As president, Americas at Google, Margo Georgiadis leads the company’s commercial operations in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Her prior roles at Google include leading global sales operations and expanding local and commerce businesses, such as Google Wallet and Google Places. Margo is also the former chief operating officer of Groupon, and executive vice president of Card Products and chief marketing officer of Discover Financial Services. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Ad Council, The McDonald’s Corporation, NorthShore University HealthSystem, The Economic Club of Chicago, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, The Committee of 200, and The Chicago Network.
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Google’s Six Values for Business Leadership in an Age of Reimagination
The most important characteristic of successful business leaders today is the ability to embrace, inspire, and manage change. At Google, we’ve had 15 years of experience with these changes first hand. In my role as the president of our Americas sales team, I also have the good fortune of working hand-in-hand with leaders across industries who are actively reimagining how their businesses will work in the future. I’ve found six core values that I think set apart the leaders who are thriving in these turbulent and exciting times.
Incumbents and Upstarts: Media
Session Description: From advertising to manufacturing and hospitality to security, yesterday’s disruptors increasingly find themselves playing incumbent. The new evolve into the establishment. But big companies and small ones increasingly have to compete–and also partner–in all industries. It’s not easy. Two ambitious media companies–one a venerable leader, the other a spunky newcomer–explain how their size […]
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
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Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
