Joris is the Managing Director of Google Cloud – BeNeLux. He is responsible for helping customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg complete the transformation of their business in the cloud. He builds a data-driven culture to ensure customers have the data they need to leverage generative AI to make core processes more efficient, increase productivity and better serve their customers.
Joris brings together all of Google Cloud’s Go to Market teams in the BeNeLux, including sales, customer engineering, customer success, consulting and the partner ecosystem.
Joris has a broad experience in leadership in the technology industry. Joris brings a growth mindset and over twenty years of experience leading sales, go-to-market operations and developing new markets to drive customer success and deliver exceptional value and growth.
Before joining Google Cloud, he was Vice President EMEA at MessageBird. For a decade Joris has been an integral part of Salesforce becoming the number one CRM player, during which he was overseeing pan-european leadership roles. He also held various leadership roles ast Oracle. His experience spans across Europe, Middle East and Africa and customer-facing teams serving customers across industries and sizes. Joris is a strong advocate for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Joris holds a Msc of Economics & Information Technology from Tilburg University. He holds the Dutch nationality and lives in Amsterdam.
Joris’s appointment follows a number of recent new hires and echoes the company’s plans to bolster its EMEA sales teams to target enterprise customers across a number of key verticals.
