Andi Gutmans is the General Manager and Vice President for Data Cloud at Google, which includes operational databases, analytical data platforms, open lakehouse technologies, and  Business Intelligence. His core focus involves building, managing, and scaling highly innovative data services to deliver a leading AI-native data platform for businesses.
Under Andi’s leadership, Google’s Data Cloud team develops a unified, intelligent, and open data platform. A core focus is embedding generative AI directly into operational and analytical data products and technologies to supercharge the practitioner experience. By integrating powerful AI models with enterprise data to fuel customer innovation, Google Cloud provides a unified data platform, designed to manage the entire data lifecycle for diverse workloads, enabling teams to build modern, data-driven applications and agents. 
Before joining Google Cloud, Gutmans was VP Analytics at AWS, where he managed services such as Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as CEO of Zend Technologies, a company built around the open-source PHP language, of which he was a co-creator. Andi Gutmans is a highly experienced leader with over 20 years dedicated to open source contributions. He is particularly renowned as a co-creator of the open-source PHP language, which has become one of the most widely used languages for web development. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and served on the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors. Gutmans holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.