Ms. Tharp served as Vice President, Retail and Consumer, for Google Cloud, a global cloud provider, from August 2019 to March 2023, when she was named to her current post at Google Cloud of Vice President, Global Strategic Industries. In her current role she is responsible for all industries including retail, consumer goods, media and entertainment, financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications. Between October 2016 and July 2019, she was Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer of luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group and served as Interim Neiman Marcus Brand President from January 2019 until July 2019. Neiman Marcus filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2020. From June 2013 until September 2016, Ms. Tharp served as Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of eCommerce for Fossil Group, a multi-brand watch and accessories business. Prior to that, she held various management positions with Travelocity and Dean Foods.  Ms. Tharp is a member of the board of privately-held premier off-price ecommerce company, Rue Gilt Groupe, Inc., and serves on the board of privately-held, digitally-native luxury company Moda Operandi.  She has also served on the board of The National Retail Federation (NRF) since 2023.

Ms. Tharp has extensive omni-channel retail experience, including in the handbag and accessories categories; a track record of growth and profit performance improvement; and expertise in e-commerce, marketing with vertically integrated consumer brands, brand management, digital fluency, social media, customer insights, analytics, customer strategy, and machine learning/Artificial Intelligence (AI), and generative AI.