North American Finance Executive Summit - Spring Edition

Gary Ennis is the CFO/Finance Director for Google Cloud Americas, overseeing the North America and Latin America Go-to-Market teams. He is responsible for spearheading revenue growth and P&L performance, driving optimal deals for both Google and its customers, and ensuring the development of a sustainable business model for the long term.

Gary’s team is responsible for a wide range of financial activities, including business insights, forecasting, long-range planning, P&L optimization, cost management, growth strategies, compliance, deal-making, pipeline management, and customer investments.

Gary is passionate about leveraging Google’s cutting-edge technology and utilizes AI daily to enhance productivity. He is a strong advocate for the importance of storytelling in finance, emphasizing its role in driving action and facilitating understanding.

With several years of experience in scaling cloud businesses, Gary has played a key role in Google Cloud’s growth, moving from an annual run rate of $23 billion to $45 billion, and its transition from a loss-making entity to one with high-teens operating margins. During his tenure at Microsoft, he supported the Enterprise team in shifting from legacy on-premise solutions to establishing Office 365 and Azure as global powerhouses.

In his previous role at Microsoft, Gary led the Revenue and Gross Margin Team, overseeing current analytics, forward-looking forecasting and planning, and collaborating with investor relations to develop a comprehensive earnings narrative, including guidance for Wall Street. The team analyzed the company’s financial results, P&L, business insights, strategic planning, Bookings & RPO, forecasting, external guidance to Wall Street, gross margin trends, resource allocation, board of directors’ materials, partnership with Investor relations, quarterly earnings, and external KPIs.

Earlier in his career at Microsoft, Gary led the Enterprise sales & marketing finance team, driving financial strategy for sales & marketing, and served as the controller of the Ireland sales subsidiary. Prior to Microsoft, he was the CFO of a Dublin-based tech startup called Buytel and began his career with KPMG. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Trinity College Dublin and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA).

Ms. Chandrashekar joined News Corp as Chief Financial Officer in January 2025. She previously served as a Director of the Board of Diageo PLC and Chief Financial Officer of Diageo between July 2021 and September 2024, where she led the company through a period of accelerated growth and spearheaded the company’s global digital transformation program.

Prior to Diageo, she held numerous senior positions at blue chip consumer facing companies, Procter & Gamble and Mondelēz.

Ms. Chandrashekar is a graduate of Mount Carmel College and earned her Masters of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.