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Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) Board Tenure: 2019 – present Committee Memberships: Leadership Development, Inclusion and Compensation Committee (LDICC) (Chair); Audit Committee; Risk and Compliance Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

> Basis for Inclusion: Robin L. Washington holds a documented governance role as Chair of the Leadership Development, Inclusion and Compensation Committee and a member of both the Audit and Risk and Compliance Committees at Alphabet Inc., which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while the corporation faced significant regulatory actions directly affecting its financial interests. Washington’s triple committee role makes her one of the most broadly engaged independent directors on the Alphabet board. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

> Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

> What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Washington’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.

Biographical Overview

Robin L. Washington became President and Chief Operating and Financial Officer of Salesforce, the world’s leading CRM platform, in March 2025. Before Salesforce, she was Executive Vice President and CFO of Gilead Sciences from 2008 to 2019, managing one of the most successful pharmaceutical company balance sheets in history during the era of Gilead’s breakthrough hepatitis C drugs. She has also served as CFO of Hyperion Solutions and in senior finance roles at PeopleSoft.

Washington’s concurrent roles at Salesforce — a major enterprise software competitor and partner to Alphabet’s Google Cloud — and her deep financial expertise from Gilead make her one of the most cross-sector engaged independent directors at Alphabet. She was elected to chair the compensation committee and sits on all three of the board’s primary oversight committees.

She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco.

Board Role and Governance Authority

  • Company: Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL)
  • Board tenure: 2019 – present
  • Committee assignments: Leadership Development, Inclusion and Compensation Committee (Chair); Audit Committee; Risk and Compliance Committee (three committees — maximum engagement among Alphabet directors)
  • Day job: President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Salesforce

Other Current Board Memberships

  • Director, Salesforce Inc. (NYSE: CRM) — in executive capacity as President/COO/CFO
  • Conduct detailed research via SEC EDGAR for additional concurrent public company board seats

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Google/Alphabet corporate donor profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.

Sources

  • Alphabet Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, 2025 (annual meeting June 5, 2025)
  • Alphabet Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, 2026
  • SEC EDGAR filing: Alphabet Inc. (CIK 1652044)
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