Sam Sebastian

VP, North America — Google Cloud, Google Cloud

CloudNew YorkOn TechTO stages since 2020

Sam Sebastian ran Google Canada, then left in 2017 to become president and CEO of Pelmorex, the Oakville company behind The Weather Network. He returned to Google in 2022 as VP and country manager for Google Cloud Canada, and took a wider North American Cloud mandate in January 2025. He joined a TechTO marketing session in 2020.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO16:28

The further digitization of marketing | Sam Sebastien (Pelmorex Corp)

TechTO · August 2020

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2020. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Sam ↗

Around the web ×1

Article

CEO of Weather Network parent Pelmorex departs to lead Google's Canadian cloud businessThe Globe and Mail

2022

Quick answers

What did he do at Pelmorex?

He was president and CEO from 2017, succeeding founder Pierre Morrissette, and led the owner of The Weather Network as it pushed further into data beyond forecasting. He left in October 2022.

What is his role now?

He took a broader North American mandate for Google Cloud in January 2025, moving to New York, after two years as VP and country manager for Google Cloud Canada.

Why is his name spelled two ways?

TechTO's archive labels the talk 'Sam Sebastien'. He publishes and is reported everywhere as Sam Sebastian; this page uses that spelling.

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