Anne Wojcicki
Anne Wojcicki (born June 28, 1973 in San Mateo County , California ) is an American entrepreneur in biotechnology .
Career
She is the daughter of physics professor Stanley Wojcicki at Stanford University and Esther Wojcicki , a journalist, teacher and vice president of Creative Commons . Her sister Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of the Google subsidiary YouTube . Anne Wojcicki earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Yale University in 1996 and then spent ten years as an analyst specializing in biotechnology companies. In 2006, she founded the genetic testing company 23andMe in Mountain View with Linda Avey and others .
In 2008, the gene test 23andMe was Invention of the Year by Time magazine . In 2013, Wojcicki was ranked 40th among the 40 most influential US CEOs in technology (Time Tech 40) by Time.
She is one of the founders of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences . In 2007 she married the Google founder Sergey Brin , with whom she has a son and a daughter. The couple split in 2013 and have been divorced since June 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 23andMe: corporate info . Archived from the original on November 13, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
- ↑ Creative Commons: Team: Advisory Council (English), accessed on June 7, 2019.
- ^ Wojcicki, Time Tech 40
- ^ The Way I Work: Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe
- ↑ fortune.com: Google's Sergey Brin and 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki legally divorced
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wojcicki, Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American businesswoman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Mateo County , California |