Mark Bennett is VP of Android GTM for Google leading teams in APAC, US and EMEA to help support our Android ecosystem partners. Previous to his current role he held the position of Hardware Partnerships lead for Google in APAC heading up Google’s hardware sales team in APAC working with retailers, carriers and other B2B partners to grow market share in a range of categories with products such as Pixel, Google Home, Nest and Chromecast. Before this he led the international business of Google Play focused on growing Google’s digital content business for games, apps, film and other content verticals in EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.

Prior to Google, Mark was the Managing Director of Blinkbox Music, part of Tesco, where he grew the streaming music service to over 2.5 million users in 18 months. Previous to this, Mark held posts at Sainsbury’s, Global Media Vault, Microsoft, HMV, Warner Music UK and EMI.

Mark read Economics & Politics at University of Bath.