Sheryl Kara Sandberg (/ˈsændbərɡ/; born August 28, 1969) is an American technology executive, activist, and author. She is the chief operating officer (COO) of Facebook and founder of Leanin.org (also known as the Lean In Foundation). In June 2012, she was elected to the board of directors by the existing board members, becoming the first woman to serve on Facebook’s board. Before she joined Facebook as its COO, Sandberg was vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, and was involved in launching Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org. Before Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for United States Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers.
In 2012, she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. As of June 2015, Sandberg is reported to be worth over US$1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies.
Early life and education
Sandberg was born in 1969 in Washington, D.C. to a Jewish family, the daughter of Adele (née Einhorn) and Joel Sandberg, and the oldest of three children. Her father is an ophthalmologist and her mother was a college teacher of French language. Adele taught English as a second language and founded Ear Peace-Save Your Hearing, a nonprofit that teaches teens how to prevent hearing loss. She dropped out of a Ph.D. program when she was pregnant with Sheryl and concentrated on raising her children. Sheryl’s maternal grandmother, Rosalind Einhorn, grew up in a poor family in a crowded apartment in New York City, finished high school in spite of being pulled out during The Great Depression, went on to community college, graduated from U.C. Berkeley, and later saved her family business from financial ruin. Sandberg’s family was active in helping Soviet Jews make aliyah to Israel during the refusenik era and attended rallies during the weekends. She and her siblings had Soviet Bar and Bat Mitzvah twins. Her parents were detained and interrogated in Kishinev and later expelled from the USSR.
Her family moved to North Miami Beach, Florida, when she was two years old. She attended North Miami Beach High School, where she was “always at the top of her class”, and graduated ninth in her class with a 4.646 grade point average. She was sophomore class president, became a member of the National Honor Society, and was on the senior class executive board. Sandberg taught aerobics in the 1980s while in high school.
In 1987 Sandberg enrolled at Harvard College. She graduated in 1991 summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in economics and was awarded the John H. Williams Prize for the top graduating student in economics. While at Harvard, she co-founded an organization called Women in Economics and Government. She met then-professor Larry Summers, who became her mentor and thesis adviser. Summers recruited her to be his research assistant at the World Bank, where she worked for approximately one year on health projects in India dealing with leprosy, AIDS, and blindness.
In 1993 she enrolled at Harvard Business School and in 1995 she earned her MBA with highest distinction. In her first year of business school, she earned a fellowship.
Summary
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Sandberg at Facebook London, April 2013
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| Born | Sheryl Kara Sandberg August 28, 1969 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Residence | Menlo Park, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | COO of Facebook |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Salary | US$15.5 million (2014) |
| Net worth | US$1.38 billion (March 2017) |
| Board member of | The Walt Disney Company Women for Women International Center for Global Development V-Day SurveyMonkey |
| Spouse(s) | Brian Kraff (m. 1993; div. 1994) Dave Goldberg (m. 2004; d. 2015) |
| Children | 2 (with Goldberg) |
American businesswoman and the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, has an estimated net worth of $1.38 billion in June 2016, according to Forbes. In 2012, she became one of the wealthiest self-made women in the world after Facebook went public. She earned a base salary of $295,833 with an $86,133 bonus in 2011. According to the S-1 filing, Sandberg has 1,899,986 shares of Facebook common stock.
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