As Yahoo! Inc.’s editor in chief, Srinija Srinivasan is the driving force behind Yahoo!’s team of human editors and is responsible for the development of Yahoo!’s own content throughout its global network. Srinivasan directs the classification and organization of Yahoo! Search and Directory and leads the team responsible for making it the most intuitive, robust, expandable and efficient guide for online information and discovery. In addition, she oversees such editorial features as the consumer Buzz Index, Daily Picks, and Ask Yahoo! among other areas. As the Internet evolves as a medium, these properties serve to provide consumers a place to find free, relevant and useful information that still has a human touch.

Prior to joining Yahoo! in 1995 as the company’s fifth employee, Srinivasan was involved with the Cyc Project, a ten-year artificial intelligence effort to build an immense database of human commonsense knowledge. She holds a B.S. with distinction from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems. Srinivasan has appeared in top publications and on television programs both locally and nationally, including The New York Times and FORTUNE, and “20/20.” She serves on the board of directors for the San Francisco Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ) and the Alliance for Lifelong Learning, a non-profit distance learning venture between Stanford, Oxford and Yale with programs conducted by some of the world’s most distinguished educators. Srinivasan is also a 2000 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.