March Luncheon 2010 - Rikard Steiber, Google

Curious about the world’s most talked about company?

Well, there is one Swede who knows more than the rest of us…

The Swedish American Chamber of Commerce is honored to have one of our own as our March Speaker.

Rikard Steiber is Global Ads Marketing Director at Google. This includes product marketing and product launch responsibility for all Google advertising products. His speech will focus on interesting trends on the Internet today and how you can use the power of the Internet to generate more business. He will also discuss different perspectives on what could be our generation’s most prominent company – Google.

To find more information about Rikard Steiber, please visit Nordstjernan's website and read Rikard's interview with Ulf Mårtensson:

http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/people/1992/

Rikard Steiber

Global Ads Marketing Director, Google

Mr. Steiber is Global Ads Marketing Director at Google. This includes product marketing and product launch responsibility for all Google advertising products. Before moving to the US he managed Product Marketing for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at Google. This included product marketing and launch responsibility for all Google products in the region e.g. Adwords, AdSense, Search/iGoogle, Maps/Earth, Gmail/Apps, YouTube, Mobile, Android, Chrome etc.

Prior to Google, Mr. Steiber was Managing Director and co-founder of XLENT Strategy a leading Nordic telecom & media focused strategy consulting firm in the Nordic countries. Before co-founding XLENT Strategy, Mr. Steiber was one of the co-founders and a senior director at Scandinavia Online AB, the leading public Internet Portal company in Scandinavia. Prior to this Mr. Steiber set-up and managed the multimedia department at TeliaSonera, the leading telecom company in Sweden and at Procter and Gamble he has worked with brand management. Steiber got a MSc from SDA Bocconi, Milano Italy and BSc. from Chalmers University, Gothenburg Sweden.