Drive Privacy-First Data Transformation in the Cloud

RampUp 2023 Session

Speakers

Kirsten Kliphouse

President, Americas, Google Cloud

David Eisenberg

Chief Strategy Officer, LiveRamp

Kirsten Kliphouse

President, Americas, Google Cloud

Kirsten joined Google Cloud in June 2019, leading the customer-facing and partner-facing teams that serve enterprises, mid-market customers, and small to mid-sized businesses for Google Cloud in North America.

Prior to Google, Kirsten was senior vice president and general manager of North America Commercial Sales at Red Hat, and CEO of Yardarm Technologies, an IoT startup.

Earlier in her career, she spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, where she was corporate vice president of the company’s 10,000-employee worldwide Customer Support and Professional Services organization.

David Eisenberg

Chief Strategy Officer, LiveRamp

David is the Chief Strategy Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) and Head of LiveRamp Ventures. As CSO, he is responsible for corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), business development and spearheads many of our company-wide strategic initiatives. David led the original acquisition of LiveRamp as part of Acxiom, and has helped to drive our strategy through 12 acquisitions, 5 divestitures, including the $2.3B sale of Acxiom’s marketing services division to Interpublic Group. Most recently, David launched LiveRamp Ventures to make strategic investments to support our partner ecosystem.

Prior to LiveRamp, David served as head of global corporate development for Rakuten Group, a $15 billion global consumer Internet and Ecommerce Company, where he led the company’s global expansion strategy, M&A and business development efforts in the U.S., Europe and China, including the successful U.S. launch of Rakuten.com, Rakuten Marketing and Rakuten Loyalty including the acquisitions of LinkShare, CauseLoyalty, Traffic Strategies, and FreeCause. David serves on the Board of Directors at Catalina Marketing (2021) and formerly at Ensono (acquired by KKR for $1.9B in 2022).