Omid R Kordestani is an Iranian-American businessman who was the Executive Chairman at Twitter from October 2015 to June 2020 and a board member of the company until October 2022.
18 Facts About Omid Kordestani
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Omid Kordestani was a Senior Vice President, the Chief Business Officer, and most recently a special advisor to the chief executive officer and founders at Google from July 2014 to October 2015 and was a director of Vodafone from March 2013 to October 2014.
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Omid Kordestani was born in Tehran, Iran and he attended Andisheh Don Bosco School, an Italian Catholic school in Tehran that emphasized education and language skills.
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Omid Kordestani moved to San Jose, California after the death of his father in 1976.
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In 1980, Omid Kordestani graduated from Buchser High School in Santa Clara, California.
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Omid Kordestani later received an electrical engineering degree from San Jose State University and went to work for Hewlett-Packard as an engineer.
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Omid Kordestani has more than a dozen years of high-technology consumer and enterprise experience, including key positions at Internet pioneer Netscape Communications.
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Omid Kordestani was 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.
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Omid Kordestani started his career at 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.
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Omid Kordestani joined Google in May 1999, leading the development and implementation of the company's initial business model and was Google's senior vice president of worldwide sales and field operations until April 16,2009.
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Omid Kordestani played a part in Google's worldwide revenue generation efforts as well as the day-to-day operations of the company's sales organization.
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On July 18,2014, Omid Kordestani came back to Google to fill the vacancy of Chief Business Officer at Google after Nikesh Arora, who was recruited to Google by Omid Kordestani himself, left for SoftBank.
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On October 14,2015, Omid Kordestani left Google and became Executive Chairman at Twitter.
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Omid Kordestani remained a member of the board until its dissolution in October 2022.
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In December 2021, Omid Kordestani was appointed as chairman of the Board at Pearson plc.
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Omid Kordestani was one of the founders of PARSA Community Foundation, an Iranian cultural, heritage, entrepreneurship, and philanthropic society based in Redwood City, California.
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Omid Kordestani has two children with Daryabari, and two with Gisel Omid Kordestani, whom he married in 2011.
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Omid Kordestani was selected as the Persian Person of the Year in 2007 by Persian Awards.