Mary Meeker

Mary G. Meeker
Born	Portland, Indiana
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cornell University DePauw University
Occupation	Venture capitalist

Mary Meeker (born September 1959) is an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst. Her primary work is on Internet and new technologies. She is a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 2014, she was listed as the 77th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.

Born in Portland, Indiana, Meeker holds a B.A. in psychology from DePauw University (1981) and an M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University (1986).

In 1982, Meeker joined Merrill Lynch as a . After graduate school, she began as an analyst covering the technology sector at Salomon Brothers in 1986. She worked for Cowen from 1990-1991 before moving to Morgan Stanley to specialize in covering the personal computer and consumer software industries.

In August 1995, Morgan Stanley served as lead manager for the initial public offering of Netscape Communications. Later that year, 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 and went into popular circulation — as a book, and on the web. Over the years, Morgan Stanley published similar landmark reports led by Meeker on online advertising, e-commerce, evolution of search, the Internet in China, and the mobile Internet.

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