Sergey Brin
The battle for tech dominance continues. Last month the Google Guys took the fight to Microsoft with the launch of Web browser Chrome; attempting to steal some of Internet Explorer's 75% market share. Brin emigrated from Russia. Professor's son met partner Larry Page in computer science Ph.D. program at Stanford. Duo dropped out in 1998 to start Google from friend's garage. Initial financing came from angel investors K. Ram Shriram, Andy von Bechtolsheim, professor David Cheriton; then superstar venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital pitched in $25 million. Longtime tech exec Eric Schmidt brought on 2001; took company public 2004. Stock down 40% since alltime highs last November. Sales: $16.6 billion. Net margins: 25%. Brin focuses on Google's technology sector.
Anne Wojcicki
Ms. Wojcicki is a biotechnology analyst and a co-founder of 23andME, a genetic-testing company in Mountain View, Calif.
Born July 28, 1973. is an American biotech analyst, biologist, and the co-founder of 23andMe.
Wojcicki is the daughter of educator Esther Wojcicki and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish American physics professor at Stanford University. She attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, where she was one of three students voted Most Likely to Succeed in the 1991 yearbook. She went on to graduate from Yale University with a B.S. in biology in 1996.
After graduating, Wojcicki worked 10 years overseeing healthcare investments, focusing on biotechnology companies. In 2006, she left the investing world to co-found 23andMe with Linda Avey.
Wojcicki married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in May 2007. They have a son, Benji, born in December 2008.
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki is vice president of product management responsible for managing Google's monetization and measurement platform products including AdWords, AdSense and Google Analytics.
Susan has a long history with Google. She has been responsible for AdSense since 2002, and has managed both AdSense and AdWords since 2006. Prior to that, she led the initial development of several consumer products including Google Books, Google Images and Google Video.
Before joining Google, Susan worked at Intel and was a management consultant at Bain and R.B. Webber & Company. She graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds an MS from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA