With some 725,000 followers on Twitter, Wisconsin born Marissa Mayer is a popular and powerful lady. Formerly the key spokesperson for Google, San Francisco based Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo! in July 2012 and was ranked one of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes in 2013. This Stanford educated Lutheran was the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to appear in a Vogue magazine spread in September that year and once stated her priorities as “God, family and Yahoo, except I’m not that religious, so it’s really family and Yahoo”. Worth some £191 million ($310 million), Mayer surprisingly describes herself as “shy” and “naïve”; we’d bet that she’s really far from either.

The Roll Call - INNOVATORS

1

Pete Cashmore (AKA ‘The Sage of Media’)

2

Sara Little (née Sara Finkelstein, AKA “Tiny Little”, “Corporate America’s Secret Weapon”,1917-2015)

3

Blake Mycoskie

4

Justin Weiss

5

Andy Dunn

6

Ena Baxter (AKA “The Queen of Soup”, 1925 – 2015)

7

George Frost

8

Yasser Khattak

9

Hilary Newsom Callan

10

Hart Main

11

Russ Weiner

12

Doreen Lofthouse OBE MBE (AKA “Mrs Fisherman’s Friend”)

13

Baroness Greenfield CBE

14

Carter Cleveland

15

Marissa Mayer

16

Brian Chesky

17

Dr William Shockley (1910 – 1989)

18

Evan Spiegel

19

Carlo Mondavi

20

Prince Fahad bin Faisal Al Saud

21

Percy Shaw OBE (1890 – 1976)

22

Laurence Benson

23

Sara Blakely

24

Dr Alexander Moulton CBE (1920 – 2012)

25

Joanne Moore

26

Prince Lorenzo Borghese

27

Henrik Fisker

28

Nicko Williamson

29

Edward Rigg