Bill Ready leads Google’s commerce business, which includes Shopping, Travel, AR Experiences and Lens, along with Google’s Payments and Next Billion Users (NBU) businesses, and the product and engineering teams that build them. Since joining the company in January 2020, he’s made a number of strategic shifts to make Google the best place for all merchants—whether small businesses, large retailers or online marketplaces - to connect with customers, and likewise for consumers to find more of what they love and connect with retailers in new ways. He took on leadership of Payments and NBU in April of 2021.