Friday, May 8, 2009

Blue Nile's Marianne Marck finds niche in databases and diamonds

Marianne Marck has been immersed in everything from databases to online video in her wide-ranging technology career. But it all started with some good old-fashioned metallurgical chemistry.

Marck spent part of her formative years in the lab of her dad, chemist Paul Kruesi, a noted inventor in areas such as metal refining and recycling. Marck was influenced by her dad’s scientific leanings, but she ultimately decided not to follow directly in his footsteps.

“You’d have to sit there and something would have to be stirred for three hours,” Marck said in a recent interview, laughing at the memory. “I wouldn’t say I found chemistry to be incredibly exciting.”

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