Andrea Gallego - Cook
Global MD for Go-To-Market Incubation
Google Cloud
As a Google Cloud Global "Medical Director (MD)", I support teams develop and test new cloud-based products or services within a controlled environment. I help them focus on validating market fit, refining product features, and preparing a strategy to effectively launch them to customers on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Together, we develop and test (incubate) go-to-market strategies before a full-scale release to potential clients.
I love being able to do something different every day! I love being a good leader for my teams, and being around such smart, amazing, caring, and talented people.
I spend one portion of the day on calls with my client teams, brainstorming and coming up with the right answers for our clients. I spend the other part making decisions about our software strategy, hiring engineers, looking at our software security policies, etc.
I took economics and statistics in school and went right into investment banking. I joined Lehman Brothers the same year the banking crisis happened and it collapsed. I was pretty upset, so I left the banking world to go work for a very small private foundation helping women and girls. I helped grow that over 3-4 years and I was super inspired to continue to make an impact by using data, not just business/economics. I went back to school for computer science and analytics - I've really enjoyed the ride so far!
I want to continue to pay it forward and help other girls and women make it into leadership positions. I want to help fix our education system so that colleges of arts and sciences are not so split up. I really think we should all be able to study the arts AND the sciences - it makes us better thinkers and better human beings. I also want to build a vacation home with my husband and get two more dogs! :)
I'm a long-distance runner and fitness enthusiast - this is my meditation every morning. A good sweat is how I decompress and also mentally prepare for my day. I spend a lot of time with my husband and golden retriever pups. I love interior decoration and home renovation - we really enjoy it. We're working on buying and flipping other homes.
“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women." ~ Madeleine Albright