Deb Liu

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Deborah Liu is an American technology executive and CEO of Ancestry.com.[1] Liu was director of product for the end-to-end buyer experience at eBay and spearheaded the integration between eBay and PayPal.[2][3] In 2009, she joined Facebook,[4] where she worked on Facebook Credits and Facebook Platform[5] and helped build their mobile app install ad business[6].In 2016, she founded Facebook Marketplace.[7] After being at Facebook for 11 years, Liu joined Ancestry.com as its CEO, effective March 1, 2021.[8]

Liu serves on the board of Intuit[2] and Women in Product.[9][10] She was included on Business Insider's list of "The Most Powerful Female Engineers"[11] and PaymentsSource's list of "The Most Influential Women in Payments",[12] and is a member of the Committee of 100.[13]

She is a graduate of Duke University (B.S.E in Civil Engineering) and Stanford Business School

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  1. ^ Ford, Brody; Chang, Emily (February 3, 2021). "Facebook Executive Deborah Liu Named CEO of Ancestry.com". Bloomberg News.
  2. ^ a b Intuit (July 20, 2017). "Intuit Appoints Deborah Liu to Board of Directors" (Press release) – via BusinessWire.
  3. ^ Olsen, Parmy (January 29, 2018). "Meet The Woman Building Facebook's eBay-Killer". Forbes.
  4. ^ Deb Liu (November 14, 2017). "'Optimize for people and passion,' says Facebook's Deb Liu". The Lily (Washington Post) (Interview). Interviewed by The Lily and OK Real.
  5. ^ Winn, Layne (October 15, 2019). "Founder of Facebook Marketplace Deb Liu shares how Sheryl Sandberg convinced her to join". ABC News.
  6. ^ Lynley, Matthew (February 12, 2014). "Meet The Woman Behind One Of Facebook's Fastest-Growing And Most Lucrative New Businesses". BuzzFeed News.
  7. ^ Thau, Barbara (December 27, 2018). "Facebook 'Marketplace' Executive Reveals Key Retail Trends For 2019". Forbes.
  8. ^ "Ancestry.com Taps Facebook Executive for CEO Role". Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. February 4, 2021.
  9. ^ "About Us – Board of Directors". Women in Product. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  10. ^ Stanton, Zack (April 22, 2020). "'We wanted to be incredibly aggressive with this'". Politico.
  11. ^ Bort, Julie; Sandler, Rachel (June 21, 2018). "The 39 Most Powerful Female Engineers of 2018". Business Insider.
  12. ^ Fitzgerald, Kate; Adams, John; Heun, David; Moeser, Michael; Wolfe, Daniel (March 19, 2020). "The Most Influential Women in Payments, 2020". PaymentsSource.
  13. ^ "Members - Committee of 100 - Deborah Liu". Committee of 100. Retrieved February 11, 2021.


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