Education
She graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a bachelor"s degree in English and earned her Master of Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business three years later.
She graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a bachelor"s degree in English and earned her Master of Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business three years later.
From 1987 until 1994, Roizen also served on the board of directors of the Software Publishers Association and was its president from 1988 to 1990. From 1996 to 1997, Roizen was Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations for Apple Computer. She also served on the board of Great Plains Software from 1997 until its acquisition by Microsoft in 2001.
Roizen also served as the Public Governor of the Pacific Exchange and on the executive committee of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
In June 2009, Roizen was elected to the Board of Directors of TiVo (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation:TIVO), and in September, 2012, she was elected to the board of DMGT (London School of Economics:DMGT), the London-based global media and information company which owns the Daily Mail and Mail Online. At the time she was elected, she became the first female director in the company"s 116 year history.
In 2010, Roizen was named a Lecturer and Entrepreneurship Educator at Stanford University, where she teaches the course "Spirit of Entrepreneurship" in the Mississippi&East (Engineering) department. She is known for speaking out against the harassment of women in technology.