It's a very big previlege to introduce to the 10 most powerful woman in Technology world. Knowingfully well that the Tech world is fast growing with lot of males throwing lot of challenges at the woman technology wise.
Despite of all the challenges, some of the most prestigious and best-remunerated roles are still held by females.
As Global Chief Information Officer, Jane Moran oversees
business systems for
Thomson
Reuters, which sells information to scientific, legal, financial, business
and media markets and employs 55,000 in more than 100 countries. Moran took up
the role in London in 2008, when Thomson Corporation merged with Reuters, and
now manages a centralized taskforce of 1,200.
She is a roundtable member
of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of
Business and sits on the CIO Council for salesforce.com, Workday, and Oracle. In
an interview with the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, Moran
attributes her decision to enter technology to time spent in her math professor
father's lab at Ohio State University.
"Within minutes of meeting Jane,
you get a strong sense of why she is one of the world's leading CIOs. Despite a
ceaseless schedule, she's both an active participant in WITI and in Thomson
Reuters Women's Network, among other organizations. She's a leading example of
utilizing a career in technology to create greater business opportunities while
supporting the advancement of other women along the way," says WITI EVP, Michele
Weisblatt.
Cher Wang
As co-founder and chairwoman of HTC Corporation, Taiwan's
leading tech business, Cher Wang has overseen the development of smartphone and
mobile technology, partnering with Google and Microsoft on Windows-compatible
smartphones and PDAs primarily sold in the U.S. and Europe. With her husband,
Wang is also chairwoman and cofounder of VIA Technologies, which supplies PC
processor platforms. Wang represents Taiwan on the APEC Business Advisory
Council and HTC is an industry partner of the World Economic Forum.
A
devout Christian, she was ranked the 276th richest person in the world, with an
estimated personal wealth of $4 billion, by Forbes Magazine, which describes her
as "the most powerful woman in wireless."
"Her impetus for starting HTC
was to develop hardware products that foster easier, more efficient
communication. She's led HTC in approaching development from the perspective of
creating a holistic experience with a focus on personal choice, observing and
listening to create products that cater to a perceived consumer desire," says
Leighton.
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin is a professor of computer sciences at UCLA,
and director of its multidisciplinary $40 million
Center for Embedded
Networked Sensing, which pioneers new technologies for collecting
information from the physical world, and processing and communicating that
information in useful ways. The idea is that, embedded with networked
microprocessors, environments (buildings, buoys, ecosystems) could report and
perhaps even correct in real-time their own faults.
She is a fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the U.S. National Academy
of Engineers and was inducted to the
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in
2008.
"Deborah and Judy (her sister -- see previous box) hail from a
strong family of successful technologists. Both their parents -- their mother
Thelma, a
WITI Hall of Fame winner as well -- set these remarkable women
on an inevitable path to success, which was accomplished through encouragement
and their own merits in their fields of study," says Carolyn Leighton.
Judy Estrin
A serial entrepreneur, Judy Estrin studied computer science
at UCLA and electrical engineering at Stanford alongside Vint Cerf, who is
recognized as one of the fathers of the internet, in the 1970s. At Zilog
Corporation, she led a team that developed one of the first commercial LAN
systems, and has co-founded three companies manufacturing networking devices and
software. From 1998 to 2000, she served as CTO for Cisco Systems and has been a
board member for Disney, FedEx, Rockwell and Sun Microsystems.
In 2008,
feeling that the United States had become focused on short-term gains at the
expense of encouraging creative opportunities, she published "
Closing the Innovation
Gap," which looks at how to sustain innovation on an organizational and
national level.
She is currently CEO of
JLabs, a consulting and
advocacy "work lab."
"Judy and Deborah (her sister -- see next box) hail
from a strong family of successful technologists. Both their parents -- their
mother Thelma, a
WITI Hall of Fame winner as well -- set these remarkable women
on an inevitable path to success, which was accomplished through encouragement
and their own merits in their fields of study," says Carolyn Leighton.
Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer was one of Google's first 20 employees,
joining in 1999, as the company's first female engineer. She has been VP of
Local and Maps for Google since 2010, leading the search engine's product
development efforts. Prior to that, Mayer worked on Google's search
products.
At 36, she is one of the world's youngest leading tech
executives. She serves on the boards of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
the San Francisco Ballet, the New York City Ballet, and the Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and was recently nominated for the board
of Walmart.
"When Marissa presented her keynote at the Women Powering
Technology Summit in 2011, the strongest message to resonate with the audience
was her insistence on gender neutrality in technology by advocating gender-free
geekdom. Marissa shares this message globally in her work at Google and through
her presence in the media," says Carolyn Leighton.
