Founder and CEO Dazzle
Former Yahoo CEO (2012-2017). Google employee #20, first female engineer at Google. Led Yahoo through massive data breaches, NSA surveillance controversy, and sale to Verizon. Known for work-from-home ban.
During the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election, Mayer donated $200,000 to oppose the effort to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. Politico described this as 'deepening the governor's substantial Silicon Valley support.'
In 2015, Mayer and Yahoo General Counsel approved a classified government order under FISA Section 702 to build custom software scanning millions of Yahoo Mail accounts in real-time for the NSA/FBI. Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos resigned in June 2015 when he discovered the program, initially believing it was a hack. Mayer stated publicly that revealing such programs would be 'treason' and executives 'could go to prison.'