Srinija Srinivasan

Srinija Srinivasan was hired in 1995 as the fifth employee of Yahoo! by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo to "organize the content."^[1][2] Srinivasan left Yahoo! in 2010 while serving as a vice-president and editor-in-chief.^[3] Srinivasan co-founded music start-up, Loove.^[4]

Early life and education

Srinivasan holds a B.S degree, 1993, from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems.^[2] In 2000, Srinivasan became a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and was also a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.^[2] In 2010, she was appointed to the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.^[2]

Career in technology

Yahoo

Srinivasan was hired in 1995 as the fifth employee of Yahoo! by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo to "organize the content."^[1][2] She left Yahoo! in 2010 while serving as a vice-president and editor-in-chief.^[3]

Before coming to Yahoo!, she worked on the Cyc Project, an artificial intelligence project to create a database of human commonsense knowledge.

Public service

In 2010, Srinivasan was appointed by United States President Obama to the United States Commission on Presidential Scholars, a federal program to commemorate the achievement of distinguished graduating high school students.^[3]

She was elected to Stanford University's board of trustees in 2014.^[2]

References

1. Bhatt, Kamla (February 16, 2009). "At Yahoo, it has been about power of aggregation". Live Mint. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
2. Sullivan, Kathleen J. (18 March 2014). "Srinija Srinivasan, former executive at Yahoo, elected to Stanford's Board of Trustees". Stanford Report. Stanford University. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
3. Letzing, John (August 4, 2010). "Yahoo Executive Srinivasan to Leave". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
4. Goel, Vindu (2016-07-16). "When Yahoo Ruled the Valley: Stories of the Original 'Surfers'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-06.