Shona Brown

[4] From October 1995 to August 2003, Brown was at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, as a partner in the Los Angeles office since December 2000.

[5][1] In 1998, she published the book Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, with co-author Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, her doctoral advisor at Stanford.

[9] In October 2007 she was involved with an illegal non-solicitation compact to not poach engineers from Apple Inc.[10][3] Fortune ranked Brown the sixth highest paid woman in 2010, with over $16 million in total compensation.

[11] Effective April 13, 2011, Brown kept her title of senior vice president for Google, but business operations and human resources were moved under chief financial officer Patrick Pichette.

[15] Shona Brown is currently serving as consultant/board member for a portfolio of corporate technology start-ups including Xperiel, Betterworks, ClearStoryData, Candor Inc, and Paperless Post.