As the Global Marketing Manager for Shopping & Commerce, Andrew is responsible for launching the latest product innovations that help businesses of all sizes connect with new customers across Google and sustainably grow online – with a focus on small & diverse-owned businesses.
Within 1.5 years of joining Google Australia, Andrew received two global marketing awards for 'Flawless Execution' and 'Advancing Diversity' by the VP of Marketing. As a result of this success, Andrew transferred to the US headquarters to lead Google’s shopping & commerce efforts to power a free and open shopping ecosystem for small businesses & NGOs.
Throughout this time he has proactively utilized Google’s platform and resources to better the lives of underrepresented groups. Galvanized by his parents' struggle as small business owners during COVID-19, Andrew proactively shifted his primary work focus to helping small businesses bounce back. He ideated and authored Google’s Retail Marketing Guide equipping 3.5M+ businesses with the free online tools they need to generate sales and stay afloat during times of uncertainty. Andrew pitched for campaign funding to translate this guide into 17 languages for global accessibility and promote it in the most disadvantaged countries globally. For his contributions to commerce, Andrew received a Google “Tech Impact Award”, a recognition previously reserved for engineers.
Andrew has also used Google’s platform to better the lives of LGBTQ+ people. He co-led Google’s sponsorship of Pride, diverting money away from corporate participation in the parade to instead fund underrepresented groups of young LGBTQ people to attend. This initiative influenced many other corporations to now do the same. He also developed the content and led a free digital skills training for hundreds of LGBTQ small businesses, helping them get discovered and grow online. This initiative has now scaled globally at Google and has helped thousands more underrepresented businesses. At Advertising Week APAC (reaching 4,000+ senior leaders) he wrote and produced a panel that was centered around the importance of adopting inclusive hiring practices, titled “The Power of Difference''. This panel replaced Google-centric content to instead focus on industry diversity & inclusion, a first of its kind initiative in this event's history. These efforts culminated in Andrew featuring as 1 of 7 global employees in Google’s ‘Pride Forever’ campaign and being recognized as a 30 under 30 LGBT Future Leader and Role Model by BCG.
Through his body of work, both business-driving and philanthropic, Andrew was the first Australian featured in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2023 for the Marketing & Advertising category.