UFC president and CEO Dana White is now a part of the Meta Board of Administrators. White joins John Elkann and Charlie Songhurst as newly elected board members.
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Meta, stated, “Dana, John, and Charlie will add a depth of experience and perspective that can assist us deal with the huge alternatives forward with AI, wearables and the way forward for human connection.”
“I’ve by no means been inquisitive about becoming a member of a board of administrators till I acquired the provide to affix Meta’s board. I’m an enormous believer that social media and AI are the longer term,” stated Dana White, President and CEO of UFC by way of press launch. “I’m very excited to affix this unimaginable staff and to study extra about this enterprise from the within. There’s nothing I like greater than constructing manufacturers, and I look ahead to serving to take Meta to the subsequent degree.”
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John Elkann is CEO of Exor, one of many largest European funding corporations, managed by the Agnelli household. He’s additionally Government Chair of Ferrari and Stellantis. He started his skilled profession in 2001 at Basic Electrical as a member of the Company Audit Workers, with assignments in Asia, Europe and North America.
Charlie Songhurst is a know-how investor who at present invests in additional than 500 startups globally. He has intensive expertise throughout enterprise SaaS, AI and deep tech. He beforehand served as Basic Supervisor and Head of International Company Technique at Microsoft, targeted on partnerships and M&A.
Meta’s present board members are: Mark Zuckerberg; Peggy Alford, former Government Vice President, International Gross sales, PayPal Holdings, Inc.; Marc L. Andreessen, Andreessen Horowitz; John Arnold, Co-Founder, Arnold Ventures; John Elkann, CEO of Exor; Drew Houston, Co-Founder and CEO, Dropbox, Inc.; Nancy Killefer, Retired Senior Companion, McKinsey & Firm; Robert M. Kimmitt, Meta’s Lead Impartial Director and Senior Worldwide Counsel at WilmerHale LLP; Charlie Songhurst; Hock E. Tan, President and CEO, Broadcom Inc.; Tracey T. Travis, Government Vice President, Senior Adviser to the CEO, The Estée Lauder Corporations, Inc.; Dana White, President and CEO, Final Preventing Championship; and Tony Xu, Co-Founder and CEO, DoorDash, Inc.
