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10 Google data center procurement leaders
These ten current and former Google data center procurement leaders and sourcing managers have held data center, infrastructure hardware and related sourcing roles at Google. A reader can learn how data center procurement works at Google from people who have led it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andrew Coleman
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data Center Construction Category Management · Google
Head of Data Center Construction Category Management at Google since 2025, a current role. Andrew Coleman was Department Manager - Strategic Sourcing and Category Management at Intel from 2022 to 2025, a role the profile describes as leading a global organization responsible for category strategy development and management of materials, equipment, and services, and Commodity Manager at Intel from 2017 to 2021.
Bruno de Arruda
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Semiconductor Sourcing: COT, Custom Silicon & Standard Products (Cloud) · Google
Director, Global Semiconductor Sourcing: COT, Custom Silicon & Standard Products (Cloud) at Google since 2026, a current role. Bruno de Arruda also held a Director - Custom Silicon Sourcing & Silicon Operations role at Google listed from 2024 to 2026, a Custom Silicon Sourcing & Silicon Operations role from 2021 to 2024, and a Group Manager role at Facebook in 2021.
Corey Settles
LinkedInExperience: Chief Supply Chain Officer, Data Center Equipment Supply Chain · Google
Chief Supply Chain Officer, Data Center Equipment Supply Chain at Google from 2022 to 2023, a role whose description covers planning, sourcing, new product introduction, contract manufacturing and fulfillment. Corey Settles was Chief Procurement Officer, Global Technology & Operations at Bank of America from 2018 to 2022 and Head of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Procurement from 2011 to 2014.
Daniel McKinney
LinkedInExperience: Global Commodity Manager, Mechanical Cooling, Data Center · Google
Global Commodity Manager, Mechanical Cooling, Data Center at Google since 2022, a current role. Daniel McKinney was Global Category Manager at The AES Corporation from 2019 to 2022 and Commodity Buyer at Rolls-Royce from 2017 to 2019, so they bring procurement experience from energy and aerospace as well as data centers.
Dhruv Bhandari
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Data Center AI Infrastructure Sourcing and Supply Chain · Google
Director, Global Data Center AI Infrastructure Sourcing and Supply Chain at Google since 2026, a current role. Dhruv Bhandari was Senior Manager, Technology Sourcing - Infrastructure DC Equipment at Google from 2024 to 2026 and Head of Strategic Sourcing & Category Transformation - Indirects at Google from 2021 to 2024.
Haifan W.
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Commodity Management · Google
Director, Global Commodity Management at Google since 2012, a current role the profile describes as scaling a procurement team that supports Google Cloud's global infrastructure and leading sourcing and capacity build-out across seven generations of AI/ML platforms. Haifan W. was Global Supply Manager at Apple from 2010 to 2012.
Jorge Pont
LinkedInExperience: Director, Data Center Procurement and Supplier Management · Google
Director, Data Center Procurement and Supplier Management at Google from 2017 to 2025, a role the profile describes as leading the data center commodity management team for categories including CPUs, GPUs, DRAM and NAND/SSDs. Jorge Pont has been Director Commodity and Supplier Management at CoreWeave since 2026.
Qi Wang
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Thermal Strategic Sourcing · Google
Senior Manager, Thermal Strategic Sourcing at Google since 2026, with a Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager role at Google listed from 2021, and the profile ties both roles to data center white space liquid cooling. Qi Wang was Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager at Google from 2018 to 2021 and Senior Manager, Commodity Management at Bloom Energy from 2015 to 2018.
Vicki Wu
LinkedInExperience: Strategic Sourcing Manager · Google
Strategic Sourcing Manager at Google since 2026, and the profile headline describes the role as Team Manager, Strategic Sourcing, Thermals for Google AI Infrastructure. Vicki Wu was Staff GCM- Thermal (Air & Liquid-Cooling) at Google from 2020 to 2026, Senior GCM- Power & Thermal from 2018 to 2020, and Global Commodity Manager-Interconnect from 2013 to 2018.
Wen Tang
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering, Medical, Procurement and Construction · Google
Vice President of Engineering, Medical, Procurement and Construction at Google since 2019, a current role the profile describes as leading a team of over 450 people in Google Engineering, Procurement, and Construction that designs and builds hyperscale data centers. Wen Tang was Vice President, Global Engineering, Procurement, Quality, & C at Air Products from 2016 to 2019.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's category to your question: some cover chips, memory and other server components, others cover cooling, mechanical equipment or data center construction, and a few have led whole supply chain or procurement teams. For questions about how things work today, favor people whose data center role is current.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you plan sourcing for equipment with long lead times when capacity needs change quickly?
- 02How do you split decisions between engineering teams and procurement when choosing a new supplier?
- 03What do you look at first when a key data center category runs short of supply?
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