Who is Carol Bartz?
I signed the Ada Lovelace Day pledge to write about a woman in technology on March 24th, so I have been keeping my eyes out for a worthy person to write about. Carol Bartz is in the headlines today for being the new CEO of Yahoo.
Who is Carol Bartz?
I must admit that I have never heard of her until today. It turns out that she is the executive chairman of the board at Autodesk. She was previously the chairman, president and CEO of Autodesk.
Prior to Autodesk, she worked at Sun, DEC and 3M.
She sits on the board of directors for Intel, Cisco, NetApp, and the Foundation for the National Medals for Science and Technology.
She was also appointed to President Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Carol also has a Computer Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, and 3 honorary doctorates.
Pretty impressive resume.
Techcrunch describes her as a 60-year-old veteran of the tech industry. 60? Seriously? Amazingly enough, she doesn't look a day over 40 in that photograph. What did she look like when she was younger?
Is this amazing woman worthy of an Ada Lovelace Day write-up? Judging from Yahoo's plummeting share price today, maybe not... but I still have 2 more months to decide.