This document profiles 10 technology leaders through short biographies. It describes their current roles and past experience. Some of the individuals profiled include Jonathan Ive of Apple, Jeeyeun Wang of Samsung, Andrew Jassy of Amazon Web Services, and Alex Roetter of Twitter. They work or have worked at major tech companies and hold senior leadership positions in areas such as design, engineering, and finance.

1. The Quiet Faces

2. Sir Jonathan Ive (48)
 Currently: Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc.
 Started: from a London based startup design agency called Tangerine,
• He is the Leading designer of many Apple products included
the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod Touch,
iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, and iOS 7.
• Steve Jobs used to call him, “spiritual partner at Apple”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh8IEYtmcw

3. Jeeyeun Wang-
Currently : Creative Director at Samsung Electronics Mobile
Division.
• She was the major face behind Galaxy S Smartphone design.
• She worked for 22 hours a day continually for 3 months away
from her newly born baby while working on the design of
Galaxy S Smartphone.
• She was the part of the design controversy between Samsung
and Apple.

4. Peng Jiang(42)
 Currently: Mr. Peng Jiang also known as Leo, has been President of YunOS since
September 2013.
 He is also the Deputy Chief Technology Officer at Alibaba Group Holding Limited since
September 2013.
 He joined Alibaba in 2000.
• He is responsible for overseeing various technology teams as well as
the data business group.
• He oversaw Alibaba's shared-services business from January 2013 to
September 2013 and served as President of Taobao Marketplace from
July 2012 to January 2013.

5. David Ebersman (46)
• Currently : the co-founder and ceo of Lyra Health.
• Started: Equity Research Analyst, Biotechnology at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. in
1991
• He served as the Chief Financial Officer at Facebook from 2009 to
2015.
• He came to Facebook’s attention via Genentech’s Art Levinson, who
recommended Ebersman to the company, despite his lack of
Internet experience.
• He replaced Gideon Yu, who left Facebook in a controversial
departure.
• He was the man behind Facebook IPO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_JtBpiylg

6. Stephanie Hannon (40)
• Currently: CTO of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
• Started: as a software engineer at Granite System.
• She worked previously as a product manager on Google Maps
and Google Wave from 2004 to 2011.
• She also worked as product manager at Facebook from 2012 to
2013.
• She is the first woman to hold the title of chief technology officer
on a major presidential campaign.
• Her appointment was described as "helping open the door for
other women in an industry that has long been a boys club”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8zfNaTSiXs

7. Andrew R. Jassy (47)
• Currently : Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services.
• Previously, he worked as Director at Coupa Software before joining
Amazon.
• He served as Vice President of Web Services at Amazon.com Inc.
from January 2005 to April 2006.
• He served as Vice President of Associates and Web Services of
Amazon.com Inc. from September 2003 to January 2005 and
served as its Vice President.
• About Amazon growth, he says, ”there was no “ah-ha” moment
that lead this online bookseller to one day disrupt a trillion dollar
technology market”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6_V539QHf0

8. Megan Smith (50)
 Current: Chief Technology Officer of United States.
 Started: Multimedia; HyperCard - marketing, developer svcs, biz dev, etc
at Apple Computer Japan – Tokyo in December 1988
• She has been previously the vice president of Google[x] at
Google after leading was business development at Google for
nine years, and was general manager of Google.org and the
former CEO of Planet Out.
• She is a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on
Voluntary Aid and co-founded the Malala Fund.
• She was featured among Top 25 Women on the Web in 2000.
• In 2012 and 2013,Smith was listed by Out magazine as one of
the 50 most powerful LGBT people in the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiN1T7uMuD0

9. Alex Roetter (36)
• Currently :the Senior Vice President of Engineering at twitter.
• He was a software engineer at Google Inc. from 2002 to 2009
• He was the Director of Engineering at Laufer Wind Group from
2009 to 2010.
• He was one of the founding member of Google’s AdSense team.
• He joined twitter in 2010.
• He replaced Chris Fry as SVP of Engineering, who stepped down
in May, 2014.
• He was amongst Twitter’s Move to Become a Mobile-Services
Shop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5EqZLVyUE

10. Mike Gamson (40)
• Currently: Senior Vice President of Global Solutions at LinkedIn.
• He has founded Viva Burritos in 1996
• Previously, he has worked as Financial Analyst at Bank of America,
Director of Product Marketing from at Advent Software, Inc.
• Mr. Gamson served as Vice President of Sales for Hiring Solutions
business at LinkedIn Corporation from June 2008 to January 2011,
and its General Manager of LinkedIn Research Network from
September 2007 to June2008.
• About Sales, he says, “Be like a batman, not a beat cop”.
• As per him, the office can be fit into pocket using technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSO2kYVgOEU

11. KAT HOLMES
Currently : design director, Operating System at Microsoft.
Started: as an engineer at Tektronix in Portland, Oregon
• She has been features among the four people helping to
design the future of Microsoft by the Official Microsoft Blog.
• She leads next-generation design work on Windows and Xbox,
most recently focusing on the Windows Phone personal
assistant Cortana.
• Outside work, she collaborated with Warner Bros. and VICE
Media’s online magazine, Motherboard, to create Captivated
by Her, a two-part documentary inspired by the Spike Jonze
film Her.
• The documentary follows workshops with students, artists
and innovators to explore how interactions between humans
and technology might be made more emotionally intelligent.