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Marissa Mayer Bio/Profile Name: Name Marissa Ann Mayer Current Position: CEO and President of Yahoo!, Inc. - July 17, 2012-present Previous Positions at Google: VP, Local, Maps and Location Services - October 12, 2010 to July 16, 2012Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, November 2005-October 2010Director, Consumer Web Services, March 2003-November 2005Product Manager, July 2001-March 2003Software Engineer, June 1999-July 2001 Conceived: May 30, 1975Wausau, Wisconsin Training High SchoolWausau West High SchoolGraduated 1993UndergraduateStanford University, Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems spend significant time in Artificial IntelligenceGraduated with distinction June 1997GraduateMaster of Science in Computer Science work in Artificial IntelligenceGraduated June 1999Honorary DegreesHonrary Doctorate of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology - 2008 Family Background: Marissa Ann Mayer is the principal youngster and just girl of Michael and Margaret Mayer; the couple additionally have a child, Mason, brought into the world four years after his sister. Her dad was an ecological specialist who worked for water-treatment plants and her mom was a craftsmanship educator and housewife who enriched their Wausau home with Marimekko prints a Finnish organization known for its brilliantly shaded structures against a spotless white foundation. This structure stylish affected Mayers own decisions for Googles UI years after the fact. Youth and Early Influences: Mayer expresses her adolescence was awesome with a world-class artful dance school and numerous open doors directly around. The two guardians were devoted to supporting their childrens advantages. Her dad manufactured a terrace ice-arena for her more youthful sibling and her mom drove her to various exercises and exercises throughout the years. Among those she examined: ice skating, expressive dance, piano, weaving and cross line, cake finishing, Brownies, swimming, skiing and golf. Moving was one movement that clicked. By middle school, Mayer moved 35 hours per week and educated analysis and control, balance and certainty as indicated by her mom. Different impacts figure unmistakably in her youth. Her blue-green painted room included Techline furniture (building up at an early stage her inclination for clean lines and moderate structure), and one admission to girlhood was her Jackie Kennedy doll assortment. Laura Beckman Anecdote: Mayer as often as possible notices a significant life exercise she gained from Laura Beckman, the little girl of her piano instructor and a capable volleyball player. In a meeting with the Los Angeles Times, Mayer clarified: She was given the decision of joining the varsity team...[and] sit on the seat for the year, or JV, where she would begin each game. Laura stunned everybody and picked varsity. The following year she returned as a senior, made varsity again and was a starter. The remainder of the players who had been on JV were sidelined for their whole senior year. I asked Laura: How did you know to pick varsity? Laura let me know: I just knew whether I got the chance to practice and play nearby the best players consistently, it would improve me. What's more, that is actually what occurred. Secondary School: Mayer was leader of the Spanish Club, treasurer of the Key Club, and engaged with banter, Math Club, scholarly decathlon and Junior Achievement (where she sold fire starters.) She likewise played the piano, took keeping an eye on, and kept on moving; her long stretches of old style artful dance preparing helped her procure a spot on the accuracy move group. Her discussion group won the state title her senior year which helped her sharpen her ability of distinguishing issues and arrangements rapidly. She attributes her hard working attitude to an occupation as a general store clerk where she retained produce codes so as to look at things as quick as representatives whod been there 20 years. Her profoundly serious nature was clear in her meeting with the LA Times: The more numbers you could remember, the happier you are. In the event that you needed to stop to look into a cost in a book, it completely slaughtered your normal. While experienced clerks arrived at the midpoint of 40 things for each moment, Mayer stood her ground, averaging between 38-41 things for every moment. School and Graduate School: As a secondary school senior, Mayer was acknowledged to each of the ten universities she applied to, in the long run turning down Yale to go to Stanford. She entered school thinking shed be a pediatric neurosurgeon, yet a necessary PC course for pre-prescription understudies charmed and tested her. She chose to examine Symbolic Systems which remembered courses for subjective brain research, reasoning, etymology and software engineering. While at Stanford she moved in The Nutcracker artful dance, occupied with parliamentary discussion, chipped in at a childrens clinic, was associated with bringing software engineering instruction to schools in Bermuda and started showing her lesser year. She proceeded at Stanford for graduate school where companions review she pulled dusk 'til dawn affairs and regularly showed up in a similar garments she wore the day preceding. Early Career Path: Mayer served at the UBS explore lab in Zurich, Switzerland for nine months and at SRI International in Menlo Park before joining Google. Meeting with Google: Mayers beginning prologue to Google was positively foreboding. An alumni understudy in a significant distance relationship, she reviews pitifully eating a terrible bowl of pasta in my apartment without anyone else on a Friday night when an enlisting email showed up from a small web crawler organization. I recollect I’d let myself know, New messages from scouts - simply hit erase. Be that as it may, she didnt in light of the fact that shed caught wind of the organization from one of her teachers and her own alumni considers concentrated on similar regions the organization needed to investigate. Albeit shed previously got propositions for employment Oracle, Carnegie Mellon and McKinsey, she met with Google. Around then, Google just had seven workers and all the architects were male. Understanding that a superior sex parity would make for a more grounded organization, Google was enthusiastic for her to join the group however Mayer didnt quickly acknowledge. Over spring break, she examined the best decisions shed made in her life to perceive what they shared for all intents and purpose. Choices about where to attend a university, what to study, how to spend summers all appeared to rotate around a similar two concerns: One was, for each situation, I’d picked the situation where I got the opportunity to work with the most brilliant individuals I could find....And the other thing was I generally accomplished something that I was somewhat not prepared to do. In every one of those cases, I felt a little overpowered by the choice. I’d gotten myself in a little over my head. Vocation at Google: She acknowledged the offer and joined Google in June 1999 as he twentieth worker employed by Google and its first female architect. She proceeded to build up the vibe of Googles interface as a web search tool and supervise the turn of events, code-composing, and dispatch of Gmail, Google Maps, iGoogle, Google Chrome, Google Health, and Google News. She intensely impacted the companys greatest triumphs, for example, Google Earth, Books, Images and the sky is the limit from there, and she curated Google Doodle, the transforming of the recognizable landing page logo into plans and pictures praising uncommon occasions far and wide. Named a Vice President in 2005, Mayers latest job made them administer the companys mapping items, area administrations, Google Local, Street View and numerous different items. During her 13-year residency she drove the item the executives exertion for over 10 years during which Google Search developed from two or three hundred thousand to over a billion ventures for every day. A few licenses in man-made brainpower and interface configuration convey her name as innovator. She has been vocal in her help of shrewd item structure, extraordinary corporate collaboration and young lady power. Move to Yahoo She expected the reins at Yahoo as CEO on July 17, 2012, where she faces an extreme fight to reestablish resolve, certainty and benefit. Mayer is the companys third CEO in a year. Move to Yahoo: She expected the reins at Yahoo as CEO on July 17, 2012, where she faces an intense fight to reestablish assurance, certainty and productivity. Mayer is the companys third CEO in a year. Individual: Mayer dated current Google CEO Larry Page for a long time. She started seeing web financial specialist Zach Bogue in January 2008 and they wedded in December 2009; the couple are expecting an infant kid October 7, 2012. She possesses a $5 million extravagance penthouse on the Four Seasons inn in San Francisco and later bought a Palo Alto Craftsman home, yet not before taking a gander at in excess of 100 properties. An enthusiast of style and plan, she is one of Oscar de la Rentas top clients and once paid $60,000 at a foundation sale to eat with him. Mayer is a workmanship gatherer and appointed transcendent glass craftsman Dale Chihuly to make a 400-piece roof establishment highlighting blown glass ocean widely varied vegetation. She likewise claims unique craftsmanship by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Sol LeWitt. A cupcake fan, shes been known to consider cupcake cookbooks, make spreadsheets of fixings, and test forms of her own before composing new plans. I’ve consistently cherished preparing, she once told a questioner. I think it’s on the grounds that I’m logical. The best cooks are scientific experts. She portrays herself as actually truly dynamic and told the NYTimes that shes run the San Francisco half long distance race, the Portland Marathon, and plans on doing the Birkebeiner, North Americas longest crosscountry ski race. Shes additionally climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. She respects her capacity to envision inclines as one of her advantages: Back in around 2003, I accurately called cupcakes as a significant pattern. 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