Marissa Mayer

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Marissa Ann Mayer
Born	May 30, 1975 (1975-05-30) (age 33) Wausau, Wisconsin
Occupation	Vice President of Search Products & User Experience at Google

Marissa Ann Mayer (born on 30 May 1975) 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
• Kellogg Technology Conference, Kellogg School of Management, February 7, 2007, Keynote
• Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) International Conference, October 1, 2007, Keynote
• Google I/O 2008 Keynote: Imagination, Immediacy and Innovation... plus a little glimpse under the hood at Google

[edit] External links

• Executive bio on Google's site
• San Francisco Magazine, "The adventures of Marissa," February 27, 2008
• Marissa's profile on Google Orkut
• Video-Interview, Feb. 2007 (English, German intro, German subtitles)
• Business Week Online, "Inside Google's New-Product Process," June 30, 2006
• Stanford University, "Marissa Mayer talking about '9 Notions of Innovation'," June 30, 2006
• Business Week Online, "Managing Google's Idea Factory," October 3, 2005
• Good Experience interview, October 15, 2002
• A picture of Marissa Mayer by Bart Nagel Photography
• Cyberposium 12: Marissa Mayer Keynote Video
• Podcast interview with Marissa Mayer
• Innovation, Sharing and Dreams, Marissa speaking at Stanford