Top-10 lesser known People in Tech

Meet the Men and Women in Technology who have stayed out of the limelight yet helped tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Twitter achieve greatness and yet have stayed out of the limelight. Iamwire profiles the Top-10 tech

Sir Jonathan Ive (48)

▪ Currently: Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc.▪ First Job: 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”.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh8IEYtmcw

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.

• During her tenure Samsung and Apple fought over the design of their phones. After lengthy deliberation, the jury found Samung guilty of violating patent.

Peng Jiang(42)▪ Currently: He is 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.

• Peng Jiang also known as Leo, is the president of YunOS - a Linux distribution software designed for smartphones based on Android Open Source Project.

David Ebersman (46)• Currently : Co-founder and CEO of Lyra Health. • First Job: 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 through Arthur Levinson, who recommended Ebersman to Zukerberg, despite his lack of Internet experience.

• He replaced Gideon Yu, who left Facebook in controversial circumstances.

• He was the man behind Facebook IPO.

Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD_JtBpiylg

Stephanie Hannon (40) • Currently: CTO of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.• First Job: Software Engineer at Granite System in 1996.

• 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”.

Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8zfNaTSiXs

Andrew R. Jassy (47)• Currently : Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services. • Before Amazon, he worked as Director at Coupa Software.

• 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 led this online bookseller to one day disrupt a trillion dollar technology market.”

Watchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6_V539QHf0

Megan Smith (50) ▪ Current: Chief Technology Officer of United States Government. ▪ First Job: Multimedia; HyperCard - marketing, developer svcs, business

development at Apple Computer Japan in 1988.

• She was the Vice President of Google[X] after leading 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, Megan Smith was listed by Out magazine as

one of the 50 most powerful LGBT people in the United States

Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiN1T7uMuD0

Alex Roetter (36)

• Currently : Senior Vice President of Engineering at Twitter.• Previous Job: 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 Senior Vice President of Engineering in

May, 2014.• He spearheaded Twitter’s move to become a Mobile-Services

Shop.

Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5EqZLVyUE

Mike Gamson (40)• Currently: Senior Vice President of Global Solutions at LinkedIn.• Previous Job: Financial Analyst at Bank of America.

• Mike Gamson served as Vice President of Sales for Hiring Solutions business at LinkedIn Corporation from June 2008 to January 2011, and was General Manager of LinkedIn Research Network from September 2007 to June 2008.

• Mike’s views on sales is legendary , he says, “Be like a batman, not a beat cop.”

• Mike thinks technology can help us fit our ‘office’ into a ‘pocket’.

Watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSO2kYVgOEU

KAT HOLMES

Currently : Design Director, Operating System at Microsoft.First Job: Engineer at Tektronix in Portland, USA

• She has been featured among the top four people helping to design the future of Microsoft by the Official Microsoft Blog.

• She leads the 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 Spike Jonze’s movie Her.

• The documentary follows workshops with students, artists and innovators to explore how interactions between humans and technology might be made more emotionally intelligent.