Photographed with twin daughters Taylor and Kennedy, age 9, and dogs Thumper and Lola at her home in Montclair, N.J.
VP, Global marketing solutions, Facebook
Everson was nine months into a new stint as global head of ad sales at Microsoft when Sheryl Sandberg came calling. Would she leave to take a similar role at Facebook? Everson jumped. She now runs the social-networking site's ad business from New York. Her secret? Don't sweat the small stuff. "My twins were born at 27 weeks and had a 30% chance of survival," she says. "When you go through something like that, you try to have a healthy perspective on life."
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