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Sheryl Kara Sandberg (; born August 28, 1969)〔 is an American technology executive, activist, and author. She is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. 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 she joined Facebook as its COO, 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 United States Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers. In 2012 she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world according to ''Time'' magazine. As of June 2015, Sandberg is reported to be worth over US$1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies. == Early life and education == Sandberg was born in 1969 in Washington, D.C. to a Jewish family,〔 the daughter of Adele (née Einhorn) and Joel Sandberg, and the oldest of three children.〔 Her father is an ophthalmologist and her mother was a college teacher of the French language.〔 Adele taught English as a second language and founded Ear Peace-Save Your Hearing, a nonprofit that teaches teens how to prevent hearing loss.〔 She dropped out of a Ph.D. program when she was pregnant with Sheryl and concentrated on raising her children. Sheryl's maternal grandmother, Rosalind Einhorn, grew up in a poor family in a crowded apartment in New York City, finished high school in spite of being pulled out during The Great Depression, went on to community college, graduated from U.C. Berkeley, and later saved her family business from financial ruin. Sandberg's family was active in helping Soviet Jews make aliyah to Israel during refusenik era and attended rallies during the weekends.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sheryl Sandberg: the Facebook boss on a self-help mission )〕 She and her siblings had Soviet Bar and Bat Mitzvah twins.〔(Bar and Bat Mitzvah Twinning of Sheryl, David and Michelle Sandberg ), 1978-1986. Joel Sandberg (1943- ) and Adele Sandberg (1944- ) Papers; P-872; box 1; folder 3; American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY, and Boston, MA. 〕 Her parents were detained and interrogated in Kishinev and later expelled from the USSR. 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 sophomore class president, became a member of the National Honor Society, and was on the senior class executive board. Sandberg taught aerobics in the 1980s while in high school. In 1987 Sandberg enrolled at Harvard College. She graduated in 1991 ''summa cum laude'' with a B.A. in economics and was awarded the John H. Williams Prize for the top graduating student in economics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Executive Bios )〕 While at Harvard, she co-founded an organization called Women in Economics and Government.〔 She met then-professor Larry Summers, who became her mentor and thesis adviser. Summers recruited her to be his research assistant at the World Bank,〔 where she worked for approximately one year on health projects in India dealing with leprosy, AIDS, and blindness. In 1993 she enrolled at Harvard Business School and in 1995 she earned her M.B.A. with highest distinction.〔 In her first year of business school, she won a fellowship. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheryl Sandberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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