Who We Are: Rebecca Norlander

Partner Engineering Manager, Micrososft Online Advertising Platform

Rebecca Norlander Rebecca started as a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft in 1991. Since then, she has traveled the company through various development organizations, most recently as General Manager of the System Protection Team in Windows. In the interim, she has played various technical roles in the Office team, the COM team, and the IE team, and as the leader of Microsoft Windows XP SP2. In November 2006, Rebecca became Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, Ray Ozzie. In 2009 she became Partner Engineering Manager, Micrososft Online Advertising Platform. She keeps coming to work because she is passionate about the positive potential of software in the world. Rebecca graduated with a BA in Computer Science in 1991 and she was a lead speaker at the 2002 Grace Hopper, Women in Computing conference.

Officers

  • Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President

Corporate Counsel

  • Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Staff

Our Founder

Board of Trustees

  • William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
  • Robin Abrams, Investor
  • Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM
  • Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President, Research, and Director, HP Labs, HP
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
  • Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
  • Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  • Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Payroll, Intuit
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
  • Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
  • Ike Nassi, Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President, SAP
  • Brian Pawlowski, CTO, and Senior Vice President, NetApp
  • Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
  • Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

Individual and Organizations

Board of Advisors