# Emily Ma > Strategy and Operations, Google DeepMind Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyma Working to making the world a radically better place. ## Work Experience ### Strategy and Operations, Google DeepMind @ Google Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States ### Head, Special Projects, Real Estate and Workplace Services @ Google Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States AI strategy, infrastructure and resilience for Google's global real estate portfolio. ### Head, Food for Good @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States Organizing the world’s food information and making it accessible and useful in service of a future food system that is sustainable, nourishing and equitable for all. https://blog.x.company/a-new-home-for-project-delta-a39f8286b6d7 ### Adjunct Lecturer @ Stanford University School of Engineering Jan 2017 – Present On the teaching team for MS&E178 The Spirit of Entrepreneurship and MS&E472 Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series (2017 - today). I also co-designed and taught MKT574 Rethinking Purpose at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Winter 2017 and 2018. ### Board Secretary @ ReFED Jan 2020 – Present ### Board Advisor, Fundraising Co-Chair @ Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) Jan 2004 – Present ### Board Member @ Global Child Nutrition Foundation Jan 2023 – Present ### Board Member @ Telamon Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 ### Lead, Food Systems @ X, the moonshot factory Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area X is a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs who build and launch technologies that aim to improve the lives of millions, even billions, of people. Our goal: 10x impact on the world's most intractable problems, not just 10% improvement. X is part of Alphabet, Google's parent company. ### Head of Special Projects, Business Innovation @ X, the moonshot factory Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Head, Global Operations, Glass @ X, the moonshot factory Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Lecturer / Coach @ Stanford d.school Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Stanford, CA Managed and facilitated executive teams for periodic Design Thinking Bootcamp workshops. Coached and mentored d.school student teams for ME313 Human Values and Innovation in Design and ENVRES380 Large Scale Sustainable Transformations, both with Banny Banerjee. ### Chief of Staff @ PCH International Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Hong Kong / San Francisco / Cork Space making. Place making. Face making. Whatever it takes to inspire and motivate, to do good business, to build a global community across the Pacific Ocean to create, develop and ship amazing products into the world at a massive scale. ### Design Fellow : Teaching + Research @ Stanford Graduate School of Business Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Stanford, CA Creative thinking and analytical thinking are two complementary tools for innovation. Great leaders know what mode to be in when and the purpose of the GSB is to train great leaders. As the first designer-in-residence at Stanford GSB, I have collaborated with faculty to deliver design thinking curriculum and research technology to MBA students, GSB alumni, executive education participants and most importantly, school staff. Courses include 'Designing Happiness' with Jennifer Aaker and 'Frinky Science of the Mind' with Baba Shiv. Other faculty collaborators include Carole Robin, Chris Flink, Huggy Rao, Uzma Khan and Sridhar Narayanan. ### Downstream Marketing Manager @ Intuitive Surgical Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Sunnyvale, CA Developed strategy, tools and metrics to drive platform adoption in gynecology through centers of excellence. Collaborated with key surgeons, clinical sales staff and training to streamline case observations and proctoring. Built upon knowledge of organization and product line developed during a prior internship as a systems engineer. ### Program Lead @ IDEO Jan 2004 – Jan 2008 | Palo Alto, CA Negotiated and led major innovation and product development programs for a range of clients, from silicon valley start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Steelcase, Procter & Gamble, and Eli Lilly. Programs range from front-end user-centered research and strategy development to back-end detailed engineering and design for manufacturability of consumer electronics, medical devices and environments. ### Product Engineer @ IDEO Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Shanghai, China Established best practices, developed business leads, and recruited and mentored an emergent team of Chinese designers and engineers. Managed multi-national engineering and manufacturing teams. Negotiated and led IDEO Shanghai's first standalone program. Fostered resource sharing between offices and served as a liaison to China upon return to the United States. ### Biomimetics Robotics Lab Research Assistant @ Stanford University Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | Stanford, CA Proposed, conducted and published research on low-cost navigational touch sensors for mobile robotics. Paper : "A Biologically Inspired Passive Antenna for Steering Control of a Running Robot", International Symposium of Robotics Research. Designed and built force plate and data capture system to validate robotic mimicry of natural running force patterns. ## Education ### Masters of Business Administration Stanford University Graduate School of Business ### MS Mechanical Engineering in Mechatronics, Entrepreneurship Stanford University ### BS Mechanical Engineering in Controls Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emilyjma --- Source: https://flows.cv/emilyma JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/emilyma/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08