{ "data": null, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-kurian/", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-kurian/index.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-kurian/index.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/thomas-kurian/index.min.md" }, "markdown": "CEO, Google Cloud.\n\nThomas Kurian has led Google Cloud as chief executive since 2019, after joining Google's cloud organisation in November 2018. Before that he spent more than twenty years at Oracle, rising to president of product development, in charge of Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware and its business applications.\n\n## What Thomas builds\n\n- [Google Cloud Document AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-document-ai.md), graded BB, 73.9/100, in Document parsing \u0026 extraction. Google Cloud's service for OCR, layout parsing, chunking, form and table extraction, classification and splitting of documents. Work runs through processors created per project and location. Access is a REST and gRPC API with client libraries in eight languages. CEO, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Google Cloud Translation](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-translation.md), graded B, 68.1/100, in Translation. Google's API for translating text and documents. CEO, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Google Cloud Model Armor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-model-armor.md), graded BB, 77.9/100, in Guardrails \u0026 safety filters. Google Cloud's prompt and response screening service. CEO, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Google Cloud Secret Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-secret-manager.md), graded BB, 77.4/100, in Secrets \u0026 credential vaults. Google Cloud's managed service for storing and accessing application secrets. CEO, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Google Cloud Speech-to-Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 70.3/100, in Speech-to-text. Google Cloud's transcription API. CEO, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-28.\n- [Vertex AI Gemini tuning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vertex-ai-tuning.md), graded B, 64.2/100, in Fine-tuning. Supervised, preference and reinforcement tuning of Gemini, plus supervised tuning of Gemma, Llama and Qwen, on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (the platform formerly called Vertex AI). CEO, Google Cloud, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Brad Meador](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brad-meador/), Group Product Manager; Data Protection Lead, GCP\n- [Demis Hassabis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/demis-hassabis/), Co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind\n- [Haris Ioannou](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/haris-ioannou/), AI Product Lead, Gemini Audio, Google Cloud\n- [Larry Page](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/larry-page/), Co-founder, Google, left executive roles in December 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board\n- [Rohit Kumbhalwar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rohit-kumbhalwar/), Engineering Manager, GCP Secret Manager\n- [Sarah Weldon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sarah-weldon/), Lead Product Manager, Translation AI\n- [Sergey Brin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sergey-brin/), Co-founder, Google, left executive roles in 2019 and sits on Alphabet's board\n- [Sundar Pichai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sundar-pichai/), CEO, Google and Alphabet\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Thomas Kurian?\n\nThomas Kurian has led Google Cloud as chief executive since 2019, after joining Google's cloud organisation in November 2018. Before that he spent more than twenty years at Oracle, rising to president of product development, in charge of Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware and its business applications.\n\n### What does Google Cloud make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Google Cloud Document AI, Google Cloud Translation, Google Cloud Model Armor, Google Cloud Secret Manager, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text and Vertex AI Gemini tuning from Google Cloud. Google Cloud's service for OCR, layout parsing, chunking, form and table extraction, classification and splitting of documents. Work runs through processors created per project and location. Access is a REST and gRPC API with client libraries in eight languages.\n\n### How are Thomas's tools graded?\n\nGoogle Cloud Document AI is graded BB, 73.9 out of 100; Google Cloud Translation is graded B, 68.1 out of 100; Google Cloud Model Armor is graded BB, 77.9 out of 100; Google Cloud Secret Manager is graded BB, 77.4 out of 100; Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is graded BB, 70.3 out of 100; Vertex AI Gemini tuning is graded B, 64.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://about.google/intl/ALL_en/our-story/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/google\n- https://x.com/Google\n- https://cloud.google.com/contact\n- https://cloud.google.com/support-hub\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-weldon-mba14/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-weldon-mba14\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/google-cloud/\n- https://cloud.google.com/translate\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitkumbhalwar/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=%22Secret%20Manager%22\u0026currentCompany=%5B%221441%22%5D\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleymeador/\n- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/google-cloud-speech-to-text-v2-api\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/charalamposioannou/\n- https://docs.cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/support\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. 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