Andrea Zurek

Current

• Angel Investor at Plug and Play Tech Center
• Founding Partner at XG Ventures
• Board Member at Sand Hill Angels

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Past

• Agency Training Program Manager at Google
• Rally Driver at Gumball 3000
• Regional Sales Manager at Google

• Business Development Executive at VoicePlanet
• Account Executive at International Data Group
• Account Executive at Computerworld
• Project Manager at Hitachi

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Education

• Santa Clara University

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Industry

Internet

Andrea Zurek’s Summary

Andrea Zurek is currently a Founding Partner at XG Ventures, an angel investment company. Andrea most recently worked at Google, as a Regional Sales Manager and as an Agency Training Program Manager, within the direct sales organization. She has over 16 years of sales experience in both the print and Internet advertising industries.

She founded and managed a group of national trainers who were responsible for educating the top advertising agencies, and their Fortune 500 clients from Madison Avenue to the local San Francisco market. The education they provided was centered on the Google advertising platform as well as all the newest ad and consumer product releases. She had been with Google for over 7 years, joining in early 2000, and was one of the original sales people hired to sell Google advertising. For 5 years, she built and managed the West Coast sales region, hiring, managing and leading over 30 sales people with annual bookings of $100M+. She was responsible for inking over 200+ deals of new business, across multiple verticals, including building original partnerships with eBay, Wal-Mart, E*Trade, CNet, and Sun Microsystems. Prior to joining Google, she worked at Computerworld, an IDG publication, selling print advertising to high tech, enterprise companies.

Andrea received both her BA in English, as well as an MBA in Marketing from Santa Clara University. She has a passion for Italian automobiles, cooking, and recently completed her professional racing license to compete in the Skip Barber regional and national race series. She was most recently honored and profiled in the 2009 Top 40 Under 40 in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. She also is a member of the Board of Directors at Sand Hill Angels and was profiled in a December 2007 article in the New York Times, as well as a TechCrunch article, profiling Google Angel Investors. XG Ventures was also recently interviewed in Read, Write Start in July 2009.

Andrea Zurek’s Specialties:

Direct sales experience, negotiation, hiring, management expertise. Advertising Agency knowledge. Several vertical industries expertise.

Andrea Zurek’s Experience

• Angel Investor

  Plug and Play Tech Center

  (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• Founding Partner

  XG Ventures

  (Investment Management industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  XG Ventures is a small group of ex-Googlers, who were early hires in strategic roles at Google. This group is now dedicated to advising and investing in supremely talented early stage teams. We learned a great deal at Google, including how its unique culture shaped a dynamic and fun enterprise. Together, with our complimentary expertise, our goal is to help successfully guide the start-up teams, in which we invest and advise, to the next stage.
  
  We provide operational and strategic expertise, mentorship, global networking contacts, and access to seed capital and beyond.
  
  XG Ventures is focused on consumer internet, mobile, and online media sectors.

• Board Member

  Sand Hill Angels

  (Internet industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years)

• Agency Training Program Manager

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  February 2000 — October 2007 (7 years 9 months)

  Managing and leading a group of US region, metro-based, Agency Training Specialists within the Google Direct Sales Organization. Providing on-going education to top Fortune 500 Agencies and Clients, regarding Google's advertising platform and consumer based products.

• Rally Driver

  Gumball 3000

  (Automotive industry)

  April 2007 — May 2007 (2 months)

  3000 mile driving excursion across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

• Regional Sales Manager

  Google

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  February 2000 — February 2004 (4 years 1 month)

• Business Development Executive

  VoicePlanet

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — February 2000 (2 years 2 months)

• Account Executive

  International Data Group

  (Internet industry)

  1993 — 1997 (4 years)

• Account Executive

  Computerworld

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1994 — February 1997 (3 years 2 months)

  Direct sales and agency experience selling both print and online media for a high-tech enterprise publication.

• Project Manager

  Hitachi

  (Public Company; HIT; Computer Hardware industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year)

Andrea Zurek’s Education

• Santa Clara University

  MBA , Marketing , 1992 — 1999

Additional Information

Andrea Zurek’s Interests:

Management training and leadership Cooking Italian automobiles Race car driving Business & investing opportunities

Andrea Zurek’s Honors:

Google Advertising Professional Launch - Distinguished Team Member

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