Tekedra Mawakana Biography
Tekedra Mawakana is an American businesswoman, lawyer and Waymo’s co-CEO who formerly served as the company’s CFO. Mawakana has worked with Steptoe & Johnson, AOL, Yahoo!, and eBay, and has served on several boards.
Mawakana Age
Tekedra 53 years old as of 2024. She was born in 1971 Mississippi, in the United States.
Tekedra Mawakana Husband
Mawakana is married. Her husband’s identity is not known. The couple lives in the Bay Area with her their son.
Tekedra Mawakana Salary and Net Worth
The total remuneration that Mawakana received as a member of the Board of Directors at INTUIT INC. was $360,627. Of this total, $25,000 came from fees earned or paid in cash, $0 from compensation under a non-stock incentive plan, $0 from changes in pension value and earnings from nonqualified deferred compensation, $0 from options, $335,627 from stock awards, and $0 from other forms of compensation.
Career
Mawakana started her career at the multinational legal firm Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., where she worked mostly in the areas of telecommunication and intellectual property. After that, she worked as a corporation counsel for Startec Global Communications, a “mid-size Washington-area” telecom provider.
Later, Mawakana worked in legal divisions at Yahoo! and AOL, where she held policy positions! Before joining Yahoo! as deputy general counsel in 2013, she spent about twelve years at AOL, where she oversaw the Washington, D.C. office and the company’s attempts to stop widespread monitoring. Then, beginning in 2016, she spent 14 months as eBay’s chief of worldwide government relations.
In 2017, Mawakana became the vice president of government affairs and public policy at Waymo. She concentrated on increasing autonomous driving testing, regulation, and competitiveness with conventional automakers in this capacity. In 2019, Mawakana was elevated to the position of chief operating officer, where she is now in charge of the company’s public relations and policy, business development and operations, corporate social responsibility, and communications and marketing. Since April 2021, Mawakana has served as Waymo’s co-chief executive officer (CEO).
She has a business function, whereas co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov focuses on technology. The two have a “slightly unorthodox power-sharing arrangement” and have “established a tight working relationship and have been substantially involved in Waymo’s most high-profile accomplishments,” according to Pete Bigelow of Automotive News in 2021. She is the second Black woman to lead a company that develops self-driving technology.
Mawakana serves on the boards of directors of Intuit, Boom Supersonic’s advisory council, and the Consumer Technology Association’s board of industry leaders. She is also a member of the board of advocacy organization Saving Promise, which aims to stop domestic abuse, and the advisory board of the investment firm Operator Collective. Mawakana has also served on the board of the Global Network Initiative and as chair of the Internet Association.
Included on Washingtonian magazine’s list of “100 Top Tech Leaders” in 2015, Mawakana was praised for her efforts at Yahoo! to “protect the privacy of users” against NSA snooping. Because of her work at Waymo, she was listed as one of the “100 leading women” in the North American automotive sector by Automotive News in 2020.