Marissa Mayer

• Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo!, USA

BSc in Symbolic Systems and MSc (Hons) in Computer Science, Stanford University. Formerly, with: UBS research laboratory, Zurich; SRI International, Menlo Park, California. 1999-2012, with Google: firm's first female engineer; user interface and Web server teams; led product management efforts on search products. Holder of patents in artificial intelligence and interface design; taught computer programming classes, Stanford. Recipient of awards and honours, including: Centennial Teaching Award and Forsythe Award, Stanford; named in Most Powerful Women list, Fortune magazine.