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	Omid Kordestani: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Omid received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1991 and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University in 1984.
		Omid joined Netscape as director of OEM Sales, and during his four-year career at that company he was responsible for establishing major customer relationships with Citibank, AOL, Amazon, Intuit, Travelocity, Intel, @Home, eBay, and Excite.
		Omid received an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Kordestani_Omid_697573.htm (590 words)

	Omid Kordestani, Google NIPOC Network of Iranian American Professionals of Orange County California Iranian Cultural ...
		As the individual responsible for Google's revenue generation efforts, Omid Kordestani is the tireless leader of an international sales effort that has brought Google to profitability in record time.
		Kordestani joined Netscape as director of OEM Sales, and during his four-year career at that company he was responsible for establishing major customer relationships with Citibank, AOL, Amazon, Intuit, Travelocity, Intel, @Home, eBay, and Excite.
		Kordestani received an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University.
	www.nipoc.org /Omid_Kordestani.htm (180 words)

	Headlines - Do What You Love, Not What Pays the Most, Says Google's Kordestani - Stanford GSB
		Kordestani, today the senior vice president of global sales and business development at Google, told an audience of first-year business students to listen to the same instincts that landed him at the top of the Silicon Valley search and information giant: Don’t follow money, but pursue what inspires you.
		Dean Robert L. Joss introduced Kordestani as a man who “personifies the American dream.” Born in Iran, Kordestani moved to San Jose at age 14 after the death of his father.
		Kordestani described his job offer from Google’s founders as a moment when money could have gotten in the way of doing what he really wanted.
	www.gsb.stanford.edu /news/headlines/vftt_kordestani.shtml (705 words)

	SearchViews : John Battelle Talks to Omid Kordestani at Web 2.0
		Kordestani: I learned a lot at Netscape that could be applied to Google.
		(Omid then went on to say that he knew that the passion he saw in Larry and Sergey was such that it didn't matter what they were building.
		Kordestani: At Netscape we were tied to meeting numbers.
	searchviews.com /archives/2005/10/john_battelle_t_2.php (521 words)

	Omid Kordestani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Omid Kordestani (Kurdish: Umîd Kurdistanî; Persian: امید کردستانی) is the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of Google.
		Kordestani has more than a dozen years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, including key positions at Internet pioneer Netscape Communications.
		He started his career in Netscape as director of OEM Sales, and during his four-year career at that company he was responsible for establishing major customer relationships with Citibank, AOL, Amazon, Intuit, Travelocity, Intel, @Home, eBay, and Excite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omid_Kordestani (202 words)

	Google `business founder' No. 1 Mercury News, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Sometime after Google went public in August 2004, sales chief Omid Kordestani shared his thoughts on the essentials for success with a group of Silicon Valley businesswomen.
		And when the 42-year-old salesman's stock option gains are measured against those of his peers, Kordestani "probably is the world's highest-paid sales executive" in 2005, said compensation expert Graef Crystal.
		Kordestani is also known as Google's "business founder," the guy who helped Sergey Brin and Larry Page figure...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_kmtmn/is_200605/ai_n16382855 (192 words)

	TIME.com: Omid Kordestani -- May 8, 2006 -- Page 1
		Behind the scenes in Google's relentless thirst for more is Omid Kordestani, 42, its senior vice president for global sales and business development.
		Kordestani isn't as well known as Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page or even company CEO Eric Schmidt.
		In a post-dot-bomb society, you gotta love that Kordestani and the rest of the Google team didn't follow the folly of so many others and succumb to an IPO right away.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187475,00.html (605 words)

	AskMen.com - Travel Integrated Business Trip
		One of the most successful executives of the Internet era (if we can call it that), Google's Omid Kordestani, has a good sense of the kind of person he likes to hire and work with.
		Kordestani's remark casts a new light on the repercussions of business travel for young professionals.
		The same way that previous generations saw their careers accelerate on golf courses and in social clubs, many of today's business relationships are forged outside of work hours and work headquarters.
	www.askmen.com /money/professional_100/123b_professional_life.html (954 words)

