Meta hires former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair

In Brief

Meta announced connected Monday that it has appointed erstwhile Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick arsenic president and vice president of the company. Meta said Powell McCormick volition beryllium a subordinate of the company’s absorption squad and volition assistance usher Meta’s wide strategy and execution.

“Dina’s acquisition astatine the highest levels of planetary finance, combined with her heavy relationships astir the world, makes her uniquely suited to assistance Meta negociate this adjacent signifier of maturation arsenic the company’s President and Vice Chairman,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said successful a blog post.

Before joining Meta, Powell McCormick was moving arsenic lawman nationalist information advisor to President Donald Trump.

Trump celebrated the quality connected Truth Social successful a post reading: “Congratulations to DINA POWELL MCCORMICK, WHO HAS JUST BEEN NAMED THE NEW PRESIDENT OF META. A large prime by Mark Z!!! She is simply a fantastic, and precise talented, person, who served the Trump Administration with spot and distinction.”

Powell McCormick antecedently served nether Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the George W. Bush administration. She besides spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs as a partner in senior leadership roles.

Last week, Meta hired Curtis Joseph Mahoney, a erstwhile Microsoft ineligible enforcement who besides served arsenic a lawman U.S. commercialized typical during Trump’s archetypal term.

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