05/25/2023
Shalini is General Manager and Vice President of Google TV, where she conceived, implemented and executed the company’s TV strategy and is also leading emerging platform technologies at Google.
Earlier, Shalini was the senior director for technology solutions at YouTube, where she led the distribution strategy for media creators - growing this cohort to have a billion monthly active users up 10X during her tenure. Shalini was technical director at Pixar, launching the blockbuster films: Toy Story and A Bugs Life, and worked with clients including Levi’s, Chips Ahoy and Listerine on award winning commercials.
Shalini is an industry thought leader and a frequent speaker on digital transformation. She was the keynote speaker at Google’s annual hardware event, IBC 2019 and at CES 2021. She was featured on NextTVs executive watchlist, Forbes, Vogue and Economic Times and writes frequently on leadership. Devoted to education, she is a board member of Pratham, an educational non-profit.
Shalini holds a BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where she holds a Distinguished Alumni award, and a MS in Computer Science from Penn State from where she holds an Outstanding Engineering Alumni award.
