Joanna Shields Biography
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields is a British-American technology industry veteran serving as the Group CEO for BenevolentAI. Previously, she worked as the UK minister for internet safety and security, Under Secretary of State, and advisor on the Digital Economy to David Cameron.
Before joining the government, she had over 25 years of experience building some of the world’s most renown technology companies such as Electronics for Imaging, RealNetworks, Google, AOL, and Facebook. In addition, she is also noted to have been a critical piece in the growth of such startups as Bebo, Decru, and Veon.
She studied at Penn State University. There, she was part of the Chi Omega sorority. After graduating, she attended George Washington University in Washington D.C. for her post-graduate studies. She emerged from Washington with an MBA. Sometime later, Joanna got a Doctorate in Public Service, Honoris Causa, from George Washington University in May 2016.
Joanna Shields Age
Shields was born on 12th July 1962 in St Marys, a city in Elk County of Pennsylvania in the United States.
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She divorced her first husband and married a Briton, Andy Stevenson. Andy is a sporting director of the Force India Formula 1 team. He was born on 29th September 1067 in Scunthorpe in the United Kingdom. She lives with her husband and her son from her first marriage.
Joanna Shields Family
Shields was born in Pennsylvania in a family of five children and she is the second-born. Not much else is known about her immediate family. It seems that she is single. She has not been known to be intimately involved with anyone anytime.
Joanna Shields Net Worth
Shields who is ranked 10th position in the social media millionaires has a net worth of £50 million.
Joanna Shields Tech City
In 1984, when she was still a business graduate student, she had a part-time job working at the National Affairs Office of Deloitte in Washington. She was to write a business plan for a startup called NDC (National Digital Corporation). In this time, she had the belief that digital technology would change the way we live our lives and how we interact with each other. In this job, she encountered Efi Arazi, an Israeli entrepreneur and founder of Scitex. This was just by the time he had just founded EFI (Electronics for Imaging, Nasdaq: EFII).
She left Veon after completing its transfer of ownership then joined RealNetworks, the company that invented streaming audio and video. She was given the role of running the business outside the U.S. For a time, she worked with EFI to build the business of a storage encryption company, Decru. Next, she became the managing director for Google Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In this role, she played a key part in developing Adsense. Also, she is noted to be a key person in the acquisition of content and partnerships for such products such as Google Mail, Video (before YouTube), Maps, Local, News and Books.
In New York, Joanna started working in People Networks, AOL’s newly founded platform. She oversaw the company’s social and communication assets such as AIM, AOL Instant Messenger, and ICQ. She also worked with AOL in the development of Bebo with the release of Timeline in 2009. That same year, she was recruited by Sheryl Sandberg. She was to run Facebook’s operations in Europe Middle East & Africa as Vice President and managing director. With this, she built EMEA into the company’s largest region. She also presided over the growth of international presence to over one billion users.
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In 1989, she moved from Washington to Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area. There she joined the newly founded company. She started off as a product manager but with time, she became the company’s Vice President of Production systems. By 1997, she had left EFI and was now the CEO of Veon. Veon was an interactive video technology company that used patents to add interactive links to video streams that eventually attained the MPEG4 video standard. In 2000, Veon was acquired by Phillips.
Sometime in late 2006, she was given the opportunity to become the CEO of Bebo, a social networking startup. There, she introduced Open Media. This allowed Bebo’s platform for media companies to reach its 50M, Also, it enabled Bebo’s users to monetize their content. She also introduced Bebo Originals, a series of original online shows. In May 2008, Bebo was acquired by AOL for US$ 850 million. After this, Joanna Shields relocated to New York City for some time.
In May 2018, she was announced as the new CEO of BenevolentAI, a medical startup based in London. The company aims to change the way medicine is designed, developed, tested and delivered to the market using computational medicine and AI technology.
Joanne Shields Horse Riding
She offers tuition in all three disciplines hence she has her own competition horses and competes regulatory in BE, BD, and BS. Joanne has superb training facilities at Field Farm. Shields also takes on working pupils and has trained students up to BHSII.
Joanne Shields House of Lords
Shields was made a Life Peer in the House of Lords in 2014.
Joanne Shields Awards and Honors
- Life Baroness
- OBE.
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- Alumni Fellows Award – Penn State
- Distinguished Alumni Award – George Washington University
- AACSB International’s “Influential Leaders” Accreditation 2016
- Debrett’s 500 – Digital & Social Sector
- International Figures Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Award for Motherhood and Childhood
- World Childhood Foundation ThankYou Award – World Childhood Foundation
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