kurian, who oversaw product development at Oracle until his resignation in October. Ms. Greene will remain a board director at Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
The change in leadership caps a turbulent three years for Ms. Greene, who was brought on to expand Google’s cloud computing business. Google Cloud has struggled to make major inroads in persuading corporate customers to use its computing infrastructure over alternatives like Amazon’s A.W.S. and Microsoft’s Azure.
In a blog post published by the company, Ms. Greene said she had initially told friends and family that she was planning to run Google Cloud for only two years but stayed for three.
Ms. Greene, a widely respected technologist and entrepreneur, said that after leaving Google Cloud, she planned to help female founders of companies by investing in and mentoring them.
Ms. Greene joined Google in 2015 when it acquired Bebop, a start-up she had founded, for $380 million.
She is best known as a co-founder…
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