Elissa Murphy

Elissa Murphy was elected to the board of directors in September 2021.

Ms. Murphy has served as a Vice President of Engineering at Google, Inc. since 2016. Prior to Google, she was the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Cloud Platforms at GoDaddy from 2013 to 2016.

Ms. Murphy previously served as Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo! from late 2010 to 2013, where she oversaw the world’s largest private Hadoop cluster, a technology essential to massive-scale computing that is the basis of big data today. Prior to her time at Yahoo!, Ms. Murphy spent 13 years at Microsoft in various engineering positions including part of the original team responsible for Microsoft’s shift to the Cloud, which led to the creation of Azure, and as a member of the High Performance Computing team.

Ms. Murphy began her technology career designing and building many of the best-selling computer security and system utilities with 5th Generation Systems, Quarterdeck and the Norton Group, a division at Symantec responsible for Norton Antivirus and other Norton products. Ms. Murphy brings expertise in global-scale platforms, big data and predictive analytics to our Board.

Ms. Murphy currently has over 30 patents issued with several more pending in the areas of distributed systems, cloud, machine learning and security.