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Wal-Mart (WMT) Nominates Google's (GOOG) Marissa Mayer to Board

April 16, 2012 9:12 AM EDT
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced that its board of directors has nominated Marissa A. Mayer of Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) for election as a new member of the company’s board at Walmart’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on June 1, 2012. If elected, Mayer would become the sixteenth member of the board.

Mayer is vice president of Local and Maps for Google Inc. in Mountain View, Calif., a position she has held since 2010. She leads the product management and engineering efforts of Google’s local, mobile, and local-based products. Mayer previously served as Google’s vice president, Search Products and User Experience, beginning in 2005. Mayer began her career with Google in 1999 as its first female engineer and has launched hundreds of products and features during that time.


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