Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer was hired as Google's first female engineer in 1999. She is currently the Vice President of Search Products & User Experience and is a familiar face to the public due to her many interviews. Her main role with Google includes determining if a new product is ready for release to the public.

"I'll start with a couple of core philosophies. We believe that we should be launching more products than what will ultimately become phenomenally popular. The way you find really successful new innovation is to release five things and hope that one or two of them really take off. I think by that metric we've been doing really, really well. We should be able to put products out there and, without a lot of promotion, a good product will grow. We like to put products out there early, see what users say about them, what additional features they'd like to see, and then build those out." —Marissa Mayer BusinessWeek: Inside Google's New-Product Process

• Current Projects:
  • VP of Search Product and User Experience, Google
• Past Projects:
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University
  • B.S. in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University

• Msnbc: "Leading the Way: Marissa Mayer" (2007)
• Business Week: "Turning Limitations into Innovation" (2006)
• Official Google Blog: Posts by Marissa Mayer
  • "Universal search: The best answer is still the best answer" (2007)
  • "World in Motion" (2007)
  • "Googlebombing 'failure'" (2005)