Garima Sahai is Senior Vice President, Technology at Cambiar Education.
As SVP Technology at Cambiar, Garima leads tech integration, platforming and products for Cambiar's in-house ventures, and serves as an advisor for the broader set of ventures and grantees.
Garima is a seasoned technology and product leader with 20+ years of experience, most recently as Director of Engineering at Google, leading a team of 150+ for Search and Map Ads. She started her career at Google in 2003 as a Software engineer and has contributed to and led multiple global user facing products across Google Books and Google Ads/Maps.
Experiencing education & equity as key enablers in her own journey, Garima is very passionate and motivated to leverage her expertise & experience towards driving social impact. While at Google, she served as a DEI lead and Women in Tech champion, recently volunteering for the Google.org Spelman project for minority women in STEM. She currently serves on the Board for Family Engagement Lab, a non-profit working on educational equity in the US; and the Advisory Board for Unit Of Impact, a joint venture of 3 B-Corps, and a platform for measuring social impact and creating compelling impact reports for small businesses.
Garima has a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and BTech in CS from BITS, Pilani, India. Garima lives in the Bay Area, California and is a proud mother of 2.