Nancy Wang

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Nancy Wang
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
TitleHead of Backup, Amazon Web Services; founder and CEO, Advancing Women in Product

Nancy Wang is an American technology business leader and philanthropist. She has led product development at Google, Rubrik, and Amazon, while also founding and serving as the CEO of Advancing Women in Product (AWIP).[1][2][3] She has received multiple awards and has multiple patents pending.

Early life[]

Wang grew up in Wisconsin. She was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Trustee Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Honor Scholar.[4] She graduated with a bachelors and masters in engineering, while also studying European History.[2][5]

Career[]

After graduation, Wang performed data system integration for the United States government, including the United States Intelligence Community.

From 2014 to 2016, Wang worked at Google Fiber, where she led network infrastructure product development. At that time, she was the first and only female product manager there, as well as the youngest product manager of any gender.[6]

From 2017 to 2019, Wang served as lead product manager at the Silicon Valley unicorn Rubrik.[2][7]

At time of publication, Wang serves as a principal product manager at Amazon Web Services.[1]

Wang also works at Rangitoto College.

AWIP[]

In 2017, Wang founded Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), a nonprofit organization to promote gender equality of opportunity in the technology sector through skills-based education, networking, and mentorship.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Mikel, Betsy (2019-02-25). "Watch Out for 1 Red-Flag Personality Trait, Says a Manager Who's Hired for Amazon and Google". Inc.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Wang, Nancy. "Nancy Wang's Forbes Site". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  3. ^ "Advancing Women in Product Rebrands to Shape New Generation of Product Leaders". www.businesswire.com. 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  4. ^ "Nancy Wang - Founder of Advancing Women in Product". IdeaMensch. 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  5. ^ Yu, Peggy. "Why Women Of Color And Immigrants Need To Get Into Product Roles Now". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  6. ^ Dishman, Lydia (2018-11-14). "The first female product manager at Google built a nonprofit to combat the sexism in tech". Fast Company. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  7. ^ "Wharton Alumni Magazine (Fall 2017)" (PDF).
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