Omid Kordestani

Foundation members Bita Daryabari and her husband, Omid Kordestani of Google. Chronicle photo by Catherine Bigelow

Omid Kordestani was Google’s 12th employee and is now a senior officer there. He feels lucky to have gotten out of Iran when he did, but remains optimistic about the two countries’ futures.

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Senior Vice President, Global Sales & BusinessDevelopment Omid Kordestani is the Senior Vice President of GlobalSales and Business Development. He is directlyresponsible for Google's worldwide revenue generationefforts as well as the day-to-day operations of thecompany’s sales organization. He joined in May 1999 asGoogle's "business founder," leading the developmentand implementation of the company’s initial businessmodel. Since then he has brought Google toprofitability in record time, generating more than $6billion in revenue in 2005. Omid has more than 20 years of high technologyconsumer and enterprise experience, holding keypositions at several startups, including Internetpioneer Netscape Communications. As vice president ofBusiness Development and Sales, he grew Netscape'sonline revenue from an annual run-rate of $88 millionto more than $200 million in 18 months. Prior to Netscape, he held positions in marketing,product management, and business development at The3DO Company, Go Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.Omid received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate Schoolof Business in 1991 and a Bachelor of Science degreein electrical engineering from San Jose StateUniversity in 1984. 2) When Kordestani, 40, joined Google from Netscape fouryears ago, search engines were a hard sell. But heavoided pushy pop-up ads and intrusive banners andbegan to sell paid listings. It's a simple yeteffective method, perfected by rival Overture.Sponsors pay for the rights to keywords: when a userenters a keyword, a related sponsored ad appearsalongside the search results. Despite the success ofthe model, Google insists it's not money obsessed.Kordestani once walked away from a multimillion-dollardeal because he didn't see a smooth fit with thecustomer. "At Google, a lot of times we actually turnaway revenue because we only want quality, repeatablerevenue, not just a customer for a quarter," he says. Among co-workers, he's known as the king of instantmessaging. Of the hundreds of employees Kordestanioversees globally, he personally reviews each hire,making sure it passes his airport test: "If I'm stuckin an airport with one of these employees, I want toenjoy my time and have an intelligent conversation." Miraculously, he's forged an ad strategy that appealsto his bosses, online advertisers and Web purists wholove Google's noncommercial look and feel. Tenstraight quarters of profitability isn't bad either.