Mary Meeker

Venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst, Meeker was born in 1959 in Portland, IN. Her primary work is on Internet and new technologies. In 1995, Meeker and Chris DePuy at Morgan Stanley, published The Internet Report, a landmark Morgan Stanley industry report, which became known as “the bible” for investors in the Dot com boom. She is a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 2014, Meeker was listed as the 77th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine.