Shona Brown

Brown joined Google in 2003 and took on the responsibility of building both the People Operations and Business Operations groups. Prior to joining Google from October 1995 to August 2003, Brown was at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm, where Brown had been a partner in the Los Angeles office since December 2000... compensation $16M in 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shona_Brown

In 2011 moved to GoogleOrg.

Left Google end-2012 to become consultant. *“It’ll be fun to take the lessons I learned at Google,” Brown adds. And what might they be? She ticks off three:

1. “People are the most important thing.”
2. “Integrity is as important as brilliance.”
3. “You don’t have to have the highest IQ or EQ–but some combination–to add value to geeks and brainiacs.”*

Ironically, she was party to the system that led to the High Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation.