About Sheryl Sandberg (facebook COO )

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; born August 28, 1969) is an American technology executive, activist, and author. As of August 2013, she is the chief operating officer ofFacebook. In June 2012, she was elected to the board of directors by the existing board members becoming the first woman to serve on Facebook's board. Before Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President

 of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, and was involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Before Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

In 2012 she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according toTime magazine. As of January 2014, Sandberg is reported to be worth over US$1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies.

Early life and education[edit

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Sandberg was born in 1969, in Washington, D.C., in a Jewish American family, the daughter of Adele (née Einhorn) and Joel Sandberg, and the oldest of three children. Her father is an ophthalmologist, and her mother holds a PhD and worked as a French teacher before concentrating on raising her children. Her grandmother grew up in a poor Jewish American family in a crowded apartment in New York City, finished high school in spite of being pulled out during The Great Depression, then went on to community college and graduated from U.C. Berkeley and later saved her family business from financial ruin. Her brother is also a Harvard graduate and became a pediatric neurosurgeon who now practices at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital and her sister Michelle is a fellow Harvard graduate who now is a pediatrician based in Santa Clara, California.

Her family moved to North Miami Beach, Florida, when she was two years old. She attended North Miami Beach High School, where she was "always at the top of her class." and graduated ninth in her class with a 4.646 grade point average. She was a member of the National Honor Society and on the senior class executive board. Sandberg taught aerobics in the 1980s while in high school.