Add the Women Back: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

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ADD THE WOMEN BACK Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

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ADD THE WOMEN BACK

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Alexa AndrzejewskiUX Designer and Entrepreneur

Alexa began her career at a UX consulting firm called

Lextant, then moved to San Francisco and joined

Adaptive Path. In 2009, she launched a company called

"Foodspotting", which developed an app where users

could enter their city and a type of food to find

restaurants that served it. Foodspotting was acquired by

OpenTable in 2013, and Alexa joined them as a lead UX

designer.

★ Alexa created Foodspotting after she was

unable to find okonomiyaki (a Japanese

savory pancake) in San Francisco.

Diane BryantExecutive

Diane is the EVP of Intel's Data Center Group, which is

Intel's fastest growing and most profitable division.

Before becoming EVP of the Data Center Group, she

worked there as a corporate VP and as the CIO. She also

holds four patents. She has served on the technical board

of the Anita Borg Institute, and is the executive sponsor

of Intel African American Employees.

★ Diane is the most senior female

executive at Intel.

Camille FournierCTO

Camille is the CTO of Rent the Runway. After graduating

from Carnegie Mellon University, she worked at

Microsoft for a year and a half before returning to school

to earn her MSCS from the University of

Wisconsin–Madison. She worked at Goldman Sachs for

over six years, where she started as an engineer and

ended as the VP of Technology. She left Goldman in 2011

to join Rent the Runway, becoming the CTO in 2014.

★ Camille enjoys working at Rent the

Runway because its small size lets her

influence its culture.

Jocelyn GoldfeinAngel Investor and Advisor

Jocelyn is an angel investor, adviser, and Stanford guest

lecturer. She began her career at a software company

called Trilogy, then joined VMware. She spent seven

years working there, and eventually became VMware's

VP of Engineering. She left VMware and joined

Facebook, where she was a Director of Engineering on

features including news feed and search.

★ Jocelyn has said that she values being a

woman in tech because she values the

informal networks and connections formed

by women in the field.

Sandra Liu HuangDirector of Product Management

Sandra is the Director of Product Management at Quora.

She began her career at Google as a product marketing

manager for Adwords, then moved to work on Google

Checkout. She moved to Facebook as a PM on the

Instant Personalization project. She joined Quora as their

first PM, and is now the director of that group.

★ While at Facebook, Sandra worked closely

with Mark Zuckerberg to create the

company's 2011 plan.

Caitlin KalinowskiProduct Designer and Mechanical Engineer

Caitlin is the head of Product Design Engineering at

Oculus VR. She left college to join a hardware company

called OQO, then joined Apple as a tech lead. She went

back to school while working half-time at Apple to earn

her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. She

later joined Facebook, where she worked on the

Facebook Bluetooth Beacon. When Facebook acquired

Oculus, she joined the team as Head of Product Design.

★ Caitlin is on the board of wogrammer and

on the advisory board of Lesbians Who

Tech.

Jess LeeExecutive

Jess participated in Google's APM (associate project

management) program, then joined Google to work on

their shopping engine before becoming the PM for

Google Maps. Jess joined Polyvore in 2008. She started

out writing code, but then began to handle social media,

hiring, and office expansion. She was promoted to CEO

in 2012. Jess joined Sequoia Capital as an investing

partner in 2016.

★ Jess joined Sequoia Capital as an investing

partner at age 33, becoming the firm's first

female partner and one of their youngest

partners.

Paula LongEngineer and Entrepreneur

Paula is the CEO and Co-founder of DataGravity. She

attended college at Westfield State University, then went

to work at Allaire Corporation. After leaving Allaire, she

co-founded a storage provider company called

EqualLogic, which was later acquired by Dell. After

leaving Dell, she was the VP of Product Development at

Heartland Robotics.

★ Even though Paula sold her first company

to Dell for $1.4 billion, she advocates

aiming for an IPO instead of building a

company to sell.

Elissa MurphyVP of Engineering

Elissa is a VP of Engineering at Google. She began her

career in management at Symantec and Quarterdeck,

until joining Microsoft in 1997. She worked there for

thirteen years as an engineering manager, then joined

Yahoo! as the VP of Engineering in Hadoop and Cloud

Services in 2010. She became GoDaddy's CTO and EVP

of Platforms until leaving in 2016 to join Google as a VP

of Engineering.

★ Elissa holds over forty patents in the fields

of distributed systems, machine learning,

and security.

Richelle ParhamMarketer

Richelle is a marketer who serves on the Board of

Directors of LabCorp and the Scripps Network, as an

advisor for Girls Who Code, and as a member of the

Board of Trustees of Drexel University. She began her

career as a telemarketer at Citibank, then joined Digitas

where she was an SVP and a General Manager of their

Chicago office. She later joined Visa, where she oversaw

the company's global marketing services. She then

became the VP and CMO for eBay North America.

★ In 2014, Richelle was named by Forbes as

one of the 50 Most Influential CMOs in the

World.

Mina RadhakrishnanEntrepreneur and Product Manager

Mina began as a business analyst for Goldman Sachs,

then joined Google in their APM (associate project

management) program. She was one of the first product

managers at Modcloth, and the first product manager at

Uber. She's now an entrepreneur in residence at

Redpoint Ventures, and she mentors other companies.

★ She is one of the five inventors listed on

Uber's surge pricing verification patent.

Selina TobaccowalaPresident and CTO

Selina is a co-founder of Gixo and a board member of

Redfin. She worked at as VP of Engineering until the

company was acquired by Ticketmaster in 2001. She went

on to work as VP of Online Product and Technology at

Entertainment Publications (an IAC subsidiary) until

2003, and then transitioned to be a SVP of Product at

Ticketmaster's Europe division. She joined

SurveyMonkey in 2009 as VP of Product and

Engineering, and later became President and CTO.

★ Selina co-founded Evite while she was still

in college.

Lorraine TwohillCMO

Lorraine is the Head of Marketing at Google. She began

her career at Burns Philp in 1992, then joined

Dreamticket.com as the Head of Marketing. She later

joined Opodo in the same role. She joined Google in

2003, leading their marketing efforts in Europe, the

Middle East, and Africa, before becoming their Head of

Global Marketing in 2009.

★ Lorraine was Google's first truly global

marketer.

April UnderwoodVP of Product

April is the Vice President of Product at Slack, which she

joined in 2015 as the Head of Platform. She is also a part

of #Angels, an investment group made up of women who

currently or formerly worked at Twitter. Prior to Slack,

she worked at Intel, Deloitte, Travelocity, Google, and

Twitter. She was a Senior Partner Technology Manager at

Google until 2010, when she joined Twitter as a product

manager. She worked her way up to Director of Product

at Twitter before leaving to join Slack.

★ When she worked at Twitter, she was the

product manager for features including the

"tweet" and "follow" buttons.

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