Feb 22, 2011 - Claremont, Calif. -

Watch Harvey Mudd College's fifty-third commencement live on the web.

Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer and the youngest member of its executive operating committee, will deliver the keynote address during the 53rd Commencement ceremony for Harvey Mudd College (HMC), Sunday, May 15, at 1:30 p.m.

As vice president, Consumer Products, Mayer leads the product management and engineering efforts of Google’s local, mobile, and contextual discovery products including Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local Search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude and more. During her 11 years at Google, Mayer has led product management and design efforts for Google web search, images, news, books, products, toolbar and iGoogle. She started at Google in 1999 as its 20th employee and first woman engineer.

Mayer’s contributions and leadership have been recognized by numerous publications including the New York Times, Newsweek and BusinessWeek. Fortune magazine has listed her for the past three years on their annual list of Most Powerful Women, and she was the youngest ever to appear on the list. In 2010, Mayer was honored by the New York Women in Communications, Inc. with a Matrix Award. She also has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine.  Mayer serves on the board of various non-profits, including the Smithsonian National Design Museum, the New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Mayer received her B.S. in symbolic systems and her M.S. in computer science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence.

Media contact: Judy Augsburger, Senior Director of Advancement Communications
judy_augsburger@hmc.edu
909.607.0713