Council Member
Appointed by Council.
Term expires 31 December 2025.
Natalie Piucco was appointed as the graduate member on Council, effective 1 January 2022 for a four year term.
Natalie is a Born in the Cloud Google Technologist with experience driving digital & data transformation across both European and Asia Pacific. For the past eight years, alongside having a front row seat in the Engineering & Customer Experience Practices of the hypergrowth Google Cloud Business, Natalie has supported the engineering through to the commercialisation and delivery of Digital solutions in partnership with Fortune 500 companies looking to drive new Innovation & Ventures.
Natalie has also championed Digital Native business through growth and new product development. She has supported the launch and scale inside Google of 5 consumer products including with Google Photos, Google's AI Practice, Workspace Collaboration Tools & Googles Hardware Business, Pixel & Chrome, scaled to billions of Users.
Natalie is Human API, a connector of ideas with disruptive technology, and is most helpful in complex unsolved problems that require radical rethinking, merging technology and people that improve the world we live in. Natalie remains in the forefront of this thinking through keeping a pulse in the venture capital space in Asia and US Markets through a passion for supporting start-ups and by sitting on the Go-to-Market board of Google's CapitalG Venture Arm.
Natalie has completed studies at the University of Wollongong and in addition has studied Innovation and Leadership at Oxford and Stanford Universities. Natalie is a strong advocate for women technology where she was recognised by ARNs 2019 Australian Women in Technology and 2020 Cisco Women in IT.