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Former Google Cloud VP Joins AI Startup DataRobot

By Kevin McLaughlin
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Artificial intelligence startup DataRobot has hired Debanjan Saha, former vice president and general manager of Google Cloud’s data analytics business, as president and chief operating officer. Saha is the latest of several veteran executives DataRobot has hired in recent months to help it prepare for a long-awaited IPO. His duties at Google Cloud included managing BigQuery, the data...

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