Stephen Gillett was born on January 20,1976 and is an American businessman, entrepreneur and technology leader.
27 Facts About Stephen Gillett
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Stephen Gillett is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences.
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Stephen Gillett was Chief Executive Officer of Chronicle Security, an Alphabet company born out of X, the moonshot factory and founded in 2016.
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Stephen Gillett is of Lebanese descent, his father being from Tripoli, Lebanon.
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Stephen Gillett graduated with a bachelor's degree before attending San Francisco State University, where he received his master's in business administration.
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In 2006, Stephen Gillett joined Corbis, a digital media company founded by Bill Gates, as Chief Information Officer.
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In that role, Stephen Gillett was responsible for global technology, engineering and leading platform efforts for Corbis' e-commerce and multimedia licensing business.
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Stephen Gillett opened a Corbis gallery in the three-dimensional virtual world of Second Life, the online game that has grown to more than 9 million residents since its birth in 2003.
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Stephen Gillett was hired in early 2008 as the Chief Information Officer of Starbucks, shortly after Howard Schultz returned as CEO, becoming one of the youngest CIOs of a Fortune 500 company in history, where he was responsible for leading the technological transformation of Starbucks under Howard Schultz.
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Stephen Gillett was responsible for the global technology efforts for the Starbucks transformation and founded the Starbucks Digital Ventures team in 2009, adding the GM duties to his role as CIO.
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Stephen Gillett joined Best Buy in March 2012 as President and EVP of Digital, Marketing and Business Services in Minneapolis, MN.
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Stephen Gillett was an architect of the 2012 transformation plan called Renew Blue shared at the Q4 2012 Investor meeting.
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Stephen Gillett resigned from his role at Best Buy in December 2012 to relocate back to Silicon Valley.
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Stephen Gillett joined the Board of Directors for Symantec in 2011, and was a member of the audit committee.
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In 2012, Stephen Gillett joined Symantec as its Chief Operating Officer.
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Stephen Gillett worked on the divestiture of the Veritas business, which concluded in 2015.
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Stephen Gillett departed the company as result of the COO position being retired after the company split.
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Symantec said Stephen Gillett would remain with the company in a non-executive role during a transitional period in 2015.
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In 2015 Stephen Gillett joined Google as an executive in residence at Google Ventures, where he still maintains an active advisory role.
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Stephen Gillett transferred in 2016 to Google X, the moonshot factory.
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Stephen Gillett was CEO of Chronicle, the Alphabet CyberSecurity company, born out of X, the moonshot factory which was acquired into Google Cloud.
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Stephen Gillett is currently the Chairman and CEO of Verily Life Sciences, the Alphabet health tech company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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Stephen Gillett currently serves as the chairman of the board at Granular Insurance, a position he has held since 2022.
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Stephen Gillett is an independent director on the boards of Dutch Bros and Discord.
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Previously, Stephen Gillett was a member of the board of directors at Symantec from 2011 to 2012, where he served on the audit committee.
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In 2006, Stephen Gillett was recognized as an innovative Guild Master in World of Warcraft by Wired.
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Stephen Gillett is an active and longtime player of MMORPGs.