Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Google Cloud
Will Grannis is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Google Cloud, where he founded and leads the global Office of the CTO (OCTO). He partners with the world’s largest enterprises and public institutions to translate frontier research in generative and agentic AI, distributed infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital sovereignty into production-scale transformations.
As Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Google Cloud, Will Grannis leads a global organization of senior technology executives, distinguished engineers, and field researchers who work side-by-side with Google’s largest enterprise and public-sector customers to architect generational technology shifts.
Will joined Google in March 2015 as the first product success lead for Google for Work (now Google Cloud) and founded Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO (OCTO). Under his leadership, OCTO bridges foundational Google research and engineering with real-world enterprise adoption across generative and agentic AI, multi-cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, and sustainability.
In 2022, Will founded and served as the initial Chief Executive Officer of Google Public Sector, a specialized Google subsidiary dedicated to helping U.S. government agencies, defense organizations, and educational institutions accelerate mission-critical cloud and AI transformations, leading the division until a permanent executive team was established.
Prior to joining Google, Will spent two decades as an entrepreneur, enterprise technology executive, software developer, and investor across commerce, telecommunications, transportation, and the public sector. He is a U.S. Army veteran, holds a B.S. in Operations Research from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves as an executive advisor to CapitalG.
Leads Google Cloud’s global CTO organization and technical strategy across generative AI, autonomous enterprise agents, sovereign cloud, and planetary-scale infrastructure.
Established Google’s public-sector subsidiary in 2022 to bring commercial cloud innovation, zero-trust security, and AI capabilities to government and educational missions.
Built Google Cloud’s collaborative engineering think-tank and field CTO practice from the ground up, uniting senior technologists to co-innovate with global enterprises.
Two decades as a founder, CEO, CTO, and board director scaling platforms across telecommunications, commerce, and transportation, following service as a U.S. Army officer.
In probability theory and computer science, a random walk describes a trajectory formed by sequential, exploratory steps across a high-dimensional state space. Breakthrough technological progress—and the reasoning loop of modern agentic AI systems—rarely follows a rigid, linear roadmap. Cultivating category-defining innovation requires structured experimentation, rapid telemetry, high tolerance for fast failure, and continuous adaptation.