By Paresh Dave
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Former Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL) product chief Thomas Kurian will replace Diane Greene as head of the cloud division at Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc’s Google in the coming weeks, Greene announced in a blog post on Friday, after a tumultuous year for the business.
Greene said she had joined Google three years ago with plans to leave after two years and will move into investing and philanthropy in January. She will remain on Alphabet’s board.
Kurian, who spent 22 years at Oracle and had been a close confidante of its founder Larry Ellison, resigned in September after struggling to expand its cloud business.
Greene has served as chief executive of Google Cloud; Kurian will be senior vice president for Google Cloud, a company spokesman said.
Google announced in February that the cloud division, which sells computing services, online data storage and productivity software such as email and spreadsheet tools, was generating more than $1 billion in quarterly revenue.
It faced a setback months later when thousands of Google employees revolted against Greene’s unit supplying the U.S. military with artificial intelligence tools to aid in analyzing drone imagery. Greene responded by announcing the deal would not be renewed.
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