Visual Map of Google-DoubleClick Relationships

Google's acquisition of DoubleClick may have been the culmination of multiple 'behind-the-scenes' relationships between the two companies. Common relationships between Google and DoubleClick that IntellectSpace’s Knowledge Map discovered are:

-Eric Schmidt's (Google's CEO and former Chairman) is on the Board of Siebel, and likely crossed paths with Peter Krainik, who was a senior VP at Seibel before assuming the post of Chief Marketing Officer at DoubleClick.

-Ann Mather spent over 10 years at Disney before becoming a Director of Google, and Thomas S Murphy was the long-time Chairman of Disney prior to becoming a Director of DoubleClick.

-Patrick J Healy, Mark E Nunnelly, and David N Strohm, who are all board members of DoubleClick, attended Harvard Business School with John Doerr, who sits on Google's board of directors.

-Kavitark Ram Shriram sits on the Board of Google and is an alumni of University of Michigan  with Kevin J O’Connor – DoubleClick’s founder and former Chairman and CEO.

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