Shona Brown

Who is Shona Brown?

Shona Brown took on responsibilities for Google's

business operations in 2003, following almost a decade consulting with

technology clients in Toronto and Los Angeles for McKinsey

Company. As a partner at McKinsey, she was a leader of the global

strategy practice and worked with a wide range of firms on strategy

development, business model transformation and operational issues. Her

experience includes extensive work in consumer software and hardware

technology, online consumer services, and Internet media markets.

She

has taught in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Graduate

School of Business at Stanford University and within McKinsey's

mini-MBA program. She is the author of the best-selling business book, Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos,

which introduced a new strategic model for competing in volatile

markets, and she has published broadly in both applied and academic

journals.

Shona has a

bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering from Carleton

University in Canada and a master's degree in economics and philosophy

from Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. She received her Ph.D. and

postdoctoral degree from Stanford University's Department of Industrial

Engineering and Engineering Management.