Omid Kordestani
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| Omid Kordestani | |
| Born | 1963 Tehran, Iran |
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| Occupation | Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of Google |
| Net worth | $2.2 Billion (2007)[1] |
| Spouse | Bita Kordestani |
Omid Kordestani (Persian: امید کردستانی) is the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of Google.
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[edit] Early life
Omid Kordestani was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to San Jose, California at the age of 14 after the death of his father. He graduated with an electrical engineering degree from San Jose State University and went to work for Hewlett Packard as an engineer. Several years later in order to pursue a business degree, he entered Stanford Business School and earned his MBA in 1991.
[edit] Career
Kordestani has more than a dozen years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, including key positions at Internet pioneer Netscape Communications. Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations, is fast turning the privately held company into a maniacally profitable outfit. He joined in May 1999 as Google's "business founder," leading the development and implementation of the company’s initial business model. Since then he has brought Google to profitability in record time, generating more than $6 billion in revenue in 2005. He is directly responsible for Google's worldwide revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company’s sales organization. His efforts have transformed the world's top search destination into online advertising's hottest property — scoring more than 100,000 advertisers in just 18 months. He was also vice president of Business Development and Sales and grew Netscape's website revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 million to more than $200 million in 18 months. 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. Prior to Netscape, Kordestani held positions in marketing, product management, and business development at The 3DO Company, Go Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.
In the May 8, 2006 issue of Time Magazine, Kordestani was named one of Time's "100 People who shape our world".[1]
Kordestani is one of the wealthiest residents in Northern California. San Jose magazine estimates his net worth at $1.9 billion.
He selected as Persian Man of the Year 2007 by Persian Awards®.
