About Michael Herman

Mike began his career in 1994 with Reed Elsevier Publishing in Chicago as an advertising sales executive. In 1996 when Reed launched their online sales division he was one of the first sales people to make the transition to their newly founded online group.

In April 1997, Herman packed up his car in Chicago and headed to the Silicon Valley and jumped onboard with Netgravity. Netgravity was the first commercial Adserving Software Company. He was a Sales Manager from 1997-1998 and was responsible for selling the technology into large online publishers/websites with existing online advertising sales forces.

After being contacted by former Doubleclick CEO David Rosenblatt in 1998, Herman Joined Doubleclick pre-ipo from 1998-2002 in Strategic Business Development. He was responsible for selling the DART adserving platform into the largest online publishers including Ebay, IAC, and AOL. Herman moved to Hong Kong with Doubleclick in 2000 to help open the office there and put together the first technology licensing deals for Doubleclick in China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and SE Asia.

Google-Strategic Partner Development 2002-2006. Herman was part of the original sales and business development team under SVP Omid Kordestani for the Adsense for Syndication platform as well as licensing the Google search technology platform. The business grew from $0 in 2002 to $4B in 2006. Herman was involved in weekly forecasting and strategy meetings with the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and then CEO Eric Schmidt.

From 2009-2011 Herman was the VP of Business Dev for the startup Tweetphoto. Tweetphoto hosted about 40% of photo uploads for Twitter. TP partnered with Twitter App developers to be the default media hosting platform. TP was acquired by Lockerz (Kleiner Perkins Backed company) in Jan 2011

In 2015, Herman obtained his Nevada Real Estate License and served as the COO of Christie’s Lake Tahoe from Jan 2017- to June 2018. After selling two large estates to Mark Zuckerberg the company was acquired by Corcoran.

Mike Joined Engel&Voelkers in April 2024 and currently serving the luxury market in Reno/Tahoe.