Orna Berry

In her role, Dr. Berry creates and maintains partnerships between Google's R&D team and Google Cloud's strategic partners and clients. Additionally, she designs Google Cloud's strategy and adapts its innovation and growth engines.

Dr. Berry was the first and only woman so far to serve as the chief scientist and as director of the Industrial R&D division at the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor. Berry is a doctor of computer science, and during her time in the private sector, she served as an independent partner at Gemini Israel Ventures and as Vice President and CEO at EMC’s excellence center, where she led the establishment of the company's R&D center in Beer Sheva. Later, her managerial responsibilities in the company were expanded with her appointment as Vice President for Innovation and growth.

In the past three years, Dr. Berry led national committees, which served as a foundation for a national R&D program in science, quantum tech, AI, and data in academia, together with the Israel Innovation Authority, defense apparatus, and the Ministry of Science in collaboration with the Budget Division of the Ministry of Finance (within the framework of the National Infrastructure for Research, founded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences).