Broadcom CEO Hock Tan Joins Meta Board of Directors

<p>Meta announced that Hock E&period; Tan &&num;8212&semi; President and CEO of Broadcom &&num;8212&semi; and John Arnold have been elected to the company’s board of directors&comma; effective immediately&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;<strong>Photo above<&sol;strong>&colon; Hock Tan &lpar;left&rpar; and John Arnold&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mark Zuckerberg&comma; Founder and CEO of Meta&comma; said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m excited to share that Hock Tan and John Arnold are joining Meta’s board of directors&period; As we focus on building AGI&comma; having directors with deep expertise in silicon and energy infrastructure will help us execute our long term vision&period;” <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am pleased to join the Meta Board and contribute to achieving the company’s vision&comma;” said Tan&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Meta has an incredible role to play in the next-generation of computing as it evolves its platform and apps offerings for the future&period; I look forward to working with Mark&comma; the broader team and the other Board members on Meta’s technology and business journey&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I look forward to being a part of Meta’s board&comma; and to contributing my insights as we work together in our collective responsibility to Meta’s users and the wider community&comma;” said Arnold&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hock Tan has served as Broadcom’s President &&num;038&semi; CEO and a member of the Board of Directors since March 2006&period; From September 2005 to January 2008&comma; he served as chairman of the board of Integrated Device Technology&period; Prior to becoming chairman of IDT&comma; Mr&period; Tan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems from June 1999 to September 2005&period; Prior to ICS&comma; Mr&period; Tan was Vice President of Finance with Commodore International from 1992 to 1994&comma; and previously held senior management positions with PepsiCo and General Motors&period; Mr&period; Tan served as managing director of Pacven Investment&comma; a venture capital fund in Singapore&comma; from 1988 to 1992&comma; and served as managing director for Hume Industries in Malaysia from 1983 to 1988&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>John Arnold is co-founder and co-chair of Arnold Ventures&period; Arnold Ventures seeks to tackle some of the most pressing problems in the United States by applying evidence-based solutions to improve outcomes in public systems&comma; including health care&comma; education&comma; criminal justice&comma; infrastructure&comma; and public finance&period; Mr&period; Arnold is co-founder and chairman of Grid United&comma; a developer of interregional&comma; high-voltage transmission projects with a mission to make America’s power grid more reliable&comma; resilient&comma; and efficient&period; Mr&period; Arnold is founder of Centaurus Capital&comma; a family office investment fund focused on the energy industry&period; Previously&comma; Mr&period; Arnold served as founder and CEO of Centaurus Energy&comma; a multi-billion-dollar energy commodity hedge fund that he founded after overseeing trading of natural gas derivatives at Enron Corp&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meta’s current board members are&colon; Mark Zuckerberg&semi; Peggy Alford&comma; former Executive Vice President&comma; Global Sales&comma; PayPal Holdings&comma; Inc&period;&semi; Marc L&period; Andreessen&comma; Andreessen Horowitz&semi; John Arnold&comma; Co-Founder&comma; Arnold Ventures&semi; Drew Houston&comma; Co-Founder and CEO&comma; Dropbox&comma; Inc&period;&semi; Nancy Killefer&comma; Retired Senior Partner&comma; McKinsey &&num;038&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; former Chief Operating Officer&comma; Meta&semi; Hock E&period; Tan&comma; President and CEO&comma; Broadcom Inc&period;&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;

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