Google's Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo's Chief
Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next C.E.O. of
Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and
corporate America.
The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and was one of
the few public faces of the company, is considered a surprising coup for Yahoo,
which has struggled in recent years to attract top flight talent in its battle
with competitors like Google and Facebook.
Ms. Mayer, 37, had for years been responsible for the look and feel of Google’s
most popular products: the famously unadorned white search homepage, Gmail,
Google News and Google Images. More recently, Ms. Mayer, an engineer by training
whose first job at Google included computer programming, was put in charge of
the company’s location and local services, including Google Maps, overseeing
more than 1,000 product managers. She also sat on Google’s operating committee,
part of a small circle of senior executives who had the ear of Google’s
co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
With her appointment as the president and chief executive of Yahoo, Ms. Mayer
joins a short list of women in Silicon Valley to hold the top spot. The elite
club includes Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, and Virginia
Rometty, the head of IBM. Another senior women in Silicon Valley, Sheryl
Sandberg is Facebook’s chief operating officer.
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