• by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, May 9, 2025

Jerry Dischler, president of cloud applications and former Google Ads boss, has decided to leave Google after nearly 20 years.

"Google is a remarkable company and I’m proud of the incredible things we’ve accomplished in Commerce, Ads, and now Cloud," he wrote in a LinkedIn post on Friday. "What’s most important to me is the positive impact we’ve made on the lives of billions of people and millions of businesses around the world."

He pointed to the progress the Workspace and Applied AI teams have made during the past year, and how he believes the work they have done will fundamentally change in the future. He also called the teams at Google working on these projects "incredibly talented." 

Dischler joined Google in June 2005. in November 2023, he stepped down as running Google's ads business, during the height of the DOJ Google anti-trust case. In February 2024, he stepped in to run the company's Cloud Applications unit, a unit entrenched in artificial intelligence (AI).

"Thanks for everything you've done for Google!" Dan Taylor, vice president of Global Ads at Google, wrote in a LinkedIn comment. "It was an absolute pleasure working alongside you in Ads. Your depth and curiosity and desire to move quickly made us all better."

Ginny Marvin, Google Ads liaison, wrote on X, addressed the speculation that Dischler might have stepped down because of the Google trial. She wrote that this is not the case, but rather, Dischler wanted to pursue something new.