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 in multiple industries. He worked on pioneering research in semiconductor device manufacturing and led engineering teams at several software startups. He spent 17 years at Google, where he led teams in Search and Advertising. During that time, he founded and grew Google's Shopping Ads product to $20B in revenue over ten years.

Recently, he has focused his career on helping to mitigate the damages of climate change and is currently the Head of Engineering at WeaveGrid, a startup working to enable a smarter grid to support the accelerated adoption of electric vehicles.

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.