{"id":999139,"date":"2026-03-25T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999139"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:07:40","slug":"google-cloud-partner-program-head-who-said-ai-is-googles-birthright-departs-suddenly-microsofts-former-channel-sales-head-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/google-cloud-partner-program-head-who-said-ai-is-googles-birthright-departs-suddenly-microsofts-former-channel-sales-head-takes-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud Partner Program head who said &#8216;AI is Google\u2019s birthright&#8217;, departs &#8216;suddenly&#8217;; Microsoft\u2019s former channel sales head takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud has reportedly undergone a major leadership shift in its partner organization. According to a report in CRN, &#8220;Google Cloud\u2019s global partner program leader Colleen Kapase has suddenly left the $71 billion cloud giant and is being replaced by Microsoft\u2019s former worldwide channel sales head David Smith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Smith, a Microsoft veteran of almost 30 years and most recently its vice president of worldwide channel sales, joined Google in November 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud has reportedly undergone a major leadership shift in its partner organization. According to a report in CRN, &#8220;Google Cloud\u2019s global partner program leader Colleen Kapase has suddenly left the $71 billion cloud giant and is being replaced by Microsoft\u2019s former worldwide channel sales head David Smith.&#8221; David Smith, a Microsoft veteran of almost 30 years and most recently its vice president of worldwide channel sales, joined Google in November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}