Mary Himinkool

Ms. Mary Himinkool is Head of Global Entrepreneurship Outreach at Google Ventures.
Ms. Himinkool joined Google in 2004 as part of the legal team working on the company's IPO and then moved to New Business Development where she spent 6 years focused on a range of early stage product incubation efforts and partnerships.
She led dozens of strategic technology partnerships across products including Gmail, Google Docs, Search, News, Chrome, Public Data, Social & Enterprise.
Ms. Himinkool spent 4 of those years in Google's NYC office jumpstarting the team's East Coast efforts and also incubated product partnerships for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa out of Zurich.
She is an active leader in entrepreneur and developer outreach efforts both in the US and internationally, spanning initiatives in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
She has led exploratory trips and efforts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and the West Bank.
Ms. Himinkool earned her BA and MA in sociology from Stanford University and sits on the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors.