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name: Alberto Savoia
about: As Google’s first Engineering Director, Alberto Savoia led the team that launched thephenomenally successful Google AdWords. He then shifted his focus to help Google maintain itsexponential going through aggressive company-wide innovation. In his unique role as Google’sInnovation Agitator, Alberto led a team that developed a powerful set of tools and practices tohelp Google continue to innovate with the creativity, agility, and courage of startups.Word of the impressive impact and results of Alberto’s approach to innovation quickly spreadbeyond Google. Today, he teaches and practices Apex Innovation worldwide, lectures at StanfordUniversity, and coaches Fortune 500 companies. From the first “Innovate Like A Startup. Go ToMarket Like A Grown As Google’s first Engineering Director, Alberto Savoia led the team that launched thephenomenally successful Google AdWords. He then shifted his focus to help Google maintain itsexponential going through aggressive company-wide innovation. In his unique role as Google’sInnovation Agitator, Alberto led a team that developed a powerful set of tools and practices tohelp Google continue to innovate with the creativity, agility, and courage of startups.Word of the impressive impact and results of Alberto’s approach to innovation quickly spreadbeyond Google. Today, he teaches and practices Apex Innovation worldwide, lectures at StanfordUniversity, and coaches Fortune 500 companies. From the first “Innovate Like A Startup. Go ToMarket Like A Grownup” Stanford workshop in 2011, to today’s “How To Become an Innovators”executive seminars at Google, Alberto’s insights and techniques have had a deep and lasting impact on theway many world-leading companies view and approach innovation.Alberto’s work as an innovator has won him significant recognition and awards, including the2005 Wall Street Journal Technical Innovator Award, and he’s the author of “The Right It—Whymost new ideas fail and how to make sure yours succeed”, published by HarperCollins in 2019. ...more