Recognition World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2001, 2002 Listed by Out magazine in 2012 and 2013, as one of the 50 most powerful LGBT people in the United States Reuters Digital Vision Program Fellow at Stanford, 2003-2004 Top 25 Women on the Web, 2000 Upside Magazine 100 Digital Elite, 1999 and 2000 Advertising Age i.20, 1999 GLAAD Interactive Media Award for Internet Leadership, 1999 Charging Buffalo Award, 2015 Matrix Hall of Fame, 2015 Business Insider 23 Most Powerful LGBTQ+ People in Tech, 2019 Personal life Smith married technology columnist Kara Swisher in Marin County in 1999 (before same-sex marriage was legal in California). They have two sons, Louis and Alexander, and are divorced . References Further reading External links Official biography at Office of Science and Technology Policy Profile of Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer - Makers: Women Who Make America 1964 births Apple Inc. employees Women chief technology officers Google people American LGBT businesspeople LGBT people from New York (state) Living people MIT School of Engineering alumni Office of Science and Technology Policy officials Businesspeople from Buffalo, New York American women chief executives American chief technology officers LGBT appointed officials in the United States Place of birth missing (living people)