Laurence LAFONT

Laurence is the Vice President, Strategic Industries EMEA for Google Cloud. 

Prior to Google, she spent over 8 years at Microsoft and most recently she was Chief Operating Officer for Microsoft in France. In addition, over her 25+ years of experience, Laurence has held various international leadership positions across sales and Industry strategy at Nokia, Oracle and Orange, where she successfully transformed and grew businesses.

Until last year, Laurence was also the President of Silver Valley, an innovation accelerator to develop solutions for aging-population and sits on the board of CentraleSupélec, French engineering University. She holds a Master in engineering from CentraleSupélec.