Google Product Marketing Manager turned Entrepreneur Brittany Bohnet
![Katie Stanton, VP of International Business Strategy, Twitter
Why She Matters
When Stanton moved to Washington, D.C. after working in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade, it was difficult for her to break the habits she learned while working at tech giants Yahoo and Google. “One of the organizational things you do at Google is create your OKRs, which stand for objectives and key results,” Stanton said. “I’ve been doing them since I entered government, even though no one else does them.”(1)
Luckily, Stanton had a list of OKRs ready when she moved to the State Department in January 2010. “During my first meeting with [State Chief of Staff]Cheryl Mills, I went in and talked to her about my OKRs,” Stanton said. “As we were talking,Secretary Clinton walked in and it was the first time ever in my life I was glad I did my OKRs.”
While working on the new business development team at Google, Stanton had an impressive list of goals. She helped launch Google Finance, Open Social and Google Moderator. (1)
In 2010, Stanton brought those creative talents to the State Department, where she works as the special adviser in the Office of Innovation. There she is tasked with identifying how to use technology to advance the department’s diplomatic and development goals. “We want to use modern day tools to solve modern day problems,” Stanton said.(1)
But Stanton left the Obama administration not long after joining it to return to her tech roots. She joined Twitter’s international business group, based in San Francisco, in summer 2010. The announcement was made via Twitter.(2)
In Her Own Words
“It’s possible to solve these problems using technology, but also using the power of our communities. When we see people just working together, using simple but powerful technology, we can save the world.” (1)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj78e9w0ir1qif67vo1_500.jpg)
Katie Stanton, VP of International Business Strategy, Twitter
Why She Matters
When Stanton moved to Washington, D.C. after working in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade, it was difficult for her to break the habits she learned while working at tech giants Yahoo and Google. “One of the organizational things you do at Google is create your OKRs, which stand for objectives and key results,” Stanton said. “I’ve been doing them since I entered government, even though no one else does them.”(1) Luckily, Stanton had a list of OKRs ready when she moved to the State Department in January 2010. “During my first meeting with [State Chief of Staff]Cheryl Mills, I went in and talked to her about my OKRs,” Stanton said. “As we were talking,Secretary Clinton walked in and it was the first time ever in my life I was glad I did my OKRs.” While working on the new business development team at Google, Stanton had an impressive list of goals. She helped launch Google Finance, Open Social and Google Moderator. (1) In 2010, Stanton brought those creative talents to the State Department, where she works as the special adviser in the Office of Innovation. There she is tasked with identifying how to use technology to advance the department’s diplomatic and development goals. “We want to use modern day tools to solve modern day problems,” Stanton said.(1) But Stanton left the Obama administration not long after joining it to return to her tech roots. She joined Twitter’s international business group, based in San Francisco, in summer 2010. The announcement was made via Twitter.(2)In Her Own Words
“It’s possible to solve these problems using technology, but also using the power of our communities. When we see people just working together, using simple but powerful technology, we can save the world.” (1)
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and Forbes’ 66th most powerful woman in the world.
Heather Harde is the CEO of TechCrunch. She spent the last ten years working withinNews Corporation. She held a variety of corporate development, strategy and operating roles both in Los Angeles and New York. Most recently, she was part of the founding team at Fox Interactive Media and their SVP Mergers & Acquisitions. Her team spent over $1.3 billion on eight acquisitions and two equity deals during her tenure. Their acquisitions spanned pre-launch start-ups all the way through public-company and pre-IPO buyouts.
Prior to Fox Interactive Media, she held a variety of posts at News America Marketing, TVGuide and ASkyB. Before News Corporation, she also worked for Viacom at Showtime Networks. The common theme in her media life has been working on assignments that focus on the impact of technology on media. This theme continues, of course, with TechCrunch. She started out doing investment banking for a small, private bank Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. She had the opportunity to work both in New York and Tokyo on corporate advisory and private-equity transactions. Heather is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Harvard Business School.
Twitter’s Director of Media Partnerships Chloe Sladden
Shona L. Brown
Senior Vice President, Business Operations
Shona L. Brown joined Google in 2003 and took on the responsibility of building both the People Operations and Business Operations groups. Prior to joining Google she was a partner at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting company, where her focus was working with consumer technology companies on growth, innovation and transformation. Shona is the author of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, which introduced a new strategic model for competing in volatile markets. She is a director of the following non-profit organizations: San Francisco Jazz Organization, The Bridgespan Group and the Exploratorium. She also serves on the board of PepsiCo.
Shona has a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from Carleton University in Canada, an M.A. in economics and philosophy from Oxford University (which she attended as a Rhodes scholar), and a Ph.D. and postdoctoral degree from Stanford University’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.
April 2011 Wired cover.
Tina Fey’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
“Apparently I’m only the third woman ever to receive this award and I’m honored to be up there with Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg. But I do hope that women are achieving at a rate these days that we can stop counting what number they are at things. Yes, I was the first female head writer at Saturday Night Live. And yes, I was only the second woman ever to be pregnant while on the show. And now tonight I’m the third female recipient of this prize. I would love to be the fourth woman to do something, but I just can’t see myself married to Lorne.”
Newsweek’s Dan Lyons interviews Mayer for our end-of-year Interview issue:
Why are so few women working in the technology industry?
Well, it’s something that I care a lot…
