Dina Powell McCormick, vice seat of BDT and MSD Partners, astatine the Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) successful Doha, Qatar, connected Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
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Meta connected Monday announced it has appointed Dina Powell McCormick arsenic its president and vice chairman.
Powell McCormick joined Meta's committee successful April but resigned successful December, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In her caller role, Meta said Powell McCormick volition service arsenic a subordinate of the company's absorption squad and volition assistance usher its 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 statement.
Prior to joining Meta, Powell McCormick served arsenic lawman nationalist information advisor to President Donald Trump, and served nether Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice successful President George W. Bush's administration.
Powell McCormick is the 2nd erstwhile subordinate of the Trump medication that Meta has hired successful caller weeks.
The institution said earlier this period that it has hired a caller main ineligible officer, Curtis Joseph Mahoney, who antecedently served arsenic a lawman U.S. commercialized typical during Trump's archetypal term.
"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!," Trump wrote successful a post connected his societal media level Truth Social connected Monday.
Powell McCormick besides spent 16 years successful elder enactment roles astatine Goldman Sachs, and astir precocious acted arsenic an enforcement astatine BDT & MSD Partners.
Hours aft Meta announced Powell McCormick's role, Zuckerberg unveiled a caller artificial intelligence infrastructure inaugural astatine the institution called Meta Compute.
Meta has poured billions of dollars into datacenter buildouts successful caller years arsenic it races to support up with AI rivals similar Google, OpenAI and Anthropic.
"Meta is readying to physique tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts oregon much implicit time," Zuckerberg wrote successful a post connected Threads connected Monday. "How we engineer, invest, and spouse to physique this infrastructure volition go a strategical advantage."
Zuckerberg said the effort volition beryllium led by Santosh Janardhan, who builds and operates Meta's planetary datacenter fleet and network, and Daniel Gross, who volition pb a caller radical liable for semipermanent capableness strategy and planning.
Janardhan and Gross volition enactment intimately with Powell McCormick, who volition assistance spouse with "governments and sovereigns to build, deploy, put in, and concern Meta's infrastructure," Zuckerberg said.
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