Khanh Nguyen

Khanh Nguyen joined PIVOT at its founding in 2017 and has served on its board since then. He is committed to working with progressive Vietnamese Americans to protect democracy and help mitigate the damages of climate change. Among his contributions to PIVOT, Khanh works on PIVOT’s election and fundraising efforts.

Professionally, Khanh is a technology leader with a 30-year career spanning multiple industries. He conducted pioneering research in semiconductor device manufacturing at Sandia National Labs and Advanced Micro Devices, and led engineering teams at software companies of every size. He spent 17 years at Google, where he led teams in Search and Advertising and founded Google's Shopping Ads product, growing it to $20B in annual revenue over ten years. He then served as Head of Engineering at WeaveGrid, a climate-tech startup building a smarter grid to support the accelerated adoption of electric vehicles. Since retiring, Khanh has devoted his time to family and friends and to organizations working to build a more just and diverse America and to address the harm from climate change.

Khanh arrived in the US in 1978 with his family via the Leam Sing refugee camp in Thailand. His family settled in Southern California, in the city of Hawthorne with its claim to fame as the hometown of the Beach Boys.