Carol Ann Bartz (born August 28, 1948)[1][2][3] is an American business executive, former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk.

A few years later, she and her younger brother, Jim, moved from Minnesota across the Mississippi River to the home of their grandmother, Alice, on a dairy farm near Alma, Wisconsin.

Bartz moved on to the computer industry, including jobs at Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems.

[13][14] Additionally, she has been a member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

"[16] In May 2009, Reuters reported that she had already "worked through an impressive checklist" at her new company, "upending the organizational structure, replacing executives and cutting costs, including 675 jobs, or 5 percent of the workforce.

"[17] Analysts described her efforts as precisely what the company required; reporter Alexei Oreskovic observed: For Yahoo's ranks, still shell-shocked from deep cuts in 2008 – including 1,600 axed jobs – the hope that Bartz brings is increasingly mixed with a dose of fear and uncertainty.

Yet broad support remains for Bartz despite the tough talk, canceled holiday parties and forced vacations that have come to define her era.

"[17] At her one-year mark at Yahoo in January 2010, Bartz gave herself a "B−" grade for the job done in 2009: "It was a little tougher internally than I think I had anticipated.

[21] In 2010 Bartz was named "most overpaid" CEO by proxy voting firm Glass-Lewis when she received $47.2 million in compensation.

(via phone call by Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock), and CFO Tim Morse was named as Interim CEO of the company.

[32] Bartz received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in 2001,[33] which spans more than 140 cities and 50 countries worldwide.