With the continued efforts of professional women, today's tech industry is not just a male-dominated field, but also a place where women hold up half the sky. In the U.S., the global center of the tech industry, there are many successful women who have broken the glass ceiling and made it to the top of their careers. Here they are, in no particular order.
1, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (Sheryl Sandberg)
48 years old, by Zuckerberg personally invited in 2008, from Google to join Facebook, is currently serving as Facebook COO and director. Over the past decade, Sandberg has been assisting the young and tender Zuckerberg gradually mature in the business world, and even refused the invitation of Uber CEO, its actual status in Facebook is equivalent to the "shadow CEO". Currently, his personal wealth is 1.6 billion dollars.
2, IBM CEO Luo RuiLan (Ginni Rometty)
60 years old, the century-old IBM history of the first female CEO. 1981 to join IBM, since 2012 as IBM chairman, president and CEO of the three positions. 2017 annual salary of more than 30 million U.S. dollars, Luo RuiLan is in charge of the American technology sector. living fossil company through another difficult transformation, plans to take the blue giant to the future of cloud and perceptual computing.
3. Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz (Safra Catz )
A 56-year-old Israeli immigrant who joined Oracle in 1999 and became co-CEO of the company in 2014 along with Mark Hud***, Catz is the main contributor to a series of wildly successful acquisitions by Oracle. leading the $103 billion hostile takeover of Renko (ReopleSoft). She is also one of the highest paid female executives in the U.S., with 2014 compensation totaling $53.2 million and 2017 compensation of $40.9 million. Katz is expected to be President Donald Trump's new national security adviser.
4, Google CFO Ruth Porat
60 years old, joined Google in 2015, currently serves as the CFO of Google and parent company Alphabet. Porat was previously the CFO and executive vice president of the U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley, which was recognized as "the best financial institution CFO in the United States. ". In order to hire Porat from Morgan Stanley, Google offered her an astronomical salary of $70 million (including signing bonus and stock). She is one of the highest paid CFOs in the US.
5. Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft
42 years old, joined Microsoft in 2002, and took the CFO position at Microsoft in 2013, helping new CEO Satya? Nadella lead Microsoft through a successful transformation, taking care of the tech giant's finances and acquisitions with $85 billion in annual revenue, pushing through a $26 billion deal to buy Linkedin. Hood's 2016 salary was more than $10 million.
6. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube
49, started her business in 1998 when she rented out her garage to two Stanford students. A few months later she decided to leave Intel and became Google's 18th employee. Watsky has been in charge of a series of core departments at Google, including marketing, advertising, sales, and products, and led Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube in 2006, and currently holds the position of CEO of YouTube, the world's largest video site. Watsky's personal wealth exceeds $400 million. Her sister was once the ex-wife of Google co-founder Brin.
7, "Queen of the Internet" Mary Meeker (Mary Meeker)
59 years old, the world's most influential analyst and investor in the Internet industry, once served as managing director of Morgan Stanley. Since the 1990s, Meeker has personally witnessed and actively promoted the rise of the U.S. Internet industry as an analyst at Morgan Stanley, and has been dubbed the "Queen of the Internet". Her annual "Internet Annual Report" is the most highly regarded analysis of the industry, and in 2010, she became a Managing Partner of KPCB, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.
8, Recode editor-in-chief Kara Swisher
9, Apple senior vice president Angela Ahrendts
57 years old, joined Apple in 2014 as Apple's senior vice president in charge of retail and online stores, strategy, real estate development. Before joining Apple, Ahrendts was the CEO of Burberry for eight years, and was the most successful businesswoman in the U.K. In 2014, Ahrendts received more than $70 million in compensation at Apple, far more than even Apple CEO Tim Cook, which shows that Apple has high hopes for her.
10, AMD President and CEO Lisa Su (Lisa Su)
48 years old, immigrants from Taiwan, the only Chinese woman in the list. 2014 as AMD President and CEO position, become the first female CEO of the semiconductor industry. as an outstanding representative of the female scientists, Su Zifeng is based on the identity of the technical experts in the male-dominated semiconductor. . She holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), where she served as CTO of Freescale Semiconductor and director of IBM's Semiconductor R&D Center. Su Zifeng took over the venerable semiconductor company during the downturn in AMD's performance and stock price, and led AMD through its lowest point through a series of product diversification initiatives to successfully develop revenue in the gaming console and embedded device space.
In a modern society where women are becoming more and more free and independent, women are gradually playing more and more important roles, and are also claiming half the sky for the man's world, so I hope that our women in China will continue to enrich themselves, and go out of China and into the world!