Chirag Sharma Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Managing deep, complex customer relationships with Google's largest advertising clients in the financial services space (lead aggregators, insurance companies, credit card companies, crypto, etc.). Leading large scale agreements ($XXXM) and joint business plans from inception to activation & measurement. Internally, working closely with Ads product leaders in engineering and influencing cross-functional stakeholders and teams towards optimal solutions for our clients.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Impacted a $XB+ vertical at Google by leading a specialized business unit in charge of creating frictionless user experiences on mobile devices.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Was responsible for investing Google’s resources into new high growth potential advertisers.Built partnerships with major cryptocurrency exchange in this role to develop and execute their marketing plans on Google. Guided the crypto industry working with Google at the time during the ICO / Bitcoin boom and then again after Google developed new policy to guide the cryptocurrency space.Was focused exclusively on building partnerships with and investing strategic resources into advertisers who were not yet leveraging Google Ads and also had the potential to be Google’s next largest clients.Less than 15% of new partnerships that were rigorously evaluated per quarter based on company business model / business metrics / market potential / among other opportunity metrics were selected for strategic support. In addition to this, led thought leadership events for our C-level partners who were seeking to understand how Google approaches digital marketing.

London, England, Gb

(Acquired for $500MM in 2014 by Telstra )Worked with with media companies to help them create their own over-the-top (OTT) online video streaming service using Ooyala software (akin to a Netflix style offering).During my time, Ooyala grew from 150 employees to 600, the company was bought by Telstra for $500MM, and then Ooyala went on to purchase two other companies.

(Acquired by Kemwell Biopharma)Built relationships with VP, C-level, and Presidents of biotech and pharma companies of all sizes that could leverage Cirrus' pharmaceutical development services. I managed all aspects of the relationship between the client and Cirrus' technical staff & frequently represented Cirrus at conferences.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Management Economics