Deborah Liu is an American technology executive and the former CEO of genealogy company, Ancestry from 2021 to January of 2025 [1] [2] Liu served on the board of Intuit [3] and Women in Product. [4] [5]
Liu is of Chinese descent and her parents emigrated to the U.S. in the 1960s. [6] She was raised in a small town in South Carolina. [7] She is a graduate of Duke University (B.S.E in Civil Engineering) and Stanford Business School. [8]
Liu was director of product for the end-to-end buyer experience at eBay and spearheaded the integration between eBay and PayPal. [3] [9] She was director of product marketing management and product management at PayPal. [10]
In 2009, she joined Facebook, [11] where she worked on Facebook Credits and Facebook Platform [12] and helped build their mobile app install ad business. [13] In 2016, as VP of product development, she relaunched Facebook Marketplace [6] [14] and became VP of marketplace in 2017. [15]
After being at Facebook for 11 years, Liu joined Ancestry.com as its CEO March 1, 2021. [16]
She was included on Business Insider's list of "The Most Powerful Female Engineers" [17] and PaymentsSource's list of "The Most Influential Women in Payments", [18] and is a member of the Committee of 100. [19]
In August 2022, she published her first book "Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work". [6] Liu is a seed investor and advisor to startups. [20]