Anne Wojcicki
| Anne Wojcicki | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 28, 1973 San Mateo County, California |
| Residence | Los Altos Hills, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Genomics Pioneer |
| Known for | Co-founder and CEO of 23andMe |
| Spouse(s) | Sergey Brin (married 2007–2015) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) |
Stanley Wojcicki Esther Wojcicki |
| Relatives |
Susan Wojcicki (sister) Janet Wojcicki (sister) |
Anne E. Wojcicki (/woʊˈdʒɪtski/ woh-JIT-skee; Polish: [vujˈt͡ʃit͡skʲi]; born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief executive officer of the personal genomics company 23andMe. She was formerly married to Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin.
Wojcicki, the youngest of three daughters, was born in San Mateo County, California. Her parents are Esther Wojcicki (née Hochman), an educator, and Stanley Wojcicki, a physics professor emeritus at Stanford University. Her mother is Jewish and her father is a Polish-born American. Her sisters are Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube and a former executive at Google and Janet Wojcicki, anthropologist and epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
Wojcicki grew up on the Stanford campus. When she was two, she learned how to figure skate, but later quit and started playing ice hockey. She attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, and was an editor for The Oracle, the school newspaper, and won a scholarship for her sports stories. She attended Yale University, where she was a competitive ice skater and played on the varsity women's ice hockey team. She graduated with a B.S. in biology in 1996. She did molecular biology research at the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Diego.
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