- 1. Career
Biography
Philipp Schindler is the Chief Business Officer at Google. He has been called “the (smiling) public face” of Google’s massive global advertising business. He also has a say in turning Google’s “moonshots,” such as artificial intelligence or virtual reality, into businesses.
Career
A native of Dusseldorf, Germany, he joined Google in 2005, and in 2015 hewas promoted to head of all global and regional strategy, sales and operations for Google and YouTube, and the partnership teams for Android and Chrome — more than 13,000 employees worldwide. Before he moved to Mountain View HQ, Schindler ran the Google business in Northern and Central Europe, based in London. Before Google, he was a senior vice president at AOL Germany, running the company’s marketing and sales activities; he also served as head of marketing at CompuServe in Germany.