The Profile: Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of Bumble

The 31-year-old has just become the youngest female chief executive ever to take a major US company public

In brief:

Name: Whitney Wolfe Herd

Age: 31

Appearance: blonde, often resplendent in yellow

Newsworthiness: the head of dating app Bumble is the youngest female chief executive ever to take a major US company public, and also the youngest self-made female billionaire

In depth:

It was the summer of 2014 when Whitney Wolfe Herd received a message from her father, asking if allegations being made about her in an online article were true.

“It was ...