Fox Martin Adair (Adaire Fox-Martin)

Fox Martin Adair (Adaire Fox-Martin)

Biography

Adair Fox-Martin was born in 1964.

1989-2007

Before joining SAP, Fox-Martin held various leadership positions at Oracle, where she worked for more than 18 years.

2008-2021

Adeira Fox-Martin has worked for the German software company SAP for more than 13.5 years. She served as a member of the Global Customer Success Executive Board, leading SAP's global sales and service organization. In other former positions at SAP, she was a member of the Executive Board for Global Customer Operations and four positions at SAP Asia-Pacific Japan from 2008 to 2017, including President, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President for Industry Business Solutions, and Vice President for Public Sector.

2021: Appointed Head of Google Cloud

In early July 2021, Google Cloud appointed SAP and Oracle veteran Adeira Fox-Martin as the head of its cloud division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Fox-Martin takes up her duties immediately, she will be based in Dublin. Her appointment followed shortly after the departure of head of the company Chris Chauri (in May 2021), who worked as the head of Google's cloud division for only 20 months.

The company said in a statement that Adeira Fox-Martin was instructed to "strengthen the market entry strategy and support the digital transformation of customers."

Among the clients of Google's cloud division are Lloyds Banking Group, Nokia, Orange, Renault, SEB and Deutsche Bank. The new leader will need to "accelerate" the "path of growth in Europe."

Under the leadership of Chiauri, who joined the company in September 2019 after ten years as executive director and CEO for EMEA at Salesforce, the company increased revenue in its region in calendar year 2020 by 41% to $3.917 billion, but senior management wanted to see a big profit.

Since 2020, Fox-Martin, the new head of Google Cloud, has been a member of the board of directors of Equinix, a data center company, and she has also been on Fortune Magazine's international list of 50 most influential women for four consecutive years.^[1]

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