Maxine Fassberg
Maxine Fassberg manages manufacturing operations at Intel
Israel, the world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductor chips and the
country's largest private employer. As well as overseeing fabrication plants in
Kiryat Gat and Jerusalem, and a design center in Haifa, Fassberg handles
relations with the Israeli government, which has kicked in $210 million (740
million shekels) of funding, according to Haaretz.
Fassberg received a
master's degree in Applied Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in
1978. She joined Intel in 1983 as an engineer, becoming general manager in 2007.
She holds a patent for a way of forming a protective polyimide layer over a
semiconductor.
"Maxine is a
WITI Hall of Fame inductee of the 2009 class, who returned in
2010 expressly to support the newest class of honorees. Maxine is a powerful
center of influence, a great supporter of her fellow Hall of Fame colleagues,
and a mentor for emerging tech leaders, no matter their gender," says Carolyn
Leighton.
Sandy Carter
Sandy Carter is Vice President, Social Business Evangelism
at IBM, where she is responsible for directing the company's social business
initiatives, and working with clients to develop best practices. (Social
business is the application of social media tools and techniques to a company's
internal and external processes, in order to connect clients, partners, citizens
and employees). Since joining the company in 1989, Carter has also been a VP of
IBM's Service Oriented Architecture, which achieved 70% market share under her
management.
She is fluent in eight programming languages; has travelled
to more than 60 countries; has authored three books about business and social
media, and is one of IBM's top
bloggers and tweeters, winning
MarCom awards for
her communities.
"Sandy Carter uniquely combines extraordinary expertise
in the worlds of business and technology, traveling the world to evangelize the
use of social media to help strengthen communication and revenue in both
business-to-business and business-to-consumer strategy. She is a passionate,
committed advocate and supporter of young women and girls achieving their
greatest possible success," says founder and chairwoman of Women in Technology
International (WITI), Carolyn Leighton.
Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook's Chief Operating Officer,
overseeing the social media mammoth's business operations -- which includes
sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and
communications. Ted.com describes her role as "monetizing the world's largest
social networking site while keeping its users happy and
engaged."
Sandberg came to Facebook in 2008 from Google, where she built
and managed the search engine's online sales. She has also served as an
economist for the World Bank and Chief of Staff at the U.S. Treasury Department.
According to company records, in 2011 she was Facebook's highest paid employee
with a net salary of over $30 million.
"Sheryl's advocacy for women to
'take a seat at the table' while growing Facebook to one of the most significant
valuations to date, is a perfect example of leading by example. At the 2011 WITI
Summit, Facebook represented through their Director of Engineering, Jocelyn
Goldfein, the many women engineers driving some of Facebook's most widely used
applications. It's important that the tech community at large also recognize the
women driving innovation in tech," says Michele Weisblatt.
Ursula Burns
Starting as an intern in 1980, Ursula Burns is now chair of
Xerox, a $23 billion global
business with almost 140,000 employees. She became CEO in 2009 and company chair
the following year, at the tail end of a decade that saw the company
restructuring to meet changing needs, moving from photocopying into digital
technologies. One of her first moves was the $6.4 billion dollar acquisition of
Affiliated Computer Services -- the company's largest purchase.
Burns is
also a board director of American Express, works with community initiatives
including the National Academy Foundation, MIT, and the U.S. Olympic Committee,
and is a founding board director of
Change the Equation, an organisation that seeks to improve the
U.S.'s science, tech, engineering and math education. She is the first
African-American woman to lead a major U.S. corporation, and the first female
CEO to succeed another woman, according to Bloomberg.
"Ursula's story is
inspirational and epitomizes the true American success story. Her dedication to
mentoring, encouragement of girls and women, and her commitment to advocacy are
remarkable. Ursula often credits her mother's influence and belief that
education, confidence and hard work can change everything. This is a message
that bears weight in every tech community the world over," said Carolyn
Leighton.
Susie Wee
Susie Wee is VP and CTEO (Chief Technology and Experience
Officer) of Collaboration and Communication at networking giant Cisco Systems --
a role that she says reflects her passion for combining user experience and
technology. From Palo Alto, California, Wee manages a team of 90 user experience
designers, researchers and technologists, working on collaboration
products.
Wee came to Cisco in April last year after 15 years at Hewlett
Packard, where she oversaw cloud strategies for personal computing products, and
founded HP's Experience Software Business which employs 100 people in five
countries.
"Like her Cisco colleague
Padma Warrior, Susie's
exemplary leadership and outright enthusiasm for her work encourages the
brightest ideas from the brightest talent in tech. Susie's energy is strong,
fair and infectious. She effectively communicates the 'fun' in technology, while
teaching us to think differently about the practical applications for various
types of technology. She is also a committed advocate for her fellow women in
technology," says Leighton.
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