Katheline Jean-Pierre

Independent Board Director

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Katheline has spent a decade driving revenue growth and innovation at Google in California for mid-market companies.

Global Senior Technology and Marketing Executive and Board Member who guides companies with proven strategies to drive sustainable growth and scale businesses across verticals in B2B and B2C for organizations from startup through Fortune 500 including Alphabet/Google and Linkedin (owned by Microsoft).

She has been uniquely positioned to sell Google's AI-powered advertising solutions to mid-market customers, performance agencies, PE firms and Venture capital investors. This has led her to win over 15 sales and growth awards related to her functions - of which the coveted Google Outstanding manager award, awarded to only 1% of Google employees worldwide.

About Katheline Jean-Pierre

20-YEAR CAREER DRIVING GROWTH IN TECH

As a global senior Advertising Sales & Marketing executive, Advisor and board member, Katheline Jean-Pierre guides companies with proven strategies to drive sustainable growth and scale businesses across verticals in B2B and B2C for organizations from startup through Fortune 500 including Alphabet/Google and Linkedin (owned by Microsoft). Her vast experience leading billion-dollar portfolios, launching products in global markets and guiding commercialization using new business models elevates companies looking to scale, enter new markets or leverage innovation for growth. Katheline brings to boards the insights needed to succeed in an ever-changing landscape by providing solid governance and expertise in emerging technologies, sales, blockchain, retail, marketing and product management.

INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBER

Business Strategy: Oversaw multiple $1 billion+ revenue portfolios for Google. Advised 400+ companies on strategic growth to achieve business milestones, get acquired or become public, as well as guided large companies on strategies to increase consumer brand awareness.
Scale for Growth: Scaled a $4.5 billion retail business at Google across regions for a team of 300+ sellers, increasing shopping adoption by 371% year-over-year.
Emerging Technologies: During her decade at Google, launched multiple cutting-edge products and technologies leveraging AI and machine learning. Advising on business model generation and validation, critical partnerships and branding.
e-Commerce & Retail Strategy: Launched Flickr and scaled it across 26+ countries. Experience as a product manager or advising retailers globally on e-commerce innovation, including evolution of the “multi-channel” customer.
Employee Engagement Governance: Served on the Executive Committees of Alphabet’s Employee Engagement Caucus and Senior Caucus from 2020-22. Created and launched The Women Coffee Club, a leadership development program for women and part of Google’s global Employee engagement initiatives.
Startup Advisory & Investment: Has advised multiple startups on growth, scaling, partnerships, marketing, retail strategy and fundraising including companies in the fintech, mental health and retail industries.

Work Experience

March 2025 - Present

July 2024 - February 2025

January 2012 - March 2022

2008 - 2012

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Driving Impact Media Ventures,

Fractional role driving growth from the ground up at Driving Impact Ventures, a Media company.

Managing Director, Financial Services & Venture - Linkedin

Guides sales team for three LinkedIn Marketing Solutions areas – Financial Services (including banking, fintech, investment management, insurance, and payments), Venture (including real estate firms, publishers, telco, and electric vehicle manufacturers), and Canada (all verticals).

Advises clients on choosing LinkedIn tools and programs to best enable them to reach company objectives.

Led team to close the highest number of new deals globally – 100+ customer agreements generating $114M revenue – in first 6 months.
Grew revenue attainment from 87% to 103% through new marketing and outreach strategy.

Head of Sales - Google / Alphabet

Spearheaded the sales process and go-to-market strategy from ideation to negotiation, advising customers and ad agencies on growth, scaling and effective usage of Google products across platforms in a dynamic and unprecedented consumer landscape. Led a distributed team of 300 sellers in the Americas and steered launch of Los Angeles sales office.

Oversaw multiple $1B+ revenue portfolios during tenure, advising 400+ companies and working with Chief Revenue Officers, CMOs and CFOs to leverage Google products to help reach growth goals.
Provided strategy to achieve 70% shopping depth growth, leading to 60% YoY revenue increase from 2020-22, through two strategic marketing objectives based on customer archetypes. Led to growth of Google’s full inventory, a 2.5x increase in agency ad spend.
Developed new commercialization strategy for $4.5B retail activation providing 32% YoY revenue growth and increased shopping product adoption from 0% to 85% in 2 years.

Senior Manager, B2B - Digital Transformation Practice - Deloitte Canada

Developed and led firm’s new 150-service digital practice, supporting SEM, SEO, display/programmatic, paid social, engagement, referrals, offline/live events, print/OOH and CRM marketing. Oversaw 25 consultants and 5 managers.

Defined roadmap to digitize the firm and create new digital lines of services that generated 10x ROI. Created go-to-market plan to launch and promote new services.
Guided 800x ROI within the technology, media and financial services practices by creating digital transformation playbooks and leading implementation of critical plays.
Strategy and roadmap became model for launching digital practices for Deloitte offices around the world.

2006 - 2008

Senior Product Manager - Flickr & Yahoo

Launched and localized 15+ new products in the US, Canada and France. Part of the Yahoo global product management team delivering feature upgrades to high-visibility Yahoo products and properties on communications and communities platforms.

- Scaled the Flickr e-commerce platform globally and delivered 490% growth in 18 months post-launch with product upgrades and key vertical partnerships (Nikon, Contact Festival, Moma).
- Guided strategy to elevate the brand from #3 to #2 in Canadian market share.
- Generated $26M in revenue by activating new international strategy and upgraded product features, including the launch of Flickr Places, United Nations Photo and 24 Hours of Flickr..

Education, Professional Development & Certification

Master of Science, e-Commerce, HEC Hautes Études Commerciales, Montréal, Canada
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Journalism Certificate, University of Montreal, Canada

Black Corporate Board Readiness, University of Santa Clara ( 2023)
Black Women on Boards (2022-2024)
Climate Leadership Certification Program, Diligent Institute (2022-Present)
Leading with Finance, Harvard Business School (2019)
Sales, Distribution & Marketing Operations, The Wharton School of Business