Mary OBrien
Small Business Owner in San Luis Obispo, California
Mary O'Brien is a partner in SimplePastimes, Inc.
She was previously the founder of Alteract Marketing and chairman of the PPC Summits. She trained over 7000 advertisers how to use Search Engine Marketing at advertiser workshops sponsored by Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft Bing and at PPC Summits from 2007 to 2011.
Before that, she was the Sr. Director of Training & Organization Development for Overture Services (Yahoo! Search Marketing). She was also responsible for the sales and account management teams, working with and optimizing campaigns for many leading advertisers such as eBay, Amazon, Expedia etc.
She is currently VP Sales & Marketing at SimplePastimes, Inc. a company she co-founded in 2003. She is also collaborating as an advisory board member with several startups and serves on the Advisory Board of the Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.