Meet some of Silicon Valley’s female executives

On July 16, Yahoo named Marissa Mayer as its new chief executive. Prior to that, Mayer was a vice president at Google. Here’s a look at some of the other female executives at major technology companies.

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Marissa Mayer

On July 16, 2012, Yahoo named Marissa Mayer as its new chief executive. Before getting tapped for this position, Mayer was Google's vice president of location services. She was one of Google's earliest employees and the company's first female engineer. Mayer worked at Google for about 13 years.

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Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, listens during an interview in Las Vegas on June 5, 2012. Whitman said after the "turmoil" from last year's management upheaval, the company is working to differentiate itself with partnerships, a broad product base and an emphasis on engineering. Whitman took the helm of the tech giant in September of 2011. Before that, she was the chief executive of eBay, where she was considered one of the most powerful women in the business world. She served as the company's CEO for about 10 years until 2008. Two years later, Whitman tried her hand at running for California governor. She lost that race to former Gov. Jerry Brown.

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Ursula Burns

Ursula Burns, chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox, center, speaks during a panel discussion with Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, left, and Alan Mulally, president and CEO of Ford, at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Jan. 11, 2012. Burns started out at Xerox as a mechanical engineering intern in the 1980s. She helped restructure Xerox "as a leader in color technology and document services," the company's Web site says. In 2009, Burns became the tech company's CEO. Under her, the company had its biggest acquistion ever when it bought Affiliated Computer Services.

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Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook's chief operating officer. Similarly to Mayer, Sandberg worked at Google. There she served as vice president of global online sales. Prior to that, Sandberg worked at the U.S. Treasury Department, where she was a chief of staff, and she worked at the World Bank. In June 2012, Facebook named Sandberg to its board of directors, becoming the group's first female member.

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Diane Bryant

Diane Bryant is Intel's vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. One of her roles in this position is overseeing the product development for the company's "cloud server infrastructure," Intel says.

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Shona Brown

Shona Brown is the senior vice president of Google.org, which is the tech giant's charitable group. Prior to holding this position Brown helped build the business operations at Google.

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Virginia "Ginni" Rometty

Ginni Rometty was tapped to be IBM's president and CEO in October of 2011, becoming the first female chief executive in the company's 100-year history. Before serving as the head of "Big Blue," Rometty was the company's senior vice president and group executive for sales.

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Renee James

Kai Oistamo, head of devices at Nokia Oyj, right, and Renee James, a senior vice president at Intel, speak at a press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in this 2010 file photo. One of her James’s duties at Intel includes managing the company's developer programs.

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Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki, is the senior vice president of advertising at Google. Wojcicki made in onto Forbes's 2011 "Most Powerful Women" along with Sandberg, Burns, Mayer and Rometty. Wojcicki's sister Anne is married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

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epa03714567 A Thai Buddhist family take an offering of lotus flowers to pay respects to a giant Buddha surrounded by more than 1,000 smaller Buddha statues at a Buddhism Park, on Vesak or Visakha Bucha day, in Nakhon Nayok, north of Bangkok, Thailand, 24 May 2013. Buddhist devotees throughout the world offer blessings at temples to mark one of the holiest days in Buddhism, commemorating the birth, enlightenment and the death of Buddha. EPA/BARBARA WALTON

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No fatalities reported; collapse over Skagit River shuts down main route between Seattle and Canada.

SILVER SPRING MD: MAY 18
from left to right, Bodybuilders Jorge Villatoro, Sidney Bumbrey, Eric Holmes and Ron Coleman show off their most muscular poses for the judges at the 2013 Musclemania - Capital Tournament of Champions Contest held at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 18, 2013.
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A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of his government's emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a man in south London, his office said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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MOORE, OK - MAY 24: A 'For Sale' sign hangs in a tree in a storm ravaged neighborhood on May 24, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado of EF5 strength and two miles wide touched down May 20 killing at least 24 people and leaving behind extensive damage to homes and businesses. U.S. President Barack Obama promised federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Assessing tornado damage in Oklahoma

Amid great destruction, residents of the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore begin to assess the severity of the twister that hit Monday.

WASHINGTON DC: MAY 22
Contestant Travis Rumans, 31 dances with his beloved glow sticks for talent at Penn Social in Washington, DC on May 22, 2013. The contestants help raise over $15,000 for the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
The Mr. DC pageant is a fundraising event to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
The qualifications for the Mr. District of Columbia finalists is that they must live, work and attend school in the District of Columbia between the ages of 21-30 who are unmarried, intelligent, and dapper in a suit.
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Mr. D.C. Pageant contestants compete for charity

Contestants in the Mr. D.C. Pageant, a fundraising event, helped raise more than $15,000 for the Children’s National Medical Center.

A Burrowing owl tries to perch on a protective rope in a public park in Cooper City, Fla. Monday, May 20, 2013 as rain falls. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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