Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer (born on May 30, 1975) is Vice President and Service Location in Google local. He has become one of the public face of Google, provides a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.


Education and career

After graduating from Wausau West High School in 1993, Mayer was one of two delegates chosen by the Governor of Wisconsin to attend the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.
Mayer received his B.S. in a symbolic system, graduating with honors, and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence. In 2009, Illinois Institute of Technology awarded Mayer a doctorate honoris causa honor of his pioneering work in the field of road search.
Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of their first 20 employees, joined the company in June 1999. Prior to joining Google, Mayer worked at UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

User interface (UI) and design work

Mayer has a leading public engagement with Google Search and Gmail, and may be significantly responsible for the success of these UIs . Fortune magazine lists him as one of the 50 most influential women in the world and the youngest woman ever to make the list.