Radhika Malpani

Radhika is a senior executive with over 30 years experience in the technology sector, working at leading organizations like Google, Hewlett Packard and Siemens.

At Google, Radhika was a Senior Eng. Director and was responsible, over a period of ~20 years, for initiating and scaling up several critical products. Starting with leading Google Ads in 2000, Radhika founded Google Images, growing it to over 1B queries/day. In addition to starting Google Local Search, she also led Google Travel Search to help users better plan their leisure trips.

Radhika has always been interested in the application of technology for social impact, and left Google in mid 2019 to focus full-time on helping mission-oriented startups scale. She uses her extensive experience with building and scaling successful products and organizations, to help founders think through important strategic issues. Radhika is currently a board member of Educate!, Simprints, Island Conservation, and The Nature Conservancy (California Leadership Council), as well as advises several startup founders. She is also a technical advisor to CIFF (Children’s Investment Fund Foundation), and a mentor with the Unreasonable Group.

Radhika brings those same entrepreneurial approaches to educating the next generation of leaders. She co-teaches entrepreneurship focussed on climate change both at Stanford, and at UC Santa Cruz where she is an Associate Adjunct Professor.

Radhika is an avid traveler, having been to all 7 continents, where she is happiest if she can snorkel. Good food, being outdoors, spending time with friends and family – these are a few of her favorite things.