Austin Bates

Austin Bates leads Gemini for Higher Education in North America at Google, partnering with universities to unlock new possibilities in higher education for students, staff, faculty, and researchers. A seasoned go-to-market strategist, Austin specializes in building and scaling Education offerings within world-class technology companies. Prior to Google, he built and led the Education Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for OpenAI, Slack and OpenDNS. Austin began his career in strategic and crisis communications at Singer Associates after graduating from Chico State.