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 built 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. She serves on various boards and is a Venture Partner at CLAI Ventures, an early stage fund investing at the intersection of Climate and AI. She co-teaches entrepreneurship focussed on climate change both at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, where she is an Adjunct Prodessor, and at UC Santa Cruz. A Fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Career Institute, class of ‘21, she also works closely with the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford where she has been directing her energy at marine carbon dioxide removal.