Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969 in Washington, DC ) is an American businesswoman and since 2008 Co-Managing Director ( COO ) of Facebook Inc.
biography
Sandberg was born in Washington, DC in 1969 to Adele (née Einhorn) and Joel Sandberg, she is the oldest of three children. Her father was an ophthalmologist, her mother an English teacher. The family initially lived in North Miami Beach , Florida, where Sandberg attended school. In 1987 she began studying economics at Harvard University, which she graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). In her thesis, she dealt with violence in families and social inequalities between spouses. At Harvard she met the economist and well-known deregulator of financial markets, Lawrence Summers , who put her on his research team at the World Bank . Sandberg dealt with the subject of India and diseases such as AIDS. From 1993 to 1995 she attended Harvard Business School .
From 1995 to 1996 she worked at McKinsey & Company , then as Chief of Staff at the US Treasury Department from 1996 to 2001. From 2001 she was Vice President of Global Online Sales at Google . In 2007 she switched to Facebook.
Sandberg is one of the richest women in the world and positions herself as a representative of a new American women's movement . Her book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead was published in March 2013 . At the same time, Sandberg started her ideas platform “Lean in Circles” aimed at women.
In 2012 it attracted wider attention in the course of Facebook's IPO; According to the media, it should cover the business side on the side of Facebook's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg . Her salary for 2011 was $ 30 million. Sandberg's net worth is estimated (as of January 2014) at over $ 1 billion; it consists largely of Facebook stocks and stock options.
In a 2014 ranking by Forbes Magazine , Sheryl Sandberg was ranked 9th most powerful woman in the world. In 2016, she took 7th place on this list. In 2017, Forbes magazine once again rated her at number four.
From 2004 until his death in 2015, she was married to Dave Goldberg , CEO of SurveyMonkey . Goldberg, with whom she has two children, died of a heart attack in May 2015 at the age of 47 . Together with the psychology professor Adam Grant she wrote the book Option B: How we overcome strokes of fate through resilience and find joy in life . The book is intended to help people deal with severe blows of fate.
Publications
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead . Knopf, 2013, ISBN 0-385-34994-7 .
- Option B: How we overcome strokes of fate through resilience and find joy in life . Ullstein Hardcover, 2017, ISBN 3-550-08186-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ken Auletta: A Woman's Place. The New Yorker , July 11, 2011, accessed May 2, 2015 .
- ^ Benjamin A. Einhorn - Death Notice - Classified. Miami Herald, October 27, 2007, accessed May 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Newsweek Magazine ( January 15, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive ) October 3, 2008
- ↑ in German, analogously: "Hang in there: women, work and the will to lead"
- ↑ New York Times of February 21, 2013: "A Titan's How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling"
- ↑ Facebook IPO. Zuckerberg's ambassador , FAZ.net by Roland Lindner, February 1, 2012
- ^ David de Jong: Sheryl Sandberg Becomes One of Youngest US Billionaires . In: Bloomberg LP , January 21, 2014.
- ↑ The World's 100 Most Powerful Women Sheryl Sandberg
- ^ The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
- ↑ The $ 1.6 Billion Woman, Staying on Message , nytimes.com, Feb. 4, 2012
- ↑ Karen Merkel: Suddenly Widow: How Sheryl Sandberg found new life. In: Handelszeitung from May 24, 2017.
- ↑ Roland Lindner: From “Lean In” to “Option B” In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 24, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sandberg, Sheryl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sandberg, Sheryl Kara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | american businesswoman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |