Sheryl Sandberg Net worth 2024

Sheryl Sandberg net worth 2024: Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American business billionaire who serves in the capacity of the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and the CEO of Leaning.Org. She is also the first woman to have been elected as an executive board member of Facebook. She was previously the Vice President of Global […]

Sheryl Sandberg net worth Profile

Net worth: $1.9 billion

Full Name: Sheryl Sandberg

Date of Birth: August 28,1969

Nationality: American

Occupation: COO of Facebook, businesswoman

Marital Status: Widowed

Early Life

Sheryl Sandberg was born August 28,1969 in Washington DC, United States of America. She is the eldest daughter of three children born to Jewish parents Joel and Adele Sandberg. Her father Joel was an ophthalmologist while the mother Adele was a college teacher.

She schooled at Northern Miami Beach High School after which she attended Harvard University where she graduated with a BA degree in Economics as the top graduating student in Economics and was awarded the John H. Williams Prize for her outstanding performances while schooling there. It was while at Harvard that she co-founded the Women in Economics and Government. It was during this time that she came in contact with her thesis adviser and mentor, Lawrence Summers.

Lawrence Summers finally employed Sandberg to be his research assistant at the World Bank where she worked for about one year on several health projects in India dealing with Leprosy, Blindness and Aids. She later obtained an MBA at Harvard Business School

Sheryl Sandberg’ s Career

On graduating from Business school in 1995, Sheryl Sandberg worked at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant for a year, after which she worked United States Secretary of the Treasury who was Larry Summers her mentor and thesis adviser back in Harvard University.

Having known her amazing business qualities, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, decided to higher Sheryl Sandberg as the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, thereby also making her the eight board member and the first woman to be among the board members.

As the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sandberg made a very huge impact in terms of the company’s revenue as she helped increase the sales and revenue of Facebook greatly to $84.2 billion.

Sheryl Sandberg also sits on boards of several companies such as Brookings Institution, Ad Council, The Walt Disney Company, Center for Global Development, and V-Day

Career Highlights

She has been listed as one of the world’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes.

In 2012, Newsweek and The Daily Beast released their first “Digital Power Index”, a list of the 100 most significant people in the digital world that year (plus 10 additional “Lifetime Achievement” winners), and she was ranked number 3 in the “Evangelists” category.[94]

she was named in Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time in 2012.

Leaning.Org, of which Sheryl Sandberg was the CEO was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award

In 2013, she was ranked #8 on “The World’s 50 Most Influential Jews” conducted by The Jerusalem Post.

Family

Sheryl Sandberg got married to her late husband and former CEO of Survey monkey, Dave Solberg who later died mysteriously in 2015 at the age of 47.