title: Sheryl Sandberg
text: Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American businesswoman. She is the chief operating officer of Facebook.
  
  Early life and education
  Sandberg was born in 1969, in Washington, D.C., in a Jewish family. In 1987 started a Bachelor's degree in economics at Harvard College. She graduated in 1991 with the highest honor, summa cum laude. In 1993 she started at Harvard Business School. In 1995 she earned her M.B.A. with highest distinction. After this Sandberg worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company for a year.
  
  Career 
  From 1996 to 2001 she was Chief of Staff to the then United States Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers.
  
  In 2001 Sandberg became the vice president of Global Online Sales & Operations for Google Inc.. In 2007 Sandberg met Mark Zuckerberg, the maker of Facebook, at a Christmas party.
  
  Zuckerberg thought that Sandberg would be good at being Facebook's COO. In March 2008 Facebook hired Sandberg.
  
  December 2010, she gave a TED speech titled "Why we have too few women leaders." In 2012 she became the eighth member (and the first female member) of Facebook's board of directors. Sheryl Sandberg's first book Lean In was published on March 11, 2013.
  
  Personal life
  Sandberg married to Dave Goldberg, the CEO of SurveyMonkey, from 2003 until his death in 2015. She is a feminist.
  
  References
  
  Other websites
  Lean In
  
  Related pages
  
   Marissa Mayer
   Susan Wojcicki
   Zhang Xin
  
  1969 births
  Living people
  Businesspeople from California
  American feminists
  American Jews
  Jewish feminists
  People from Atherton, California
  Businesspeople from Washington, D.C.