AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2006
TOP 50
Omid Kordestani

No. 50 Omid Kordestani, VP global sales and business development, Google

Last year's position: Not placed

Why? Making Googling pay

With Omid Kordestani, Google manage to squeeze a third winner on the Agenda Setters list - along with the Google co-founders and CEO - a reflection of just what a powerhouse of useful products and services the company has become.

But as well as being full of great ideas Google has made an impressive amount of money.

Kordestani is responsible for Google's worldwide revenue generation efforts and the operations of the company's sales organisation. He joined the company in May 1999 as Google's 'business founder' and led the development and implementation of the company's initial business model.

A veteran of companies including HP and internet pioneer Netscape, Kordestani was praised by the Agenda Setters panel for being the behind-the-scenes deal maker who will take Google to "the next stage".

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Agenda Setters Past

Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll over the years:

QUOTATION

"Ray Ozzie is a radical change force for Microsoft. He is moving them in a very different direction."
--Richard Sykes, Agenda Setters panellist

"My observation is that [kids today] are far more networked and open than any other generation we have ever seen."
--Peter Cochrane, Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

The world's most powerful women Forbes.com

Smart 50 - Asia's best users of IT ZDNet Asia

Chron 500 - The San Francisco Bay Area's top public companies San Francisco Chronicle

The 50 people who matter now Business 2.0


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