Doordash CEO Joins Facebook Board of Directors

<p>Meta&comma; the company formerly known as Facebook&comma; announced that Tony Xu &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; co-founder and CEO of DoorDash&comma; Inc&period;&comma; has been elected to the company’s board of directors&comma; effective immediately&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DoorDash is the nation&&num;8217&semi;s leading food delivery service with over 3 million drivers &&num;8212&semi; also known as dashers &&num;8212&semi; picking up and delivering from restaurants&comma; convenience stores&comma; drug stores&comma; supermarkets and other retailers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mark Zuckerberg&comma; founder and CEO of Meta&comma; said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tony has built a great service for millions of people to get food and more from hundreds of thousands of restaurants and small businesses&period; I’ve always thought it’s important to have great tech leaders on our board&comma; and Tony has direct experience both running a tech company and solving complex challenges in commerce&period; I look forward to learning from his perspective as we build towards the metaverse&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Facebook changed its company name to Meta last October as it focuses on building the metaverse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Millions of local merchants use Meta’s tools to grow and run their businesses every month&period; I look forward to working with the board as the company enters the next stage of its journey&comma;” said Xu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Xu has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of DoorDash&comma; Inc&period; since May 2013&period; He was appointed DoorDash’s board chair in November 2020&period; Xu holds a B&period;S&period; in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California&comma; Berkeley and an M&period;B&period;A&period; from the Stanford Graduate School of Business&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meta’s current board members are&colon; Mark Zuckerberg&semi; Peggy Alford&comma; Executive Vice President&comma; Global Sales&comma; PayPal Holdings&comma; Inc&period;&semi; Marc L&period; Andreessen&comma; Andreessen Horowitz&semi; Drew Houston&comma; Co-Founder and CEO&comma; Dropbox&comma; Inc&period;&semi; Nancy Killefer&comma; Retired Senior Partner&comma; McKinsey &amp&semi; Company&semi; Robert M&period; Kimmitt&comma; Meta’s Lead Independent Director and Senior International Counsel at WilmerHale LLP&semi; Sheryl K&period; Sandberg&comma; Chief Operating Officer&comma; Meta&semi; Peter A&period; Thiel&comma; Founders Fund&semi; Tracey T&period; Travis&comma; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer&comma; The Estée Lauder Companies&comma; Inc&period;&semi; and Tony Xu&comma; Co-Founder and CEO&comma; DoorDash&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;