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A celebration of women Six months ago, BizClik Media Group decided to mark International Women’s Day 2021 with a series of special supplements celebrating the Top 100 Women in Technology. At a time when women are facing increasing challenges in the workplace due to Covid-19 but finally making headway on gender parity, I am delighted to say that the hardest part of this process was cutting down our nominations to just the very best 100. All of the women featured here had earned their place as well as the respect of their peers, through hard work, talent and determination. They have battled discrimination their entire lives, yet still rise to the top of their professions. Today, we celebrate these women and every woman, and we will continue to do that as a business – 365 days a year.
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Women in Technology Nominated by you and selected by us, we celebrate the female leaders that are having the biggest impact on technology globally
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he unprecedented challenges of the past year have, in part, been mitigated by the incredible array of technologies powering digital transformation around the globe. While there is still much ground to cover, increasingly the people behind those solutions are better reflecting society at large. That’s why we’ve assembled this list of the top 100 women in technology, encompassing the startup founders, researchers and top executives who are making the biggest impact in the industry.
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Senior VP, Marketplace Segments
Co-founder and CEO
Chief Customer Officer of the Americas
Traci Mercer Sabre
Suvi Uski
SomeBuddy
Aylin Basom Infor
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VP UX
Co-founder
Sonja Radenkovic
Angie Ma
TomTom
Faculty AI
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Worldwide Marketing, HR and Investor Relations
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Ruth Cotter AMD
Rhonda Vetere Herbalife Nutrition
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Chief Strategic Financial Officer
VP, GM
Global CISO and Chief Privacy Officer
Lisa Wardlaw
Farmers Insurance
Sandra Lopez Intel Sports
Rebecca Wynn [24]7.ai
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COO and Chief Transformation Officer
CEO
Director SAP Enterprise Technology & Performance
Jess Evans
Arizona State University
Sarah Wilkinson NHS Digital
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Vice President Strategy and Vendor Acquisition
Founder, CEO
Cheryl Neal Tech Data
Tugce Bulut Streetbees
Lisa Zinn Deloitte
“Just think of what the world would look like if everyone was given the opportunity to explore their entrepreneurial potential” technologymagazine.com
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“One of the things that really remains important is making sure that you hire the right people”
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CIO
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Mitze Amoroso ArchCare
Deneen DeFiore United Airlines
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Vice President Consulting Services - State and Local
EVP Chief Transformation and Digital Officer
VP, Chief Information Security Officer
Novant Health
Ralph Lauren
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Aleta Jeffress CGI
Sherry Ryan
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Angela Yochem
Arungalai Anbarasu Waygate Technologies
Lauren Heyndrickx
Lisa Davis CIO
Blue Shield of California
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Vice President, Service Sales Transformation
Co-founder
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Lisa Rimsa HPE
Deva Senevirathne Sonrai Analytics
Judith Faulkner Epic
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CEO, co-founder
CTO, co-founder
VP EMEA
Mandy Price Kanarys
Saumya Bhatnagar Involve
Nicky Tozer Oracle NetSuite
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Global CIO
Chief Data Officer
Senior Vice President & CIO
Sigalit Shavit Cyberark
Laura Titas Nationwide
Rani Johnson TIBCO
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Nancy McConeghy SVP, Information Technology, CIO
Sierra Nevada Corp
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MD Of Global Security
Michelle McKenna-Doyle NFL
Lisa O'Connor Accenture
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CEO
VP, Head of Cross Mobile Engineering
CISO
Peggy Johnson Magic Leap
Nicole Berg SAP
Jaya Baloo Avast
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VP Product
Founder and CEO
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Kriti Sharma GFK
Daphne Koller Insitro
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Head of Technology,
Chief Product Officer,
Vice President
Christine Stoffel-Moffet NASCAR
Julia Hartz CEO
Eventbrite
Climate Corporation
“When I go home to Detroit, there are people who don't know they can become the CEO of a tech company”
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Ranjeeta Singh
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Adi Tatarko CEO
Houzz
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Founder, Chairman and CEO
Founding Member
Senior Tech Columnist
Renee J. James Ampere
Stacy Brown-Philpot SB Opportunity Fund
Joanna Stern
The Wall Street Journal
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VP of Global Operations
COO, Co-founder
Radhika Kakkar Snap
As co-founder of website security company Cloudflare, Zatlyn has played an important part in protecting critical websites from hacks and DDoS attempts.
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Global Head of Small and Medium Business
Chief Strategy Officer and AI Officer
Melinda Roylett
Before her current role, Melinda Roylett has consistently helped pilot the European arms of major disruptors including Uber, Square and PayPal.
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Having started working at Snapchat’s parent company in 2015, Radhika Kakkar has played a part in the company’s continued success with its youn user base.
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Michelle Zatlyn
Nicole Eagan Darktrace
Nicole Eagan is an AI leader, heading the cybersecurity AI company’s strategic direction, having previously fulfilled the role of CEO.
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Chair
Head of Product
Roshni Nadar HCL
Roshni Nadar is the first woman to lead an IT company in India, heading up the IT services firm founded by her father Shiv Nadar.
Julia Harrison Government Digital Service Julia Harrison has brought extensive private technology experience at eBay, Morgan Stanley and Microsoft to her work digitally transforming the UK government.
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CEO, co-founder
Founder, CEO
Rana el Kaliouby Affectiva
Having studied computer science at Cambridge and MIT, Rana el Kaliouby founded Affectiva with the mission to recognise emotion via artificial intelligence.
Anne Boden Starling Bank Boden founded one of the UK’s leading challenger banks in 2014, drawing on extensive industry experience to help the company raise over $350mn to date.
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CISO
CIO
Kirsten Davies The Estée Lauder Companies Kirsten Davies’ past roles have seen her working on four continents, and she is now applying her extensive information security experience to the cosmetics giant.
“ Kirsten Davies’ past roles have seen her working on four continents”
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Wendy Pfeiffer Nutanix With past positions including a role at Yahoo and CIO of GoPro, Wendy Pfeiffer currently serves on the board of Sada and Qualys.
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Chief Technology Officer, Worldwide Defense & Intelligence
Project Director
Running Microsoft’s defence technology offering, Maxwell previously spent sixteen years at Raytheon. She also serves on the board of The Startup Ladies.
Shivon Zilis has plied her machine intelligence expertise at AI industry greats, previously as project director at Tesla and currently as an OpenAI board member.
Kate Maxwell Microsoft
Shivon Zilis Neuralink
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Global CDO
CDTO
Chief Social Impact Officer
Jacqueline Teo HGC Global Communications Jacqueline Teo has extensive industry experience, holding roles at HPE, Foxtel and Telstra before becoming HGC’s Chief Digital Officer.
Sheila Jordan Honeywell
Erin Reilly Twilio
Experienced technology executive Sheila Jordan was CIO at organisations including Symantec and Cisco before joining Honeywell last year.
With a job title straying outside this list’s usual fare, Erin Reilly is responsible for ensuring that the cloud communication firm takes its social impact into account.
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Senior Vice President & GM, Customer Experience Solutions APJ
Global CSO
Having been with SAP for over 20 years, Renders this year assumed her current role heading up the company’s customer experience solutions across Asia Pacific.
Lakshmi Hanspal is responsible for cloud content management firm Box’s security endeavours. Hanspal previously fulfilled similar positions at PayPal and SAP Ariba.
Peggy Renders SAP
Lakshmi Hanspal Box
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CISO
Founder and managing partner
Nasrin Rezai Verizon Nasrin Rezai joined telecommunications giant Verizon in 2020, bringing with her cybersecurity expertise honed at firms including Cisco and GE Capital.
Anna Patterson
Gradient Ventures
Gradient Ventures is an AIfocused venture fund under Google’s umbrella, which Patterson founded in 2017. She was previously Google’s Vice President of Engineering.
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Senior Vice President Intuit Platform
Chief Algorithms and Analytics Officer
Raji Arasu Intuit Inc
An experienced technology executive, Raji Arasu’s previous roles have included stints at ecommerce giant eBay and ticket marketplace StubHub.
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“ Kamelia Aryafar’s role sees her applying the benefits of artificial intelligence to retail businesses”
Kamelia Aryafar Google
Kamelia Aryafar’s role at Google sees her applying the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning to retail businesses.
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CIO
VP and GM of Webex Strategy and Calling, Collaborative Team
Sylvie Veilleux Dropbox Dropbox’s first CIO, Sylvie Veilleux brings to the role extensive experience at companies including Apple, Mozilla and Salesforce.
Lorrissa Horton Cisco
Responsible for the strategy behind Cisco’s collaboration portfolio, Horton has extensive industry experience including 11 years at Microsoft.
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Global Head of Partner Engineering, Prime Video
Vice President, Brand Protection
Natasha Sayce-Zelem
“Sayce-Zelem is the founder of [...] a non-profit encouraging women into the sector”
Amazon
Aside from her role at Amazon, Sayce-Zelem is the founder of Empowering Women with Tech, a nonprofit encouraging women into the sector.
Mary Beth Westmoreland Amazon
Mary Beth Westmoreland joined Amazon in 2020 from cloud computing firm Blackbaud, where she held roles including SVP Software Development and CTO.
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Suzi McBride
Chief Operating Officer
Iridium
Having completed three degrees covering aerospace and engineering, McBride would be the smartest bet for the first flying car prototype. However, the Chief Operating Office at Iridium (worldwide communications) is remarkably down to earth, claiming she “fell into” her role in the satellite industry and credits school teachers for encouraging her passions. A strong supporter of women in STEM, she told a Women in Space event how she grew her family alongside establishing her career and that the two are possible together.
Advisory Board Member
Red Badger
Prior to her current role, Green worked as a General Manager for Watson Internet of Things, Commerce and Education and as CEO of the Thomas Cook Group. Green’s interests range from answering difficult business problems to forging inclusion in areas where it is needed. In 2019, Green was named as one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Internationally. She was awarded an OBE in 2010 and for three years in a row Green made it into FT/Yahoo HERoes Champions of Women in Business list ‘Top 10’ - and Green’s only moving up.
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Nayaki Nayyar
Executive Vice President , Chief Product Officer
Ivanti
Raised in Texas, Nayyer is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program, which develops leadership and personal growth. Alongside this, she holds a B.E. in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in computer science, which has led Nayyer to a successful career in cybersecurity. After working at Shell and Valero, she landed more prominent roles with Ivanti, a US-based software company. As the Executive Vice President, Nayyer drives positive change for customers and is investigating the potential of artificial intelligence.
EVP Global Solutions and Partners
Qlik
Qlik turns data into active intelligence, with Ramaswamy’s skills and her 22 years of experience at the forefront. She creates data analytic tools which are human-centric and highly focused, whilst leading a team comprised of value engineers, consultants and of course, sales. The National Diversity Council has also recognised Ramaswamy as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech and she has taken on the leadership role with Qlik’s Harvard Customer Advisory Group, for data and artificial intelligence executives.
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Pearl Noble-Mallock Head of Product and Cyber Security
BAE Systems
A proud Dyslexic, NobleMallock is a talented public speaker, as well as a cyber security explorer. The University of Liverpool graduate has worked her way up the BAE Systems ladder from System Engineer to Head of Product and Cyber Security. BAE, a national security company, entrusted Noble-Mallock in the top role to manage recruitment, analyse security risks, implement security methodologies and conduct mentoring. She is dedicated to working as a part of a team to evolve against developing technologies and threats.
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Sepideh Nasiri CEO and Founder
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Women Of MENA In Technology As a dedicated campaigner for women, Nasiri founded Women of Middle East and North Africa in Technology (MENA) in 2015, to bring women in the industry together. Nasiri dabbled in journalism but has spent 16 years working in the Technology Industry. A startup advisor and entrepreneur, she enjoys mentoring women who have entered tech and is also an advisor for TechWomen, which also supports women in STEM. The self-declared diversity advocate was celebrated by Diversity Journal in 2014 as one of the “Women Worth Watching”.
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“ Nasiri founded Women of Middle East and North Africa in Technology (MENA) in 2015, to bring women in the industry together”
Foundational Data Services General Manager
NetApp
Stevenson believes in the power of diversity, that technology has the capability to revolutionise everything it touches and that avoiding change is neither wise nor possible. Thus it was inevitable that she would join NetApp’s Data Services as the General Manager. A Cornell University grad, Stevenson previously worked at Intel and Lenovo, where she gathered years of experience and no desire to slow down her climb to the top. The General Manager hopes to unionise the best of cloud and data technology for her customers.
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Chief Development Officer
Director
Barb Morgan FIS
Based in Florida, FIS is leading the way in payment, banking and investment, with Morgan as the Chief Development Officer. The Fortune 100 senior technology executive had previously worked in Capital One and Boeing, before accepting the position at FIS. A distinguished leader, Morgan commands a team of 10,000 people, serving to simplify problems in an international group of clients, in the planet’s biggest FinTech company. Besides this, Morgan has volunteered as a Financial Literacy Coach in Chicago and Oklahoma.
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Fei-Fei Li
Professor, Co-Director of Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute
Stanford University
Fei-Fei Li is responsible for realising that while algorithms were the engine of machine learning, creating colossal datasets with which to train them was the fuel they ran on. She distilled the ImageNet project, a labelled image dataset that supercharged the arrival of visual ML and ushered in the age of deep learning. ImageNet’s dataset has been accused of having embedded bias, and has made changes to its training data to correct it. But Li is no crazy cyborg. She has said; “We want the creators of this technology to represent our values and represent our shared humanity.”
Daniela Rus CSAIL (MIT) MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is more than just the only academic research department whose website doesn’t look like it was built in 1998. It’s a global leader in making AI work… for people. Rus’s own research is all about getting robots to talk to each other and reconfigure themselves without human intervention. In her own words, AI “is nothing more than a tool. I believe that we can do extraordinarily positive things with AI,” she says, “but it is not a given that that will happen.”
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Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Joy Buolamwini Algorithmic Justice League As a grad student at MIT, Joy Buolamwini pioneered research into AI bias. In 2020, she was part of efforts to discredit facial recognition systems that had wildly different error rates corresponding to skin colour. Amazon, Microsoft and IBM suspended their facial recognition programmes as a result. She said, “When I started talking about this, in 2016, it was such a foreign concept. Today, I can’t go online without seeing some news article or story about a biased AI system. People are just now waking up to the fact that there is a problem.”
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Denise Coates Founder
Bet365
In the 1990s, when the internet was only accessible via an oven— sized desktop, Coates correctly guessed that the internet would have a huge impact on daily life, from jobs to recreational activities. After working in betting shops, Coates decided to move online and despite difficulty finding investors, she secured a loan and created bet365.com in 2000. The gamble paid off; Coates is now the UK’s highest paid boss and the biggest tax contributor, but she chooses to keep a low profile. In 2012, Coates was awarded a CBE.
Adobe
It was thirty years between Stoddard’s BA and her MA, but she made them count, working in strategic planning, budgeting and more. Stoddard understood early on that understanding IT was massively important to businesses and has worked to bring the two together. Entering her 5th year at Adobe, she is now looking at the advantages of bringing Artificial Intelligence into the business, with a plan to improve efficiency and customer experience. Despite security vulnerabilities, she enjoys working from home in California.
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Mariah Scott President
Skyward Scott lives in Portland, where she is proud to be facilitating “a pipeline of local female leaders”. She holds a passion for developing both brands and products, in addition to encouraging global teams from across North America to Europe and Asia. However Scott’s primary focus is to use technology to solve problems and is currently looking at the enormous potential of drones. A certified drone pilot, she is also working on her private pilot’s license. As President of Skyward, flying cars could be next on her agenda.
“ Mariah Scott’s primary focus is to use technology to solve problems and is currently looking at the enormous potential of drones”
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Cindy Rose President
Microsoft Western Europe Mother-of-four Rose is a graduate of Columbia University and New York Law School. After working for Vodaphone, Virgin Media and The Walt Disney Company, she broke through the glass ceiling to become the CEO of Microsoft UK in 2016 and later advanced to the role of Microsoft’s Western European President. Despite her meteoric rise, she remains committed to supporting startups and giving school talks to keep the promise of Microsoft’s mission: “To empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.”
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Kimberly Bryant Founder
Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant is an electrical engineer, but that alone is not enough to get her into a prime spot in this list. For that, we look to her tireless campaign to provide technology and programming education to girls of colour via her Black Girls Code foundation. Bryant got the idea when her daughter wanted to learn programming. In her search for courses, she found the same lack of diversity that had made her feel isolated during her own studies. She set an ambitious target to teach a million black girls to code by 2040. Black Girls Code now has seven chapters in the US and one in South Africa.
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Ellen Pao CEO
Project Include Ellen Pao is one of the foremost voices in the tech industry arguing for inclusive workforces. One of her most prominent prior roles was as CEO of social news platform Reddit, her tenure ending in controversy over the banning of communities deemed to be fostering hate. She has since been critical of the site, describing it as ‘amplifying hate, racism and violence'. Currently, she is an investor and CEO of non-profit Project Include which strives for data-driven diversity recommendations.
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“Knausenberger heads the technology department at a pivotal time [...] with the inclusion of the newly minted United States Space Force”
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Gwynne Shotwell President, COO
SpaceX
Brain surgery and rocket science are traditionally lauded as among the most complex occupations, so it’s fitting that Gwynne Shotwell, the daughter of a brain surgeon should end up running a space transportation company. Shotwell had originally planned to work in the automotive industry. Following a stint in Chrysler’s management training programme, she transferred to military space research and development, then went to build rockets at Microcosm. In 2002, she joined SpaceX as the eleventh employee. As well as being the company’s president and COO, she is an advocate for diversity and the inclusion of women in business and technology.
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Lauren Knausenberger CIO
United States Air Force In her role, Lauren Knausenberger’s remit is likely one of the largest on this list, with 20,000 cyber operations and support personnel coming under her purview. She heads the technology department at a pivotal time for the organisation, with the inclusion of the newly minted United States Space Force adding to existing responsibility for the United States Air Force. She rose to her current position last year, having previously served as Chief Transformation Officer, and possesses a Bachelor of Science degree in decision and information sciences. technologymagazine.com
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Jacky Wright CDO
Microsoft Jacky Wright is so sought after for her technological expertise that when HMRC, the British tax office, needed help with its digital transformation (one of the largest in Europe), they took her on secondment from Microsoft to get the job done. Now back at Microsoft, Wright is a key figure in Microsoft leadership and regularly speaks about leadership and digital transformation, as well as ethics in technology, and diversity. Her board positions include City, University of London, the Institute for Coding and YearUp, where she promotes access to opportunities and education for all.
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Dr. Lisa Su
President, CEO
AMD
Dr. Lisa Su has been President and CEO of AMD since 2014, previously serving as SVP and GM, Global Business Units. The Semiconductor company is a leader in central and graphical processing units, competing with Intel and Nvidia respectively, making her a key player in consumer electronics. Before joining the company, she occupied a number of roles in the semiconductor industry, including at Texas Instruments, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor. She is an alumnus of MIT, having studied for a PhD in Electrical Engineering.
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“At 31, the Salt Lake City-born and Southern Methodist Universityeducated Herd is also one of the youngest entrants on our list”
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Safra A Catz CEO
Oracle Enterprise technology firm Oracle Corporation is particularly known for its database management systems. Founded in 1977, it is 82nd on the Fortune 500. CEO Safra Catz attained the role of CEO in 2014, having been on the company’s board of directors since 2001 and having served as both CFO and president. A billionaire, she is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a career history in banking and finance. Her career highlights include the acquisition, for Oracle, of PeopleSoft in a $10.3 billion takeover in 2005. Away from her day job, she lectures at Stanford Graduate School of Business and is involved in politics.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd Founder and CEO
Bumble
Whitney Wolfe Herd is the leader behind social and dating app Bumble. She previously co-founded and served as VP Marketing for fellow dating app Tinder, leaving the company in 2014 and founding Bumble in the same year. The female-focused dating app’s USP is that only women can make first contact, an approach that has led to significant venture backing and a Nasdaq listing earlier this year. At 31, the Salt Lake City-born and Southern Methodist Universityeducated Herd is also one of the youngest entrants on our list.
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“While studying at Harvard, she set up Women in Economics and Government, laying out the blueprint for her
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Sheryl Sandberg COO
Sheryl Sandberg is best known for her day job at Facebook and previous work at Google but plum jobs at top Silicon Valley firms are not the only things propelling her to the pointy end of this list. Sandberg is a huge advocate for breaking down the barriers to women working in business, government and technology. Her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, was the launchpad for the Lean In Foundation, which Sandberg founded to offer “women the ongoing inspiration and support to help them achieve their goals”. The drive to empower women is not something Sandberg came to after establishing her career. While studying
at Harvard, she set up Women in Economics and Government, laying out the blueprint for her later work. That work would include stints at McKinsey & Company, government roles and Google, where she presided over an advertising and sales team that grew from four people to 4,000. She has held her current position at Facebook since 2008, where she oversees business operations including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and communications. Sandberg is reportedly worth $1.8 billion. She also sits on the board, and was the first woman to do so.
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Susan Wojcicki CEO
YouTube Taking our women in tech crown is Susan Wojcicki. Currently the CEO of video sharing social media platform YouTube, she has been one of the driving forces behind parent company Google’s activities since she officially joined the company in 1999, helping guide it to becoming the dominant force it is today. She plays a further part in Google lore, however, with her Garage in Menlo Park, California having been the company’s first ever headquarters after its founding in 1998. Wojcicki was integral to the development of the company’s advertising business as SVP of Adwords and AdSense, successfully monetising
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Google’s groundbreaking search engine capabilities. In her joint role as head of Google’s nascent video service, she was quick to identify the potential of its chief competitor YouTube and duly headed the acquisition of the smaller company. Ascending to the role of YouTube CEO in 2014, she has led the company to milestones including users watching over a billion hours per day. Unusually compared to her peers, Wojcicki possesses a BA in history and literature from Harvard University, later studying for an MS in economics and an MBA at different institutions after cementing her interest in technology.
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“Wojcicki has been one of the driving forces behind parent company Google’s activities since she officially joined the company in 1999, helping guide it to becoming the dominant force it is today”
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