Christine Merritt, Head of Premier SMB Partnerships, Channel Sales North America, Google

Christine leads the Premier SMB Partnership team for Google’s Channel Sales team in North America. In this leadership role, she manages several high impact teams, and a $1Billion+ annual book of business driven by Google’s top strategic partners who service the SMB/Local advertiser space with Google’s Advertising solutions including Search, YouTube/Video and Display. Key verticals include Traditional Media Print and Broadcast, Automotive, SEM, YP and Web Hosting partners.

Prior to Google Christine spent 10 years in Enterprise Software Channel Sales and Business Development in the Data Management and Business Intelligence market. Her career spanned several acquisitions including Crystal Decisions and Business Objects culminating in her last role as Vice President of the North American Sales Center of Excellence for Enterprise Information Management at software giant SAP. Christine has a Hon. B.A. from The University of Toronto. Christine has been named to CRN's Women of the Channel 3 consecutive years and to the CRN Power 100 list in 2012.

Twitter: @chrisjenmerritt | @google