Deb Liu was most recently the President and CEO of Ancestry. With twenty years in the tech industry, she was named Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Influence, Business Insider’s most powerful female engineers, and one of PaymentsSource’s most influential women in payments. She was previously a senior executive at Meta, where she created and led Facebook Marketplace, a platform for over a billion people to buy from and sell to one another. She also led the development of Facebook’s first mobile ad product for apps and its mobile ad network, in addition to building the company’s games business and payments platform, which includes Facebook Pay. Prior to Facebook, she spent several years in product roles at PayPal and eBay, where she led integration between the two products. She serves on the board of Intuit and Ancestry and is a seed investor and advisor to several startups. She also holds several payments- and commerce-related patents.
Actively involved in promoting diversity in tech, Deb founded Women In Product, a nonprofit with over 30,000 members, with the goal of connecting and supporting women in the product management field. She is a member of the Committee of 100, a group of prominent Chinese Americans, and was named an A100 by Gold House, an honor recognizing impactful Asian Americans. She serves on the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering Board of Visitors.
Deb received a BS in Civil Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is the author of the book, Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work. Each week, she posts her thoughts in Perspectives, her Substack newsletter. She lives in California with her husband and three children, and enjoys chronicling their family adventures in her Mommy School comic strip.
Opening Keynote with Deb Liu, Former CEO Ancestry