Mike A. — Co-Founder

Thank you for visiting my profile! As a Strategic AI Startup Lead at Google Cloud UK & Ireland, I serve as a dedicated partner to promising AI startups, building trusting relationships and integrating Google's cutting-edge AI technologies into their products. I act as a technical and strategic advisor, helping teams overcome development challenges, accelerate product roadmaps, and support their business and go-to-market plans. I also serve as an internal advocate within Google, ensuring these startups have the necessary tools and expertise to succeed. My professional achievements include being a Google President's Club Winner in 2025 and consistently exceeding annual targets. Beyond my professional success, I am a recognised leader, named a Top 10 Future Leader at the Ethnicity Awards and shortlisted for 'The Race Equality Champion' Award. I am also a public speaker at industry events like the Dublin Tech Summit and an angel investor in SMEs/Startups. In my free time, I enjoy playing squash and table tennis, as well as walking and hiking. I'm also a fan of F1 and attending festivals, along with other thrill-seeking activities like skydiving. I am an enthusiastic and eager individual who embraces challenges and difficult tasks. I am honest about my capabilities and consistently strive to exceed expectations. I embody three core traits that I believe are vital for success in life and business: "Will to Win," which means persevering through challenges, learning from my failures, and maintaining focus on results; "Quick Learner," demonstrating my ability to quickly process new information, apply it to new situations, and showing excellent listening and questioning skills; and "Deliver Results," which my the ability to rise to the occasion, overcome setbacks, and consistently exceed expectations with quality and timeliness.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI industry expert with strong leadership and business development skills.

Experience: 8 yrs 2 mos

Skills

Cloud Consulting
Business Development

Career Highlights

Google President's Club Winner in 2025 and 2026
Top 10 Future Leader at the Ethnicity Awards
Public speaker at industry events

Work Experience

Google

VC Lead - Athlete Relations (Additional Role) (4 mos)

DEI Working Group Co-Lead (20% Role) - Google Cloud UK & Ireland (2 yrs)

Google Cloud Head of EMEA Interns 20% Role (9 mos)

Strategic AI Startup Lead - Google Cloud UK & Ireland (5 yrs 9 mos)

SQI

Angel Investor (4 yrs 8 mos)

We Create Change

Co-Founder and Activist (1 yr 6 mos)

SEO London

SEO London Alumni (3 mos)

Google

Google Cloud Inside Sales Rep (FinTech) (2 mos)

Local Health Centre

Marketing Consultant (3 mos)

Horizon Property Consultants

Co-Founder (5 yrs 6 mos)

Dulwich College

CCF Staff Instructor (8 mos)

Education

Economics and Accounting at University of Leicester

3 A-Levels & 9 A-B GCSEs at Sutton Valence School

Mike A.

Co-Founder

United Kingdom8 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Google President's Club Winner in 2025 and 2026
Top 10 Future Leader at the Ethnicity Awards
Public speaker at industry events

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI industry expert with strong leadership and business development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ConsultingBusiness Development

Other Skills

Digital TransformationInnovating with DataInfrastructure and Application ModernizationLeadershipAnalytical SkillsSales & MarketingSalesTechnology SolutionsEvent ManagementCustomer EngagementLead GenerationNew Business DevelopmentMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Office

About

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Google

4 roles

VC Lead - Athlete Relations (Additional Role)

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

DEI Working Group Co-Lead (20% Role) - Google Cloud UK & Ireland

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

Google Cloud Head of EMEA Interns 20% Role

Apr 2021 – Jan 2022 · 9 mos

Strategic AI Startup Lead - Google Cloud UK & Ireland

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

Partnering with the World's most promising startups!
My professional achievements include being a Google President's Club Winner in 2025 & 2026, consistently exceeding annual targets.
Role Responsibilities:
Partner with promising AI startups: I serve as a dedicated partner to a portfolio of our most promising AI startups, building a trusting and collaborative relationship with each of them.
Integrate Google's AI technologies: My main objective is to help these startups succeed by strategically integrating Google's cutting-edge AI technologies into their products and services.
Provide technical and strategic guidance: I act as both a technical and strategic advisor, helping teams overcome development challenges and accelerate their product roadmaps.
Support business and go-to-market plans: I focus on understanding their business objectives and go-to-market strategies to provide the necessary support and resources for them to launch and scale their solutions successfully.
Serve as an internal advocate: I'm their advocate within Google, ensuring they have the tools and expertise they need to become the next big success story.

Digital TransformationInnovating with DataInfrastructure and Application ModernizationLeadershipAnalytical SkillsSales & Marketing+4

Sqi

Angel Investor

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

We create change

Co-Founder and Activist

Jun 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · United Kingdom

► Launched www.WeCreateChange.co.uk, a website that seeks to help educate, promote and increase awareness of the systemic racism facing the Black community around the world - calling for justice and equality.
► Launched our marketing strategy, which reached over 32,000 people in over 91 different countries since launch in June 2020.
► Established partnerships with Google, Amazon and Clifford Chance in migrating the website to an internal resource and becoming the official recommended website for Amazon’s Alexa response when spoken: “Hey Alexa, Black Lives Matter”.

Seo london

SEO London Alumni

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019 · 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

► As an alumnus, I take the opportunity to give back, by assisting other candidates on their career path
► Helping to coach students on their CVs and Cover Letters ensuring they are communicating the best versions of themselves

Google

Google Cloud Inside Sales Rep (FinTech)

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Dublin, Ireland

► Trained on how to pitch and sell both GCP and G Suite products to C-Level executives by UKI Territory managers.
► Created a ‘Customer Engagement Strategy’ for the FinTech team, which reached 800 customers and prospective clients, resulting in 100 engagements for our training courses & social events, 8 CEOs attending our learning expedition leading to an increase in our pipeline development.
► Engaged and pitched Google Cloud products to the C-Level of 5 top FinTechs, qualified several leads, progressed through the sales cycle and subsequently contributed $XXXk to the team’s pipeline. Furthermore, created an opportunity with a major UK bank with a pipeline value of $XXXk. Achieving 133% of target.
► Started Google Dublin’s first internal podcast alongside 5 other business interns called ‘Coffee With’. We created a website and produced 5 episodes, received 2000 page views and from 500 different users over 15 different countries.

Local health centre

Marketing Consultant

Dec 2018 – Mar 2019 · 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

► Re-designed the Centre's logo for their social media accounts and produced new images for their website
► Created and uploaded new content on their Instagram profile which subsequently increased their following by 40% and their user engagement by 50%

Horizon property consultants

Co-Founder

Mar 2018 – Sep 2023 · 5 yrs 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Dulwich college

CCF Staff Instructor

Oct 2015 – Jun 2016 · 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

► Oversaw the management and training of up to 50 junior cadets and assigned Non-Commissioned Officers
► Created a training syllabus for the cadets, intended to make lessons more interactive, engaging and practical which resulted in a 100% pass rate of the required military assessment