Omid Kordestani

Former Google chief business officer; former executive chairman of Twitter

Google's 12th employee studied at San Jose State, then short stint at Hewlett-Packard. Stanford M.B.A., then startups 3DO, Go Corp. Was at Netscape when he met Brin and Page in 1999. Googlers invited him over for Ping-Pong in a garage, then he bought dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Google's "business founder" joined fellow Netscaper and Google board member K. Ram Shriram in 1999. Now Iranian immigrant owns stake worth $700 million. Led $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube 2006.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Business Positions

X, formerly known as Twitter microblogging social media platform

• executive president (Oct '15→May '20)

Google Inc. American multinational technology company; specializes in Internet-related services, products

• chief business officer (Aug '14→Aug '15) [+1]

• senior vicepresident worldwide sales and business development ('99→'09)

Board Memberships

X, formerly known as Twitter microblogging social media platform

• director (Oct '15→?)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

• 6 contributions · 44,100 USD ('07→'11)

Democratic National Committee Governing body for the U.S. Democratic Party

• 1 contribution · 30,800 USD ('11)

Harry Reid Late US Senator and Representative from Nevada

• 3 contributions · 14,800 USD ('10→Jun 8 '10)

Iranian American Political Action Committee - Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans

• 3 contributions · 12,500 USD ('06→Jun 26 '13)

Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State & NY Senator; 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate

• 6 contributions · 9,932 USD (Jul 10 '15→Feb 19 '16)

Nevada State Democratic Party

• 1 contribution · 5,200 USD ('10)

Google Inc. Google Netpac Google's PAC

• 1 contribution · 5,000 USD ('11)

Schools

San Jose State University

• Bachelor of Arts / Science

Stanford University One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions

• Master of Business Administration