Marissa Mayer

Marissa 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 35 years old, she is also the youngest member of Google’s executive operating committee. During her 11 years at Google, Marissa 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.

Marissa’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 3 years on their annual Most Powerful Women’s list, and she was the youngest ever to appear on the list.  In 2010 Marissa 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.  Marissa 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.

Marissa 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.

 

Speakers News

23/03/11

Google goes Gaga

Yesterday, two great DLD Friends met when Lady Gaga visited the Googleplex in Mountain View to get interviewed by Marissa Mayer for the Musicians@Google series.  Gaga who is known as one of the most searched persons in the world and who always

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Lukas Kubina 15/10/10

Marissa Mayer Takes New Role in Location

Marissa Mayer, Google Inc.'s vice president of search products, is taking a new role overseeing location and local services - markets that are strategically crucial to boost the companies sales, according to Bloomberg. In 2005, she was the first

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Desiree Martin 19/11/09

Marissa Mayer is "Glamour" Woman of the Year 2009

The fashion magazine Glamour ranked our long term DLD friend and speaker Marissa Mayer "Women of the Year 2009". At DLD09 she has already taken part in our panels "Women Power" as well as "Cloud Computing". In 2005, she was the first

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Jonas Grashey 14/10/08

Marissa Mayer's power

Marissa Mayer made it. Again. The Vice President of Google, one of the most succesful women in digital business now got a grant of honours by the American magazine Fortune. Marissa Mayer, who was the first female engineer at Google, is therewith the

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Christiane Blana 15/07/08

Yelp Goes to Google: Marissa Mayer

Yelp's Connie C and Nish N met up with Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, at the Googleplex, which they discovered is truly one of the happiest places in Silicon Valley. Connie C: Tell us something about

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