	IT Conversations: Omid Kordestani
		In 1999 Omid Kordestani became the "first guy with a suit" at Google.
		Kordestani discusses the growth potential in Google's core advertising business and the extent to which the company now resembles the Microsoft of the 1990s.
		Omid Kordestani is the individual directly responsible for Google's revenue generation efforts and has led an international sales effort that has brought Google to profitability in record time.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail818.html (730 words)

	SEC Info - Kordestani Omid - 3 - Google Inc - For 6/28/04
		Kordestani Omid · 3 · Google Inc · For 6/28/04
		As Of Filer Filing As/For/On Docs:Pgs Issuer Agent 6/28/04 Kordestani Omid
		This is an EDGAR XML document rendered as filed.
	www.secinfo.com /d141Nx.1Vsb.htm (432 words)

	E:M \| Omid Kordestani should know that AdSense fails Unicode (utf-8)
		Omid Kordestani should know that AdSense fails Unicode (utf-8)
		I hope Omid Kordestani, the Iranian VP of Google, reads this and let the engineers know about it.
		Omid couldn't even get google to have a norouz day.
	hoder.com /weblog/archives/008443.shtml (646 words)

	ITworld.com - Google acquires Usenet archive from Deja.com
		Google aims to have the entire archive of some 500 million messages available by the end of this calendar quarter, said Omid Kordestani, Google vice president of business development and sales, in an interview.
		Their job fates are uncertain at the moment, although Google will work closely with Deja's remaining executive staff to possibly place people in jobs at the search engine company.
		Undoubtedly, there is crossover in the user groups, although Kordestani said he did not know how many Google users also are Usenet fans and vice versa.
	www.itworld.com /Tech/2428/IW010212hngoogleit/pfindex.html (366 words)

	Webcast: Google's Omid Kordestani esident Speaks to Stanford Business School Students - Google Blogoscoped Forum
		Omid Kordestani, MBA '91, took a chance in 1999 and joined the 1-year-old startup Google, which he then helped transform into one of the world's most successful brands."
		After a Netscape colleague introduced him to former Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, he met with the engineers over a ping pong table.
		When his wife reminded him of his passion for growing small businesses, he realized the decision he had to make and became the first business-side employee at Google in 1999.
	blog.outer-court.com /forum/71779.html (281 words)

	Google Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (GOOG) - SeekingAlpha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Just building on Omid’s answer real quickly and I’ll cover the UK, I think that it really is our ability to offer a unified platform for all media to our advertisers and extend the accountability of online to other media that you’re really going to see.
		Yes, as Eric mentioned, this is a big focus for us and it was highlighted by several operations that got established last quarter from Brazil to Mexico, Poland, Israel, the European regions and Turkey.
		Omid may well know the answer on that.
	internet.seekingalpha.com /article/6351 (9496 words)

	The Conversations Network Forum / Omid Kordestani - A Conversation with Omid Kordestani
		Omid Kordestani - A Conversation with Omid Kordestani
		As Google's phenomenal growth rate continues it must face a raft of challenging decisions, such as choosing in which direction to point the company, how to exploit whatever potential remains in its advertising business, and how the company can keep fostering innovation while remaining agile.
		Omid Kordestani, the person responsible for keeping Google profitable, discusses these issues and more with John Battelle.
	www.conversationsnetwork.org /forum/viewtopic.php?id=35 (111 words)

	» PC Forum: Searching the dark matter and users \| Between the Lines \| MSN Tech & Gadgets
		The data sits in peoples’ heads, databases, government offices, closets, etc. "Lighting up the dark matter is going to be one of biggest drivers in next step of search," Barton added.
		Omid Kordestani, senior vice president of global sales and business development at Google, talked about the search engine’s approach to indexing the world’s information and how search is more than PageRank, which was implemented n 1998.
		Finally, Seth Goldstein of Root Markets, which allows users to store and share their Web trails (data streams), asked Kordestani and Weiner whether users own the rights to the data trails they leave on Google and Yahoo.
	blogs.zdnet.com /MSN/?p=2715 (1013 words)

