Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives from Google, is now president and Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! Mayer spent 13 years at Google, she is 37 years old, has an impressive career and a wealth of $300 million.
Yahoo’s new CEO graduated with honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in symbolic systems in 1997 and obtained a Master of Science degree in computer science at the same university. She specialized in artificial intelligence. At Stanford she taught computer programming and worked for a research laboratory of UBS research lab in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, a research institute founded by Stanford University. In 2008 she received an honoris causa doctorate degree for her work in the field of search from Illinois Institute of Technology.
After she completed his studies at Stanford, she received 14 job offers of which, after a lengthy discussion with her boyfriend, she chose Google as the 20th employee and the first female engineer. Mayer joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer. She helped design the home page of Google and set up the “Google’s Associate Product Manager”, a program that is aimed at computer graduates giving them an opportunity to collaborate with Google engineers.
Marissa Mayer married in 2009 Zach Bogue, a co-founder of a private-equity company. During the time she worked at Google, Mayer was an engineer, designer, product manager, director and launched more than a hundred products and ideas, according to a Yahoo! official. Recently, Mayer was vice president of maps and location services at Google.
The new head of Yahoo! is, since June this year, part of the executive board of Wal-Mart, the multinational retailer, third largest company in the world according to the Fortune Global 500 list in 2012. Marrisa has invested in many startups, such as uBeam, Brit Media, Square, Minted, Airtime and One Kings Lane.
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