Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Rise and shine of the young!



Marissa Mayer – CEO, Yahoo – Age 37



Year
Age
Position
1975
0
Born
1993
18
Graduated from Wausau West High School
1999
24
Joined Google
2012
37
President & CEO, Yahoo


  • Active on twitter at https://twitter.com/marissamayer
  • Joined Yahoo when she was 5 months pregnant and took two weeks of maternity leave.
  • Banned Work From Home policy.
  • Extended maternity leave to 16 weeks of paid leave from 8 weeks of paid leave.
  • M&A
    • Bought online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 Billion owned by David Karp (26 now)
    • Bought London startup Summly for $30 million owned by a teenage entrepreneur - Nick D'Aloisio (17 now). S’Aloisio and Summly team to join Yahoo.



Mittu Chandilya – Head, Air Asia India – Age 33
  • MBA from INSEAD, a part time model, non aviation background.
  • Last - Head of services practice for Asia-Pacific at executive search firm Egon Zehnder.


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