	Google's Omid Kordestani Talks; Larry Page Enjoys Timing Queries
		This time, the SearchViews team (thanks!) offers highlights of a conversation between John and Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development at Google.
		Kordestani also tells JB that he thinks Google is just getting going and adds that Larry Page still thinks that Google doesn't work very well.
		While we're on the topic of Larry Page, Elinor Mills from News.com shares other comments that Kordestani made during his Web 2.0 conversation.
	blog.searchenginewatch.com /blog/051007-123942 (477 words)

	Event Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		The Technology/Sales and Marketing Roundtable welcome Omid Kordestani, SVP, Global Sales and Business Development, Google Inc.
		Omid Kordestani joined Google in 1999 from Netscape as the 12th employee and "business founder".
		He has been the individual responsible for Google's revenue generation efforts from the start and has led an international sales effort that helped drive the company's exponential growth and generate over $6billion dollars in revenue in fiscal year 2005, which ranks Omid as the most successful sales leader ever.
	www.hbsanc.org /events/EventDetail.asp?id=SB405/SB405 (128 words)

	iranian.com: Here & there
		Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president of world wide sales/operations, sold about 2.5 million shares with a value of about $482 million.
		Kordestani sold 192,421 shares for proceeds of about $37 million later in the week.
		Co-founder Larry Page sold a total of 260,000 shares in a series of transactions on Monday and Tuesday for more than $51 million.
	www.iranian.com /PhotoDay/2005/February/kord.html (165 words)

	A Conversation with Omid Kordestani - Google Blogoscoped Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-10)
		Since then it has been his job to lead the company's revenue generation efforts, which makes him a key source for insights into the Google business strategy.
		In conversation with John Battelle Kordestani considers where Google is going and what business it is really in.
		Titans Column: Omid Kordestani – John Battelle's Searchblog
	blog.outer-court.com /forum/14297.html (85 words)

	Google's Kordestani Cashes out for $200M \| Threadwatch.org
		Looks like Google's Omid Kordestani is cashing out to the tune of $200M in Google stock sales.
		The link in the main story of this post seems to refer to "KORDESTANI, ORNLD & DARYABARI, B. TR'01 (O&B)" - not Omid Kordestani.
		To me it seems he got two and a half million shares in October and have put these in a trust, and then he's been selling "small" portions ever since.
	www.threadwatch.org /node/4720 (356 words)

	Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
		London's Daily Telegraph is reporting that Google is considering charging customers for some of its services, especially the new Google News.
		The Telegraph quotes Omid Kordestani, senior vice president, as saying, "We may experiment with ways of monetizing after we have got the service right.
		So far, we have found it better to keep the service free and charge for targeted advertising." Kordestani was visiting Europe to promote Google's advertising business.
	www.poynter.org /dg.lts/id.31/aid.8789/column.htm (159 words)

	tech.memeorandum @ 2:05 PM ET, October 27, 2005
		TITANS COLUMN: OMID KORDESTANI — I interviewed Omid a couple of months ago for my B2.0 column, here it is in full.
		— TITANS OF TECH — The Wizard of Ads — Google's Omid Kordestani conjured a formula that took its sales to $3 billion.
		Now he's rethinking the world of advertising again.
	www.techmeme.com /051027/p10 (1137 words)

	Google striving to be more nimble, innovative - News - ZDNet
		Search giant trying not to be "viewed as a gorilla" in tech
		At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Google Senior Vice President Omid Kordestani tells host John Battelle that Google is sensitive to the fact that it is often compared to Microsoft for its growth and widening amibitions.
		Quick feet, quicker beats and things to do while 'Waiting'
	zdnet.com.com /1606-2-5890296.html (321 words)

	The Browser: Google searches for TV chief - Mar. 30, 2006
		By Owen Thomas, Business 2.0 Magazine online editor and Oliver Ryan, Fortune reporter
		SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - Last fall, Google sales chief Omid Kordestani speculated on the possibility of putting Google's lucrative contextual ads on television.
		Now the company is moving to make Google TV a reality by listing a job opening for a product manager to oversee the effort.
	money.cnn.com /2006/03/30/technology/business2_browser0330/index.htm (925 words)

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