Meta Hires Two New Board of Directors

<p>Meta &&num;8212&semi; parent company of Facebook&comma; Instagram and WhatsApp &&num;8212&semi; announced that Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick have been elected to the company’s board of directors&comma; effective April 15&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mark Zuckerberg&comma; Founder and CEO of Meta&comma; said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Patrick and Dina bring a lot of experience supporting businesses and entrepreneurs to our board&period; Patrick is deeply committed to expanding economic opportunity&comma; and Dina has a long career advocating for economic development and supporting entrepreneurs&period; Their perspective will be extremely valuable to businesses that rely on our services to grow&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Between WhatsApp&comma; Instagram and Facebook&comma; Meta is one of the internet’s most important platforms for businesses&period; I look forward to helping them navigate the abundant opportunities of the coming years&comma;” said Patrick Collison&comma; Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m excited to bring my experience in finance&comma; government and economic development to support the people and entrepreneurs who use Meta’s services&comma;” said Dina Powell McCormick&comma; Vice Chair&comma; President &amp&semi; Head of Global Client Services at BDT &amp&semi; MSD Partners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Patrick Collison is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe&comma; a technology company that builds programmable financial services&comma; which he started with his brother John Collison in 2010&period; Mr&period; Collison is also a co-founder of the Arc Institute&comma; a biomedical research institute that is pioneering a new model for basic research&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dina Powell McCormick is currently Vice Chair&comma; President &amp&semi; Head of Global Client Services at BDT &amp&semi; MSD Partners&period; For over 25 years she has served at the highest levels of finance and in the U&period;S&period; government&period; Dina spent 16 years in senior leadership roles as a partner at Goldman Sachs including serving on the management committee&comma; running the firm’s Global Sovereign investment banking business and leading some of the largest and most successful economic development programs&comma; including 10&comma;000 Women&comma; 10&comma;000 Small Businesses and One Million Black Women&period; She also has served two presidents&comma; as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J&period; Trump and Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and Senior White House Advisor and as Assistant Secretary of State for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice under President George W&period; Bush&period; Dina is a <em>New York Times<&sol;em> best-selling author for <em>Who Believed in You&comma; the Power of Transformative Mentorship<&sol;em>&comma; a book she authored with her husband&comma; United States Senator from Pennsylvania David McCormick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>With the new additions&comma; Meta’s current board members are&colon;<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Mark Zuckerberg<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Peggy Alford&comma; former Executive Vice President&comma; Global Sales&comma; PayPal Holdings&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Marc L&period; Andreessen&comma; Co-founder and General Partner&comma; Andreessen Horowitz<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>John Arnold&comma; Co-Founder and Co-chair&comma; Arnold Ventures<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Patrick Collison&comma; Co-Founder and CEO&comma; Stripe&comma; Inc&period; &lpar;effective April 15&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>John Elkann&comma; CEO&comma; Exor N&period;V&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Drew Houston&comma; Co-Founder and CEO&comma; Dropbox&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Nancy Killefer&comma; retired Senior Partner&comma; McKinsey &amp&semi; Company<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Robert M&period; Kimmitt&comma; Meta’s Lead Independent Director and Senior International Counsel&comma; WilmerHale LLP<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Dina Powell McCormick&comma; Vice Chair&comma; President &amp&semi; Head of Global Client Services&comma; BDT &amp&semi; MSD Partners &lpar;effective April 15&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Charlie Songhurst&comma; Technology Investor<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Hock E&period; Tan&comma; President and CEO&comma; Broadcom Inc&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Tracey T&period; Travis&comma; Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor to the CEO&comma; The Estée Lauder Companies&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Dana White&comma; President and CEO&comma; Ultimate Fighting Championship<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Tony Xu&comma; Co-Founder and CEO&comma; DoorDash&comma; Inc&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;

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