Google Cloud Appoints Chief Marketing Officer Amid AI Growth

Google Cloud has named a new Chief Marketing Officer. 

Stephanie Buscemi, formerly Chief Marketing Officer of Confluent, has been appointed to lead marketing at Google Cloud, working closely alongside Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Lorraine Twohill, Google’s Chief Marketing Officer.

She succeeds Alison Wagonfeld, who left Google Cloud after close to ten years as its Chief Marketing Officer to become NVIDIA’s first-ever CMO. 

“I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Stephanie Buscemi to the team to lead Marketing for Google Cloud!” says Lorraine. 

“It’s fitting that Stephanie brings the full stack of experience to this role – leadership through tech platform shifts, a track record scaling huge enterprise businesses, the ability to cut through industry noise and a relentless focus on driving impact and outcomes for customers.”

Marketing and technology leadership experience 

Stephanie joins Google Cloud after more than five years at Confluent, where she was the company’s Chief Marketing Officer. 

As CMO, she led and scaled the company’s global marketing, developer relations and technology strategy, among other responsibilities, to help drive the company’s wider mission to “redefine data infrastructure”. 

Between March 2022 and December 2025, she also held additional responsibilities as President and Board Member for Confluent.org. 

Before joining Confluent, Stephanie spent nearly seven years at Salesforce – first joining the company as a Senior Vice President of Marketing, Analytics Cloud, before progressing to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, which she held for two and a half years. 

Google Cloud’s AI growth

According to Stephanie, part of the reason she chose to join Google Cloud was because of the significant advancements the company has made in AI.

“Google has spent more than a decade building the answer across every layer of AI: infrastructure and TPUs, data, security and Gemini,” she says. “Enterprises don't get production-grade AI from stitching together point solutions. They get it from a stack built to work together, end to end. 

“Nearly 90% of the Fortune 100 already use Gemini Enterprise, and 80% of Google Cloud customers use its AI products today. The opportunity now is translating that power into absolute clarity for every enterprise buyer.

“That's the job I'm taking. Not more volume in an already loud category. Clarity, and the discipline to keep a customer's outcomes at the centre of everything we do.” 

Last quarter, Google Cloud grew its revenue by 82% year-over-year, while operating income grew to US$8.8bn – a surge largely driven by enterprise demand for AI infrastructure.

“The opportunity ahead for enterprise is extraordinary, and we’re only at the beginning,” says Lorraine. “I can’t wait to work closely with Stephanie and Thomas Kurian on this next chapter, seeing what’s possible when we fully unlock the promise of AI for businesses at scale. Welcome to Google, Stephanie, let’s get to work!”

Who are Google Cloud’s key partners? 

• NVIDIA: NVIDIA and Google Cloud provide accelerator-optimised solutions that support demanding workloads, including generative AI, high-performance computing, data analytics, graphics and gaming workloads.
• Accenture: Together, Accenture and Google Cloud accelerate clients’s reinvention ambitions, tapping Accenture’s industry expertise and Google Cloud’s technological innovations.
• Salesforce: This strategic partnership enables cross-platform agent reasoning and action on a shared infrastructure and data foundation, brings Salesforce workloads to Google Cloud through Hyperforce and accelerates AI adoption.
• Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank served as a key design partner for the Financial Research Agent, an AI-powered research solution that forms a core part of Google Cloud’s new Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services solution.