Marissa Mayer
Marissa Ann Mayer is the current CEO of Yahoo! since July 2012. Previously, she was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for Google.
Mayer was ranked eighth on the list of America’s most powerful businesswomen of 2013 by Fortune magazine.
After her 1993 graduation from Wausau West High School, Mayer was selected by Tommy Thompson, then the Governor of Wisconsin, as one of the state’s two delegates to attend the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.
Mayer graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in symbolic systems and an M.S. in computer science. For both degrees, her specialization was in artificial intelligence.
Mayer joined Google in 1999 and was the company’s first female engineer, she worked for Google for 13 years. Throughout her years she had a variety of roles from engineer, designer, product manager and executive, she also held key roles in Google Search, Google Images, Google News, Google Maps, Google Books, Google Toolbar and iGoogle.
In February 2013, Mayer oversaw a major personnel policy change at Yahoo! that required all remote-working employees to convert to in-office roles. Having worked from home toward the end of her pregnancy, Mayer returned to work after giving birth to a boy, and had a nursery built next to her office suite—Mayer was consequently criticized for the telecommuting ban.
