Srinija Srinivasan

Srinija Srinivasan BS ’93 (Symbolic Systems), is cofounder of Loove, a developing music venture designed to demonstrate how commerce and technology can be guided by artistic values rather than letting our culture be led by market values. In 1995, Srinija joined Yahoo! Inc. as their fifth employee and self-titled Ontological Yahoo to lead the organization and evolution of the Yahoo! Directory. As vice president, editor in chief, she led a range of editorial and policy functions globally, including network editorial standards, privacy and data use, advertising standards, youth safety, community guidelines, accessibility, and corporate responsibility, until stepping down in 2010. Prior to Yahoo!, Srinija was an Ontological Engineer for the Cyc Project, a large AI effort to build an immense database of commonsense knowledge. Srinija is a board member of the On Being Project, former vice chair of Stanford University's Board of Trustees, and past board chair of nonprofit SFJAZZ. She lives bi-coastally in Palo Alto, California and Brooklyn, New York.