Gib Olander currently serves as Director of Business Development for Localeze, a division of Amacai, the leading provider of merchant content management services, which includes collection, organization, extension and distribution of merchant content. Having a complete focus on making local search more relevant, Localeze has over 100,000 merchant contributors, whose business content is appended to the Amacai database of 14 million business records and distributed to more than 20 Local Search Properties and Internet Yellow Pages Directories.

Prior to Localeze, Gib was a Business Development Director with iCrossing (named search marketing agency of the year 2005), where he educated Fortune 500 companies on the positive results that can be achieved by creating smart content to improve organic and paid search optimization.

Living in Chicago, IL for the past 12 years, Gib was involved in the launch of Chicago.Citysearch.com when Citysearch began its push for nationwide coverage following the purchase of MSN´s Sidewalk property. Early in Gib´s career, he witnessed the power of the local advertising market and its impact on local and regional businesses when he developed advertising campaigns as well as direct mail marketing programs with The Ameritech Yellow Pages and Advo.

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