Nomination: Nicolas Dussart, GEM PGE 2004, becomes Head of Strategic Partnerships at Google in Zurich

Nicolas Dussart has been working at Google since 2012!

Nicolas started his career as an apprentice at France Telecom/Orange, and continued his career in Business Development, Advertising and Digital at Microsoft and then Criteo, an ad-trading start-up that was quickly listed on Nasdaq.

He then joined Google in 2012 as Industry Manager Retail. In 2013, he became Audience Solution Manager, before moving to Singapore where Google entrusted him with the position of Regional Product Lead and then Product Strategy and Sales Operations Lead, APAC in 2014.

A fast-moving career, with a return to Europe in 2018. He moved to Zurich and took on responsibilities in the team in charge of strategic partnerships.

 In May 2021, he was appointed Head of Strategic Partnerships. His main mission will be to build an open digital ecosystem for the travel industry (google.com/travel). He leads a team of ten account managers and coordinates about fifty engineers to launch solutions on Google Assistant, Google flights, Google Hotel search.