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Ana Corrales is a business leader and the Vice President of Global Operations and Google Store for Google’s Consumer Hardware business. She has been recognized by Forbes as one of the 50 Most Powerful Latinas in Business, as one of the Most Influential Women in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times , and as a Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council.

Early life and education
Ana grew up in San Jose, Costa Rica. She credits her parents for her interest in business and engineering. Her father is an engineer, entrepreneur, and inventor in the energy industry. Her mother has a PhD in Botany and served as the Dean of La Universidad de Costa Rica and the Minister of Science and Technology in Costa Rica.

Ana moved to the U.S. to attend the University of Washington where she received her Bachelor’s in Economics. She attended Stanford where she received a Master’s of Engineering.

Career
At Google, Ana drives the development of Google hardware and Nest products -- phones like the Pixel range, laptops like the Pixelbook, smart devices for the home like Google Home, Google Wifi, Chromecast, Nest Thermostat, Nest Hello and many others -- and oversees Google’s first-party retail channel, the online Google Store.

Ana previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Nest, where she led operations and finance for all Nest branded products. She served as Senior Vice President of Product Operations at Cisco Systems for all Cisco-branded products. In 2006, Ana co-founded a startup solar company, SunModular. As the acting CEO, Ana successfully sold the company in 2010.

Ana serves on the board of directors for [https://www.wearewatermark.org/default.asp? Watermark], the Bay Area’s largest women leadership organization, and as an advisor to Roli, a company inventing new tools that extend the joy of music-making to everyone. Ana has a penchant for fashion and the arts and is active in supporting these industries.

Ana has a history of supporting STEM education for young girls. At Cisco, she provided mentorship through programs such as Programa Escuela, which is a volunteer program for employees to teach elementary-level students about technology. Ana is a champion for diversity at Google and is a member of the Women@Google board and an executive sponsor for HOLA, Google’s Latino Employee Resource Group.

She is a sponsor of Google's Initiative "She's so STEM" at Google which encourages high school girls to discover the diversity of STEM careers.

Personal life
Ana is married and has two children.

Awards
“Most Powerful and Influential Women Award” in 2017 from the National Diversity Council

“Tribute to Women Award” from the YWCA

"Industry Leader Award" in 2012 from the Professional Business Women of California (PBWC)