Marissa Mayer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: | May 30, 1975 Wausau, Wisconsin |
---|---|
Occupation: | Vice President of Search Products & User Experience at Google |
Marissa Ann Mayer is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at American search engine company Google. She acts as a gatekeeper for their product release process, determining when or whether a particular Google product is ready to be released to users. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.
She received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of their first 20 employees, joining the company in early 1999.
[edit] Conference appearances
- Cyberposium 12, Harvard Business School, November 11, 2006, Keynote
[edit] External links
- Business Week Online, "Inside Google's New-Product Process," June 30, 2006
- Business Week Online, "Managing Google's Idea Factory," October 3, 2005
- Good Experience interview, October 15, 2002
- Executive bio on Google's site
- Marissa's profile on Google Orkut
- A picture of Marissa Mayer by Bart Nagel Photography
- A video of Marissa Mayer presenting at Stanford University
- Marissa Mayer: hologram or android?