Lino Cattaruzzi

Managing director, Google MENA

Google announced an initiative in 2020 to accelerate the MENA region’s economic recovery through digital transformation. ‘Grow Stronger with Google’ offered tools, training and financial grants worth more than $13m to empower local businesses and jobseekers in partnership with Saudi Post and the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Meanwhile, to develop and manage cloud data centres in Saudi Arabia, Google Cloud also partnered last year with Saudi Aramco Development Company, a subsidiary of oil giant Aramco. Recently, Google once again collaborated with Dubai Chamber of Commerce to launch ‘Business Online Presence’, a digital platform aimed at assisting UAE companies in expanding their online reach to attract new consumers. As Google MENA’s managing director, Lino Cattaruzzi is driving its regional development. Prior to joining Google MENA, Cattaruzzi was the managing director for Google in Mexico and Argentina. He formerly led the worldwide sales strategy team for online media solutions at Google’s headquarters in California. In his current role, he has managed the launch of new products and programmes tailored to the region, such as Google Assistant and YouTube Music in Arabic.