Sam Sebastian is responsible for leading Google's B2B and Local Markets direct sales organizations. Sam's B2B Markets team is responsible for helping B2B manufacturers, distributors, service providers and publishers connect with their target audience around the globe to generate leads, drive sales and build brands. His Local Markets team helps locally-driven marketers -- such as classifieds, directories, government, education and franchise companies -- utilize Google's ad platform to realize greater efficiencies and returns from local advertising. To date, Google has enjoyed productive relationships with leading brands in the Local and B2B marketing space – Sam is responsible for growing those relationships and continuing to support growth and progress in the industry.

Sebastian joined Google from Classified Ventures (CV), an online joint venture of major U.S. newspaper companies, where he was the General Manager at Homescape.com and SVP, Sales & Marketing at HomeGain. Sebastian worked with the newspaper and real estate communities for over seven years at CV to grow the usage and effectiveness of online real estate and home builder products on newspaper websites.

Prior to Classified Ventures, Sebastian was a consultant with Arthur Andersen in Chicago, IL. In addition to numerous interviews in national industry publications, Sam is a regularly featured speaker at many Local & B2B Advertising trade events. Sam serves on the Board of the Business Marketing Association and the American Business Media Association. Sebastian earned a BA in Accounting from The Ohio State University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.