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Marissa Mayer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! who has an estimated net worth of $430 million in June 2016. According to Forbes, she is the 32nd most powerful woman as of 2013.

Marissa Ann Mayer graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.S. in symbolic systems and an M.S. in computer science where she specialized in artificial intelligence for both degrees. In 2009, she was granted an honoris causa doctorate degree by the Illinois Institute of Technology for her work in the field of research.

Mayer began her career at Google in 1999 as employee number 20 and the company's first female engineer. She has worked for thirteen years as an engineer, designer, product manager, and executive. She held key roles in Google Search, Google Images,Google News, Google Maps, Google Books, Google Product Search, Google Toolbar,iGoogle and Gmail. She was also responsible in overseeing the unadorned layout of the search engine homepage. She was also the Vice President of search products and user experience. In her last year with Google, she served as the Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location Services.

On July 16, 2012, Marissa A. Mayer was named the President and CEO of Yahoo! She is also a member of the board of directors of the company. Her first major step upon taking her position at Yahoo! was the major overhaul of Flickr, the photo-sharing service in the site. It was later followed by a homepage redesign as well as several acquisitions including the $1.1 billion deal for blogging platform Tumblr and another $30 million for story-shortener Summly.

In 2012 Mayer was ranked number 14 on the list of America's most powerful businesswomen by Fortune magazine.

She is married to American investor Zach Bogue , the couple have a son together; Macallister Bogue.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2012

Asset

Her apartment is decorated with Dale Chihuly whimsical glass artworks which sold at least $15 thousand per piece

$15,000

2012

Asset

Amount spent on 20 cashmere cardigans bought at $2700 apiece

$54,000

2012

Asset

The minimum value of Chanel Bag which Mayer carries

$4,000

2012

Asset

The value of Omega De Ville gold face watch which Mayer wears

$20,000

2011

Salary

Working for Google, Mayer receives a basic salary amounting to $1 million

$1,000,000