Famous Women

Here’s to the women who have made a mark in technology and continue to make advancements that will change the world as we know it today. Most women who are entrepreneurs are so busy that when it comes to tax time they are so bombarded with different tasks, such as writing office business trips to conferences and writing off all office expenses, that they only apply for an extension right before the tax extension deadline. However, no matter how strapped for time they are, the taxes must get done or they will have to face penalties. Once they take care of everything, they can focus on their job. These women are the entrepreneurs who bring their visions to life and the high level executives who develop new methods of doing business.

These women are part of a unique group of inventors who improve and enhance products of the past, creating transformations to a new way of life. Who are these women and what is it that they bring to the business of technology?

Let’s start with the entrepreneurial women of ecommerce who are involved with the internet explosion and have changed the way we shop and make decisions of how and what to buy. They created social media to bring people together as if they were sitting right next to each other. They created online publishing, provided the abilities of editing photos and methods of locating information in a matter of seconds.

Ecommerce Entrepreneurs:

BabyCenter – Tina Sharkey, President

Blurb – Eileen Gittins, CEO

Consorte Media – Alicia Morga, CEO

Flickr – Caterina Fake, cofounder

Meebo – Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry, cofounders

MyShape – Louise Wannier, CEO

Ning – Gina Bianchini, cofounder and CEO

Pixel Qi – Mary Lou Jepsen, founder and CEO

Spike Source – Kim Polese, CEO

SlideShare – Rashmi Sinha, cofounder and CEO

Six Apart – Mena Trott, cofounder and President

The executive women who lead the change of technology today share these visions. They simplify and make available tools for the vast public through web development and communications using blogs sites. These are the doors open the world for other entrepreneurs, who may not have taken that first step without access to these tools.

Changing Technology Executives:

eBay – Meg Whitman past CEO

Facebook – Sheryl Sandberg, COO

Google – Marissa Mayer, VP

Intel – Genevieve Bell, Director – User Experience Group

IBM – Sandy Carter, VP – Service Oriented Architecture & Web Sphere Marketing

HP – Ann Livermore EVP Technology Solutions Group

HP – Carly Fiorina past chairman of the board

Microsoft – Julie Larson-Green, Corporate VP

Oracle – Safra Catz, President

Yahoo – Susan Decker, President

Women in academics have added to the industry by developing organizations dedicated to bringing in non-technical women as part of the design processes. They have encouraged more women to pursue careers in science.

Activists have assisted in government accelerations for change in women owned businesses. We see the result today with the activation of our governments Women Owned Small Business Program, which is monitored through the Department of Small Business.

And behind the past discoveries and important advancements of yesterday’s technology were women who were the inventors, the educators and the scientists of those developments. They paved the path of today’s technology by setting up the ground work based on principles, which are still being used today. As mathematicians and computer scientists, they developed the first computer languages, the first computer compliers and the first digital computer which dates back to 1940.