Fireside Chat with Matt Brittin, President of Google EMEA, interviewed by Jon Ratcliffe
Published 2022-02-07
This inspiring conversation is part of a series brought to you by the London Business School Marketing & Strategy Club.
Matt Brittin is the President of Google EMEA, a former Olympic athlete, and an LBS alum. He has had a long career in media and marketing, joining Google from the newspaper industry, where he led commercial and digital operations at the biggest UK publisher. Matt joined Google in 2007 to help build its business in the UK and became President of Business and Operations in EMEA in 2014. He is currently a Trustee of charity, The Media Trust.
He has an MBA from London Business School, MA from Cambridge and won silver medals for Cambridge in several boat races. He was also a member of the British rowing team and won medals in eights and fours at the World Rowing Championships and represented Great Britain at the Olympics. He is a steward of Henley Royal Regatta and he still rows regularly, though more slowly. Matt currently lives in London, near the Thames, with his wife, two sons, and a small but remarkably noisy dog.
Jon Ratcliffe has a long relationship with the London Business School, having guest lectured and organised lecture series at LBS since 2009 Jon is also the founder and CEO of Engage Video Group, a fast growth data-driven video technology company. EVG has reached billions of people with their videos over the last 5 years made for companies like Nestle, Unilever and Coca Cola. Jon has delivered keynote speeches on the main Debussy stage at the Cannes Lions multiple times focused on the power of social media video Jon is also a Global Agenda Council Member for the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM. Jon was previously Head of Advertising for Google and led YouTube sales in multiple markets around the world. Jon also worked at Google's head office in San Francisco in the GoogleX marketing team. This is Sergy Brin’s team where Jon was working on marketing of Google Glass . Until recently Jon Ratcliffe was also an advisor to the Nelson Mandela Center for Memory.