Beyond the two company co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, perhaps no other executive better symbolized the new breed of brilliant young technologist in charge at Google than Marissa Mayer.
(Credit: Dan Farber / CNET) By any measure, Mayer, appointed this afternoon as Yahoo's new chief executive, boasts one of Silicon Valley's stellar resumes.
The first female engineer and 20th employee overall hired by the then-upstart search company, Mayer rapidly distinguished herself at Google, which she joined after graduating from Stanford University with a Masters degree in Computer Science, specializing in artificial intelligence.
Both as the executive in charge of Search Products and User Experience, and later as VP of Local, Maps and Localization Services, Mayer was put in charge of fast-growing businesses that proved instrumental to Google's exponential growth in the last decade.
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