Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg ( born August 28, 1969 in Washington, DC) is an American businesswoman and since 2008 Managing Director (COO ) of Facebook Inc. Previously, she was vice president of global online sales at Google and chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury. Sandberg is one of the richest women in the world and has positioned itself as the representative of a new American women's movement. In March 2013 appeared to her book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. At the same time launched Sandberg their address women ideas platform " Lean in Circles".

Sandberg studied at Harvard University ( Bachelor of Arts / Science ) and Harvard Business School (Master of Business Administration). In her thesis, she sat down with violence in families and social inequalities between spouses apart. At Harvard, she met the well-known economist and deregulator of financial markets, Lawrence Summers, who put them in his research team from the World Bank. Sandberg dealt here with the topic India and diseases such as AIDS.

In 2012 she made ​​in the course of the IPO of Facebook for broader attention and should, in the opinion of the media holding the business part on the side of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Your salary in 2011 was $ 30 million for the year. Sandberg's fortune is currently estimated ( January 2014 ) to over 1 Miliarde U.S. dollars, consisting largely of Facebook shares and stock options.

According to a ranking by Forbes Magazine Sheryl Sandberg finished 10th in the most powerful women in the world.

Since 2004 she is with David Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey married, with whom she has two children.

Publications

• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Knopf, 2013, ISBN 0-385-34994-7.