10 Most Influential Women In Technology
Marissa Mayer
At the age of 37, Marissa Mayer, CEO of
Yahoo!, became the
youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Mayer was also named to Fortune
magazine's annual list of America's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business
in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. She earlier worked with Google and was
responsible Google's famous, unadorned search homepage. Note: The
US-based Time magazine revealed these 'The Ten Most Influential Women in
Technology'.
Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook and is
the first woman on the company’s board of directors at Facebook. Sheryl
earlier served as the Vice President of Global Online Sales and
Operations at Google.
She was named in Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time.
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a former journalist and Wall Street technology
analyst who is a leading angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist,
and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare,
government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space.
Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher is an American technology columnist for the Wall
Street Journal and co-executive editor of All Things Digital, a leading
tech news site and conference organizer.
Mary Meeker
Mary Meeker is a former Wall Street securities analyst primarily
associated with the Internet. Meeker became known as "Queen of the
Net" after being dubbed so by Barron's Magazine in 1998.
Meeker and Chris DePuy at Morgan Stanley, published "The Internet
Report," a landmark Morgan Stanley industry report which became known
as "the bible" for investors in the dot com boom and went into popular
circulation - as a book, and on the web.
Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman joined eBay on March 1998, when it had 30 employees
and revenues of approximately $4 million. During her time as CEO, the
company grew to approximately 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual
revenue by 2008.
She now serves as the CEO of tech giant Hewlett-Packard, is one
of the most experienced and respected corporate executives in the world —
male or female.
Safra A. Catz
Safra A. Catz has served as president of database giant Oracle
Corporation since January 2004. In 2009 she was ranked by Fortune as
the 12th most powerful woman in business.
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki, has been called "the most important Googler
you've never heard of". She serves as Senior Vice President of
Advertising at Google and oversaw the company's acquisitions of YouTube
and DoubleClick, acquired for $1.65 and $3.1 billion, respectively. She
is also is the brain behind crowd-pleaser Google Doodles.
Theresia Gouw Ranzetta
Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, a partner at Silicon Valley heavyweight
Accel Partners, is a rising venture capital superstar who has cemented a
reputation as one of technology’s top financiers.
Virginia Rometty
Virginia Rometty is the first woman to head IBM. Prior to
becoming president and CEO in January 2012 she held the position of
Senior Vice President and Group Executive for Sales, Marketing, and
Strategy at IBM.
