STEM Spotlight: Marissa Mayer

Meet computer scientist and tech entrepreneur Marissa Mayer. 

Marissa Mayer, (now former) Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo, USA; Young Global Leader concentrates for the session 'An insight, an idea with Marissa Mayer' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013.

Marissa Mayer has been involved with tech companies since the beginning of her career.  She joined Google in 1999 as employee number 20.  She started out writing code and advanced quickly to a managerial role within the company.  In 2005, she became Vice President of Search Products and User Experience.  She stayed with Google in an executive capacity until 2012 when she moved to Yahoo!.

Mayer was appointed president and CEO of Yahoo! in July of 2012.  As CEO of Yahoo!, she oversaw its acquisition of Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1 billion.  She later oversaw the selling of Yahoo! to Verizon in 2017 for $4.48 billion.

Since leaving Yahoo!, Mayer has started Lumi Labs, later rebranded as Sunshine, a company focused on artificial intelligence and consumer media.