Larissa Fontaine

Larissa Fontaine was named Stanford’s Deputy Athletics Director for Olympic Sports and Student-Athlete Success on April 14, 2026.

Fontaine returns to The Farm after spending the last 20 years at leading technology companies, including Google and YouTube, where she built and scaled teams, led billion-dollar businesses and developed partnerships across industries and platforms. Fontaine also maintained a deep connection to collegiate and Olympic sports as a Trustee for the Women’s Sports Foundation, member of the Stanford Athletics Board, member of the Leadership Council for the Positive Coaching Alliance, and as an athlete representative for the US Olympic Committee’s Athlete Advisory Council, where she held leadership roles supporting programs for athlete training and post-competition transitions to professional careers.

Responsible for advancing the end-to-end student-athlete experience, Fontaine will lead the effort to align academics, athletic performance, health and well-being, leadership development, and career readiness into a cohesive system that delivers results. As a member of Stanford’s Executive Team, Fontaine will oversee sport administration, academic advising, career development, sports performance, and gender equity.

Fontaine most recently served as Chief Product Officer at Grupo QuintoAndar, an international real estate company backed by global investors with a valuation of $5B. She led product management, user experience design, and product marketing while serving as a c-level member of the executive team. Prior to QuintoAndar, Fontaine was the Vice President and General Manager of Google One, a leading subscription offering from Google. She led a cross-functional team that included product management, engineering, user experience design and research, partnerships, strategy, marketing, and operations, to deliver best-in-class user experiences and successful business outcomes.

Fontaine also held leadership roles across mobile app distribution, YouTube, and Google search experiences. She led the Global Apps Business Development team for Google Play, working with developers around the world to drive product innovation and business performance across all Android platforms. At YouTube, Fontaine led global strategy and new business development, evolving the organization’s strategy, structure, and operating model to enable next-level scale and growth. She also led the effort to create professional content for the platform, developing the framework for partnerships across all verticals while being responsible for millions of dollars of investment in original sports content.

Fontaine is one of the most decorated gymnasts in school history, capturing the program’s first NCAA individual title in 1998 on vault while guiding the Cardinal to its first Pac-10 crown that same season. A five-time All-American, Fontaine was a team captain her senior year and ranked as the top gymnast in the nation in the all-around for three straight weeks and, until 2026, held the program’s top mark in the all-around.

Fontaine served as an assistant coach with the Cardinal women’s gymnastics program from 2000-05 and received regional assistant coach of the year honors in 2005. Throughout Fontaine’s tenure, she coached 15 NCAA All-Americans, two Pac-10 championship teams, and the first Super Six team in program history. Fontaine was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.

A 1994 World Championships team silver medalist and nine-time USA National Team member, Fontaine’s contributions to the sport reached an even higher level in January 2026, when she was appointed to serve on the Board of Directors for USA Gymnastics.

Fontaine owns four degrees from Stanford, earning a BA in English (’00), BS in Mechanical Engineering (’00), MS in Mechanical Engineering (’02), and an MBA (’08) from the Graduate School of Business.

updated April 14, 2026