Marissa Mayer Roundtable Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 AM
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Marissa Mayer
VP, Consumer Products
Google
As VP, Consumer Products, Marissa Mayer leads the product management and engineering efforts of Google’s local, mobile, and contextual discovery products including Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local Search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude, and more. At thirty-five years old, she is also the youngest member of Google’s executive operating committee. During her eleven years at Google, Mayer has led product management and design efforts for Google web search, images, news, books, products, toolbar, and iGoogle. She started at Google in 1999 as Google’s 20th employee and first woman engineer.
Mayer’s contributions and leadership have been recognized by numerous publications including the New York Times, Newsweek, and BusinessWeek. Fortune magazine has listed her for the past three years on their annual Most Powerful Women’s list, and she was the youngest ever to appear on the list. In 2010 Mayer was honored by the New York Women in Communications, Inc. with a Matrix Award. She also been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine. Mayer serves on the board of various non-profits, including the Smithsonian National Design Museum, the New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Mayer received her B.S. in symbolic systems and her M.S. in computer science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence.