Marissa Ann Mayer

CEO of Yahoo and early Google executive, Mayer served as Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google, acting as a gatekeeper for their product release process, determining when or whether a particular Google product was ready to be released to users. She became one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.

Mayer subsequently served as head of Yahoo.