Okalo Ikhena is a Director of Product Management at Google, and Head of Delve by Sidewalk Labs. Delve is a generative design platform empowering urban development teams to design better, healthier, happier, and more sustainable cities and communities.
Okalo has been at Alphabet for 9 years, launching new products and businesses. As a Product Lead at YouTube TV, he led product launches across tablet, TV, and Google Assistant platforms. At the Google Store, he led the product launch and growth of its new e-commerce platform across 25 countries and 50 languages. Within Google’s Area 120 incubator, he led product management and user experience design at Ally, a startup focused on connecting emerging markets startups with expertise and funding. He has spent the last 5 years building Delve to design over a billion sqft in 17+ countries through intelligent geospatial design.
Before Alphabet, Okalo began his career at Microsoft, building out mobile search experiences across iOS, Android, and web platforms. Okalo holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, and earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from Florida Institute of Technology.
In addition to his passion for improving quality of life in cities, Okalo mentors emerging product leaders, and explores urban futurism as an amateur screenwriter in his free time.
