About
Donna Schut leads Technical Solutions Management for Generative AI and Large Scale ML at Google Cloud, defining the portfolio strategy and managing a talented team of experts in the field. Prior to this, she led the Solutions Management team for Applied Analytics & AI, as well as conceived and authored industry-defining papers such as the AI Adoption Framework and Practitioner's Guide to MLOps.
She is a customer-focused solutions leader, skilled at forming business partnerships and engaging cross-functional teams to deliver results. Donna has advised internal Alphabet teams and hundreds of Enterprise customers on their AI strategy and successful technical implementations. Moreover, she brought advanced Google X technologies to market and envisioned forward-looking cloud AI solutions.
Donna is passionate about the intersection of people and technology, particularly AI. Donna managed innovative solutions such as Alphafold on Google Cloud (in partnership with DeepMind), enabling healthcare organizations to develop drugs that combat disease more quickly, and flood modeling, enabling analysts to better understand environmental risk.
BACKGROUND
// Chess
Growing up, Donna played chess at an international level. She was the first girl (in a pool with only boys) ever to win the Dutch Youth Chess Champions, shaping her belief that gender, age and background, doesn’t define who you are. Chess taught her to challenge the status quo, think strategically, and preserve in difficult situations.
// People
Donna lived, studied and worked in many countries across Asia, Europe and North America, developing a curious and open mindset. This enabled her to appreciate diversity, recognize individual strengths, and help bring out the best in people, making her an empathetic leader.
// Academics
Having an academic background in business and data science, she mastered both the business and technical aspects of machine learning. Donna wrote her thesis on Latent Dirichlet Allocation and did a research project using Word2Vec, which was published in Nature Humanities & Social Science Communications. She continues to love to learn and share knowledge through writing.