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Executive Profile*

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Ms. Marissa A. Mayer has been the President and Chief Executive Officer at Yahoo! Inc. since July 17, 2012. Ms. Mayer served as Vice President of Location & Local Services of Google Inc. from October 12, 2010 to July 16, 2012. She also served as Vice President of Search Products & User Experience of Google Inc. She served as Vice President of Google Product Search. She served as a Vice President of Local and Maps at Google, where she oversaw product management, engineering, ... design and strategy for its suite of local and geographical products, including Google Maps, Google Earth, Zagat, Street View, and local search, for desktop and mobile. She also curated the Google Doodle program, celebrating special events on Google's homepage around the world. During her 13 Years at Google, she served numerous positions, including engineer, designer, product manager, and executive, and launched more than 100 well-known features and products. She played an instrumental role in Google search, leading the product management effort for more than 10 years, a period during which Google Search grew from a few hundred thousand to well over a billion searches per day. She led the development of some of Google's most successful services including image, book and product search, toolbar, and iGoogle, and defined such pivotal products as Google News and Gmail. Ms. Mayer is listed as an inventor on several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design. She joined Google as first female engineer in 1999 and played an important role in developing Google's culture. Her contributions included overseeing the look-and-feel of Google's iconic homepage and founding the Associate Product Manager program, which has hired over 300 of Google's future leaders and is considered the industry's ideal standard in transforming new computer science graduates into executive leaders. Prior to Google, she served at the UBS research lab in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. She has been a Director at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. since 2012 and Yahoo! Inc. since July 17, 2012. She serves on the Board of various non-profits, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet, and the New York City Ballet, Inc. She has been honored with the Matrix Award by the New York Women in Communications, as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and as "Woman of the Year" by Glamour magazine. Fortune has named Ms. Mayer one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, including when at age 33, she was the youngest woman ever included on the list. While at Stanford, she taught computer programming to more than 3000 students and received the Centennial Teaching and Forsythe Awards for Ms. Mayer contributions to undergraduate education. She is credited as an inventor on several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design. In 2008, the Illinois Institute of Technology awarded Ms. Mayer an honorary doctorate of engineering. She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a M.S. in Computer Science, where she specialized in Artificial Intelligence.

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