Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer was born on May 30, 1975. Marissa is an American business executive and the president and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. Previously, she was a long-time executive and key spokesperson for Google. At Google, Mayer was an early employee who eventually became vice president of search products and user experience; from 2010–2012, Mayer was Vice President of Location and Local Services.

After graduating from Wausau West High School in 1993, Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle selected Mayer as one of the state's two delegates to attend the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.

Mayer graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. with honors in symbolic systems and an M.S. in Computer Science. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence. In 2009, the Illinois Institute of Technology granted Mayer an honoris causa doctorate degree in recognition of her work in the field of search.

Mayer joined Google in 1999 as employee number 20 and was the first female hired. Prior to joining Google, Mayer worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

Mayer was responsible for the layout of some of Google’s most used products, including the unadorned white search homepage, Google Search, Gmail, Google News and Google Images.

Fortune magazine listed her as one of the 50 most powerful women in the world and she was the youngest woman ever to make the list.

Mayer was named one of Glamour Magazine's 2009 Women of the Year.

On July 16, 2012, Mayer was named President and CEO of Yahoo!.