Women In Tech

MobileAppDaily’s “Women in Tech” is a testament to the hardships faced and dedication displayed by the female pioneers in the industry. It is a signature of their incredible spirit and acute expertise in the domain of IT. Each of these women has not only taken their company to the next level but has been key in terms of innovation. So, here is a list that celebrates their passion and recognizes them for their endeavors in IT this year.

Lisu Su is the name behind AMD, the titan of processors. She is currently serving the organization as the CEO. If we talk about her educational background, well, she earned her doctorate from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And, her early career started at Texas Instruments. However, she played important roles in companies like Intel before joining AMD in 2012 as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Global Business Units. Here she got prompted to CEO and Chair of the Board and resurged AMD with products like Ryzen and EPYC. For the kind of excellence shown in her career, she was awarded IEEE Fellow in 2019, Time 100 Most Influential People (2020), Global Semiconductor Alliance's Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award (2018), etc.

1. Lisa Su

Chair and CEO, AMD

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Mira Murati is an important name in the field of artificial intelligence. As of now, she is serving as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at OpenAI where she played an important role in the development of GPT-3 and DALL-E 2. She is also well-known as a frequent speaker and thought leader on AI-related topics. However, her career also highlights her extensive work experience in companies like Tesla and Leap Motions. And for this level of work, she has earned multiple esteemed awards like Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2023, Fortune’s 40 Under 40 in 2022, etc.

2. Mira Murati

CTO, OpenAI

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Melanie Perkins has made a name by being the Co-Founder and CEO of the popular graphic design platform “Canva.” Before that, she co-founded Fusion Books, which gave her valuable experience. However, later on, she pivoted to form Canva along with Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams. In fact, under her leadership, Canva has had global success with millions of adopters. It is because of these efforts that she has received multiple awards, such as the 30 Under 30 in Forbes, Young Global Leader, etc.

3. Melanie Perkins

Co-Founder and CEO, Canva

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Annu Bharadwaj is a tech name to be reckoned with. She did her education at the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. Her career started at Microsoft, where she worked for more than a decade and held various leadership positions, including the Director of Product Management for Office 365. However, she joined Atlassian in 2018 as the vice president of product, where she oversaw key product lines, including servers, data centers, and enterprise cloud. In both companies, she played a major role in the development of products prominent in the IT industry. And, with her work, she finally became the President at Atlassian in February 2023.

4. Annu Bharadwaj

President, Atlassian

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Aicha Evans began her career in engineering management roles at multiple companies like Rockwell Semiconductor, Conexant, and Skyworks Solutions. However, she later joined Intel in the year 2006 and worked there till 2018. There, she led wireless engineering projects that gave her credibility to become the Chief Strategy Officer, playing a crucial role in shaping Intel’s mobile strategy. But in the year 2018, she was appointed to the position of CEO of Zoox, and in 2020, she was the one who facilitated Amazon's acquisition of a whopping $1.3 billion. Evans has been a powerful inspiration for many women and has received awards like Black Enterprise’s Most Powerful Women in Technology (2018), Stevie Awards for Women in Business, Executive of the Year (2019), etc.

5. Aicha Evans

CEO, ZOOX

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Clara Shih remained a top student during her computer science course at Stanford University. Later on, she earned an M.S. in computer science from Stanford and an M.S. in internet studies from Oxford University as a U.S. Marshall Scholar. Talking about her professional career, she started her career at Google. After that, she joined Salesforce, but in 2009, she left it to co-found her own digital software company, “Hearsay Systems,” where she still serves as the CEO and chairman. And, if we talk about her Salesforce AI journey which started in the year 2023 as the CEO, she oversaw multiple artificial intelligence initiatives in the company. This is the reason she has been awarded Fortune's 40 Under 40, Fast Company's "Most Influential People in Technology," etc.

6. Clara Shih

CEO, Salesforce AI

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Elizabeth Stone’s career has been a testament to her diverse background and accomplishments. In fact, her background comprises a Bachelor of Science from MIT, a Ph.D from Stanford University, a Trader at Merrill Lynch, and an economist at the Analysis Group. However, she transitioned to technology and started working at Nuna as Chief Operating Officer, and later joined Lyft as Vice President of Science. However, in October 2023, Stone was appointed as Chief Technology Officer at Netflix. Here, she worked to make technological advancements like exploring new technologies, improving streaming infrastructure, and enhancing the user experience.

