L’exécutive rejoint le géant fédéral des contrats Booz Allen Hamilton , où elle était auparavant présidente des activités de défense mondiales de l’entreprise.

Dans le nouveau rôle de C-suite, Dahut est chargé d’étendre la présence de Google Public Sector sur les marchés des administrations fédérales, étatiques et locales et de développer son portefeuille du secteur de l’éducation.

Dahut remplace Will Grannis , qui a conçu et lancé Google Public Sector en tant que PDG fondateur plus tôt cette année. Grannis reprendra son rôle de CTO de Google Cloud fin octobre, lorsque la transition aura lieu.

« Aujourd’hui, j’ai le plaisir de présenter Karen Dahut en tant que nouvelle PDG de Google Public Sector », a déclaré Thomas Kurian, PDG de Google Cloud, dans un communiqué.

“With more than 25 years of experience in technology, cybersecurity, and analytics, Karen is a highly accomplished executive who has built businesses, developed and executed large-scale growth strategies, and created differentiated solutions across both commercial and federal industries,” said Kurian.

At Booz Allen, Dahut previously led the company’s $4 billion global defense business, which represented approximately half of the firm’s annual revenue. She also served as chief innovation officer and built Booz Allen’s strategic innovation group, which develops new services in cybersecurity, data science, and digital technologies.

Dahut started her career as an officer in the U.S. Navy and served as controller for the Navy’s biomedical research institute.

Google created its standalone public sector division in June as a separate legal entity from Google Cloud operating as its own independent company with a board of advisers to help scale its services to more government agencies nationwide.

In recent years, Google has expanded its public sector presence. At the federal level, it has won large tech contracts on both the civilian and defense sides, including at the Department of Energy, U.S. Postal Service and Department of Veteran Affairs, as well as with the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Defense Innovation Unit.

La société de technologie a récemment soumissionné sur l’acquisition multi-cloud d’un milliard de dollars du Pentagone, la Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) , malgré l’abandon du prédécesseur raté de cet achat, le contrat Joint Enterprise Defence Infrastructure (JEDI) en raison de problèmes éthiques signalés. préoccupations.