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Krista Seiden is an experienced leader in the digital analytics industry living and working in the SF Bay Area. She has led analytics & optimization at companies such as Adobe, The Apollo Group, and most recently at Google. During this time she has become an expert in analytics & optimization methodology, toolsets, and steering organizational mindset.

Currently, she works as a Product Marketing Manager at Google, leading web analytics, reporting, testing, and optimization for the Enterprise Marketing team. For the past 1.5 years Krista has worked hard to build a culture of testing & optimization within Google’s Enterprise group, along the way building an internal testing platform, gaining resources by showing significant wins, and expanding testing efforts by more than 15-fold in just a few quarters. She also works very closely with the Google Analytics team on best practices, education, and internal product testing. Krista joined Google from the Apollo Group where she worked as a product analyst responsible for mobile and social analytics. Prior to Apollo, Krista worked as a web analytics manager at Adobe Systems for their Acrobat Services Group. While there she also helped lay the foundation for Adobe’s social analytics tool.

She is experienced in many areas across digital marketing, including web analytics, social analytics, and mobile analytics. Her tool skillset includes Omniture, Google Analytics, Business Objects, Microstrategy, and Tableau.

Krista is a frequent speaker for analytics & optimization and is active in the digital analytics community, including holding a position as co-chair for the San Francisco chapter of the Digital Analytics Association (DAA) as well as volunteering as a mentor for the Analysis Exchange. Recently, Krista was awarded the ‘Digital Analytics Rising Star’ award for 2014 by the DAA for her industry participation and significant business impact.

Krista also enjoys blogging and tweeting in her spare time – you can find her at www.bloggerchica.com or follow her on twitter @kristaseiden. Occasionally you will also see her guest posts on the Official Google Analytics blog or other industry publications. When she’s not working, blogging, or tweeting Krista enjoys living an active, healthy lifestyle and traveling to far off destinations. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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