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"Amit Singh runs the enterprise sales operations. When he joined from Oracle in 2010, recruited by former business chief Nikesh Arora, Googlers were worried he wouldn’t fit with the culture (i.e. wasn’t Google-y enough), said one former employee. But he has proven his operational chops since.

Singh has also recruited some notable deputies, including Shahla Aly, a Microsoft VP, who runs customer experience; Miles Ward, a systems architect specialist from AWS; and Brian Stevens, the one-time CTO of enterprise security stalwart Red Hat. Prabhakar Raghavan, a research veteran of IBM and Yahoo, leads up enterprise app engineering.

And Greene is likely on the prowl for more talent — possibly, we’ve heard, from her old company VMware."

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