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Introduction
Megan Smith is an American engineer and technologist. She was the third Chief Technology Officer of the United States (U.S. CTO) and Assistant to the President, serving under President Barack Obama. She was previously a vice president at Google, leading new business development and early-stage partnerships across Google’s global engineering and product teams at Google for nine years.
Smith was the general manager of Google.org, a vice president briefly at Google where she co-created WomenTechmakers, is the former CEO of Planet Out and worked as an engineer on early smartphones at General Magic. She serves on the boards of MIT and Vital Voices, was a member of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid and co-founded the Malala Fund. Today Smith is the CEO and Founder of shift7. On September 4, 2014, she was named as the third (and first female) U.S. CTO, succeeding Todd Park, and serving until January 2017.
Early life
| Name | Megan Smith |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Engineer, Technologist |
| Age | 58 years |
| Height | 1.71m |
Megan J. Smith was born on October 21, 1964 (age 58 years) in Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario, and spent many summers at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, where her mother, Joan Aspell Smith, was director of the Chautauqua Children’s School. Smith graduated from City Honors School in 1982.
Smith went on to receive her S.B. in 1986 and an S.M. in 1988, both in mechanical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed her master’s thesis work at the MIT Media Lab. She was a member of the MIT student team that designed, built and raced a solar car 2000 miles across the Australian outback in the first cross-continental solar car race.
Career
Megan Smith worked at a variety of start-ups following MIT, including Apple in Tokyo and General Magic located in Mountain View, California, as product design lead on nascent smartphone technologies before she got involved with the launch of Planet Out in 1995.
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Smith joined formally in 1996 as COO and from 1998 she was Planet Out’s Chief Executive Officer, where she expanded partnerships, built new business models, grew revenue and global users, raised venture funding, and later presided over that company’s merger with Gay.com.
In 2003, she joined Google, where she rose to the vice president of new business development, leading early-stage partnerships, pilot explorations, and technology licensing across Google’s global engineering and product teams.
Megan Smith led many early acquisitions, including Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps), and Picasa, and later also took over as general manager of Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. Smith co-created and co-hosted Google’s Solve for X solution acceleration programs 2012-14.
In 2012, she started Google’s “Women Techmakers” diversity initiative to expand visibility, community and resources for technical women globally. In 2014, she left Google to become the 3rd U.S. CTO. In that role, Smith recruited top tech talent to serve across government collaborating on pressing issues, from AI, data science, and open source, to inclusive economic growth, entrepreneurship, structural inequalities, government tech innovation capacity, STEM/STEAM engagement, workforce development, and criminal justice reform.
Her teams focused on broad capacity building by co-creating all-hands-on-deck initiatives, including the public-private program TechHire, the Computer Science for All initiative, and the Image of STEM campaigns. In addition, she launched the campaign to #FindtheSentiments, which is an effort to find the Declaration of Sentiments, a piece of history from the Seneca Falls Convention.
Megan Smith became CEO and Founder of shift7 after leaving the White House in 2017 which works on tech-forward, inclusive innovation for faster impact on systemic economic, social, and environmental challenges. At shift 7, the team continued co-creating the United Nations Solutions Summit and other programs.
Smith helped launch Tech Jobs Tour in 2017, aimed at promoting diversity in the technological sector, traveling to over 20 U.S. cities to help empower and connect local talent to their nascent tech sectors. Smith serves on the board of MIT, Vital Voices, LA2028, and Think of Us as well as on the advisory boards for the MIT Media Lab and the Algorithmic Justice League.
She is also a member of the Award Selection Committee for the distinguished Carroll L. Wilson Award at MIT. Smith has contributed to a broad range of engineering projects, including a bicycle lock, a space station construction program, and solar cookstoves. She is an active proponent of STEM education and innovation.
Megan Smith’s appeal for technologists to work in public service at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing inspired several Harvard University students to create the national non-profit organization Coding it Forward which creates a data science and technology internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in United States federal agencies.
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Smith was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for leading technological innovation teams and efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM industries both nationally and globally and elected a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018.
Wife
Is Megan Smith married? Megan Smith was married to her ex-wife Kara Swisher from 1999 to 2018. Her ex-wife is a technology columnist Kara Swisher in Marin County in 1999 (before same-sex marriage was legal in California). Smith and her ex-wife Kara Swisher have two sons, Louis and Alexander, and are divorced as of 2018.
Megan Smith net worth
How much is Megan Smith worth? Megan Smith net worth is estimated at around $5 million. Her main source of income is from her primary work as an engineer and technologist. Megan Smith’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $400,000 dollars annually. Her remarkable achievements have earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. She is one of the richest and most influential engineers and technologists in the United States. She stands at an appealing height of 1.71m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.
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