Deb Liu was most recently the president and CEO of Ancestry. During her 20 years in the tech industry, she was named one of Entrepreneur magazine’s 100 Women of Influence, Business Insider’s most powerful female engineers, and PaymentsSource’s most influential women in payments. She was previously a senior executive at Meta (previously Facebook), 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 is a seed investor and advisor to several start-ups. She also holds several payments- and commerce-related patents.

Actively involved in promoting diversity in tech, Liu 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.

Liu received a bachelor of science in civil engineering from Duke University and a master of business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is the author of 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.