Benjamin Wachenje
Title: CEO of Google's YouTube
Born: July 5, 1968, Santa Clara, California
Education: BA in history and literature, Harvard College; MS in economics, University of California, Santa Cruz; MBA, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Early Marker: Sublet the garage of her Menlo Park house to Sergey Brin, subsequently her younger sister's husband, and Larry Page for their search-engine start-up.
Big Idea: Led the growth of Google's advertising and analytic products, AdWords and AdSense, and its tricky transition to mobile; moved across to YouTube in CEO Larry Page's management revamp in March 2014 to drive increased revenue from the video portal.
Wave of the Future: Social, mobile and visual Web media