7. Elizabeth Stone

Chief Technology Officer, Netflix

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Fidelma Russo has taken up several technology leadership roles for more than 30 years. Her career encompasses working in companies like VMware, Iron Mountain, EMC, Sun Microsystems, etc., with key roles like Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Service business unit, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, etc. In September 2021, Russo joined HPE as the CTO of the company and led the creation, development, and delivery of HPE’s GreenLake Platform. Through her exceptional expertise, she has been able to create a huge impact for the companies she was working for. In fact, she has received several awards, such as CRN’s Top 100 Executive Awards, Top 25 IT Innovators in 2023 and 2024, 100 Influential Women in Tech, etc.

8. Fidelma Russo

CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Jae Sook Evans is currently the Global CIO and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Platforms services at Oracle. In her two decades of experience, Evans has worked in multiple industries like e-commerce, enterprise cloud, online gaming, retail, and telecommunications. In fact, before she joined Oracle in 2020, she was the Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure Engineering and Operations at Walmart. At Oracle, she has been working with over 160,000 employees and developers worldwide and leading in multi-cloud services and commercial systems such as billing, subscription management, etc. Her contributions have earned her awards, like Technology Magazine’s Top 100 Women in Technology in 2023, and her commitment to D&I has enabled a more inclusive workplace culture.

9. Jae Sook Evans

Global CIO, Oracle

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Yamini Ranga currently serves as the CEO of HubSpot, a company that has worked to help millions of companies transform the way they market, sell, and serve customers. Her experience entails more than 25 years of work where she played critical roles in companies like Dropbox, Workday, SAP, and Appirio. In each of her roles, she has had an acute focus on delivering customer-centric growth and scaling high-performance teams. For her empathy-driven leadership, she has been awarded the Most Influential Women in Business award by the San Francisco Business Times.

10. Yamini Rangan

CEO, Hubspot

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Reshma Saujani has played key roles as a leader, advocate, and changemaker in redefining the landscape of gender equality to redefine opportunities for women. This can also be attributed to her founding the organization “Girls Who Code.” This nonprofit organization gave power to more than 185,000 young women by addressing the gender gap within technology through facilitating education and advocacy. In fact, she was the first woman of Indian American origin to run for U.S. Congress in 2010 and boldly challenge multiple barriers in politics. Besides that, she has been behind several best-sellers like Brave, Not Perfect, and Pay-Up. Her current venture is Moms First, which she founded and led as the CEO. For her contributions, she has been awarded the Power of Radiance Awards 2024, Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, etc.

11. Reshma Saujani

Founder, Girls Who Code

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Archie Deskus has had an extensive career driving business growth and innovation in technology-enabled businesses for which she worked. Serving as a board member for Cognizant, she has taken up similar roles in organizations like East West Bank and DataStax. In fact, she also has experience in international business development, operations, public governance, and regulated industries. If we talk about her career in leadership roles like CTO and CIO then some of the organizations include PayPal, Intel, and Hewlett Packard as of now. Archie has been an important figure in the tech domain and is well-known for her strategic vision, digital acumen, and commitment to empowering organizations.

12. Archie Deskus

Board Director, Cognizant

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Susan Wojcicki has left a legacy for her by being a pioneer technology executive and CEO of YouTube till the last. This year, she lost her life to lung cancer. However, she has stayed an inspiration for all the women in the world till her last breath. In fact, her career has been instrumental in shaping Google’s advertising platforms, which include AdWords and AdSense, and she has also been behind Google’s acquisition of YouTube in 2006. Under her leadership, the company achieved more than 2 billion monthly users and went through multiple innovative products like YouTube Premium and Shorts, making her an esteemed part of the list.

13. Susan Wojcicki

CEO, YouTube

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Sheryl Sandberg is known in the tech community as an American technology executive, philanthropist, and author. As of now, she is a full-time philanthropist with two other ongoing ventures that she founded and co-founded. Those are Lean In and Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners. Besides that she has played the role of Chief Operating Officer at Meta between the years 2008 and 2022, helping the company to gain global prominence. She also has an academically rich background,i.e., a Harvard alumnus, an economics graduate of Summa Cum Laude level, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. And, for her prowess, she has earned multiple awards like Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women in Business,” Forbes's “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women,” etc.

14. Sheryl Sandberg

Founder, Lean In

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Fei-Fei Li is recognized as a pioneering computer scientist. She is the Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and has been the co-director of the Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute. Renowned for founding ImageNet, she has been a catalyst for breakthroughs like computer vision and AI. Her career spans academia and industry work, including her tenure as Google Cloud’s Chief Scientist of AI/ML. She has even co-founded AI4ALL to champion diversity in the field of AI and has received several prestigious awards, including the Intel Lifetime Innovation Award.

15. Fei Fei Li

Co-Founder & CEO

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