Women Running Tech
Women shaping major technology companies, AI labs, platforms, space, fintech, cybersecurity, and startup ecosystems.
21 faces
Who's in this deck?21 names — peek before you play
Lisa Su
Chair and CEO of AMD · AMD
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su is a Taiwanese and American business executive, computer scientist, and electrical engineer who has been the president and CEO of the American semiconductor company AMD since 2014.
Mira Murati
Founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab · Thinking Machines Lab
Ermira "Mira" Murati is an Albanian-American business executive. She is the CEO of the AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which she founded in February 2025. Previously she was the chief technology officer of OpenAI from May 2022 to September 2024, and a senior product manager at Tesla.
Fei-Fei Li
AI researcher and entrepreneur · World Labs / Stanford
Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-born American computer scientist best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s.
Fidji Simo
CEO of Instacart · Instacart
Fidji Simo is a French-American businesswoman and the CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI. Prior to OpenAI, she spent a decade at Facebook where she was one of the top executives as the head of Facebook, and was CEO of Instacart from 2021 to 2025.
Melanie Perkins
Co-founder and CEO of Canva · Canva
Melanie Perkins is an Australian technology entrepreneur. She is best known as for co-founding Canva, an online graphic design platform, with Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams. She serves as the company's chief executive officer.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder of Bumble · Bumble
Whitney Wolfe Herd is an American entrepreneur most notable as the founder, executive chair, and CEO of Bumble. She is a co-founder of Tinder and was previously its Vice President of Marketing.
Anne Wojcicki
Co-founder of 23andMe · 23andMe
Anne E. Wojcicki is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the personal genomics company 23andMe.
Meredith Whittaker
President of Signal · Signal
Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on its board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and chief advisor and former faculty director & co founder of the AI Now Institute.
Gwynne Shotwell
President and COO of SpaceX · SpaceX
Gwynne Shotwell is an American business executive and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth.
Safra Catz
CEO of Oracle · Oracle
Safra Ada Catz is an Israeli-American business executive. She is the executive vice chair and former CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001.
Reshma Saujani
Founder of Girls Who Code · Girls Who Code
Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer, activist, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization focused on reducing the gender gap in technology.
Sarah Friar
Chief financial officer of OpenAI · OpenAI
Sarah Jane Friar is a British/Irish-American business executive, who has been the chief financial officer (CFO) of OpenAI since June 2024. She was the chief executive officer of American technology company Nextdoor from 2018 to 2024 and the CFO of Block, Inc. from 2012 to 2018.
Amy Hood
Chief financial officer of Microsoft · Microsoft
Amy Hood is an American business executive and has been the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft since 2013. Hood is the first female chief financial officer in Microsoft's history.
Ruth Porat
President and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google · Alphabet / Google
Ruth Porat is a British-American business executive who is the president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google LLC and prior to that was the chief financial officer of the same companies from 2015 to 2024.
Cristina Junqueira
Co-founder and chief growth officer of Nubank · Nubank
Cristina Junqueira is a Brazilian businesswoman who is the co-founder of Nubank. With a background in engineering, she transitioned from management consulting to supervising a credit card portfolio at a major Brazilian bank.
Maya Horgan Famodu
Founder of Ingressive Capital · Ingressive Capital
Maya Horgan Famodu is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, founder and partner at Ingressive, a firm that provides services for firms and businesses expanding into Africa. She also founded Ingressive Capital, a venture capital fund investing in Africa-based technology companies.
Aicha Evans
Former CEO of Zoox · Zoox
Aichatou Sar Evans, known professionally as Aicha Evans, is an American chief executive officer of Amazon's self-driving car subsidiary Zoox. In June 2020, Evans led the acquisition of her company by Amazon for US$1.3 billion.
Daphne Koller
Founder and CEO of Insitro · Insitro / Coursera
Daphne Koller is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform.
Clara Shih
AI executive and entrepreneur · Salesforce AI
Clara Chung-wai Shih is an American businesswoman. She is the chairperson and former CEO of Hearsay Social, the digital software company she co-founded in 2009. Since November 2024, Shih leads the Business AI group at Meta Platforms.
Lucy Guo
Founder and investor · Passes / Scale AI
Lucy Guo is an American social media influencer and engineer who co-founded Scale AI in 2016 before being fired in 2018. In 2022, she founded an OnlyFans competitor known as Passes. Guo was the youngest self-made female billionaire until late 2025.
Joy Buolamwini
Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League · Algorithmic Justice League
Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is a Canadian-American computer scientist and digital activist formerly based at the MIT Media Lab.