Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, which he originally founded as Facebook in 2004. Mark is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He is also the co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is leveraging technology to help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges – from eradicating disease, to improving education, to reforming the criminal justice system. Mark studied computer science at Harvard University before moving to Palo Alto, California in 2004.
Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Meta, overseeing the company’s business operations and serving on its board of directors. Before joining the company then called Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank.
Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School.
Sheryl is the co-author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy with Wharton professor and bestselling author Adam Grant. She is also the author of the bestsellers Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and Lean In for Graduates. She is the founder of the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to build a more equal and resilient world through three key initiatives, Lean In, Option B, and the Dave Goldberg Scholarship Program. Sheryl also serves on the boards of Women for Women International, ONE, and Momentive.
Sheryl lives in Menlo Park, California, with her fiancé and their five children.
Sir Nick Clegg is President, Global Affairs at Meta. He joined the company, then called Facebook, in 2018 after almost two decades in British and European public life. Prior to being elected to the UK Parliament in 2005, he worked in the European Commission and served for five years as a member of the European Parliament. He became leader of the Liberal Democrat party in 2007 and served as Deputy Prime Minister in the UK’s first coalition government since the war, from 2010 to 2015. He has written two best-selling books, Politics: Between the Extremes and How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again).
Dave Wehner is chief financial officer of Meta, formerly Facebook, where he leads the finance, facilities and information technology teams. Prior to becoming CFO in June 2014, Dave served as the company’s vice president of Corporate Finance and Business Planning. From 2010 through 2012, Dave served as CFO of Zynga Inc. Before Zynga, Dave was a managing director at Allen & Company, an investment bank focused on media and technology, which he joined in 2001.
Dave holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Georgetown University, and a M.S. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
Chris Cox is chief product officer at Meta, leading its apps and technologies. After earning his bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University in 2004, Chris joined Meta, then called Facebook, in 2005 as a software engineer and helped build the first versions of key Facebook features, including News Feed. He then became director of human resources, setting the tone for the company’s culture. In 2008, he became vice president of product, building out the initial product management and design teams, before being promoted to chief product officer in 2014. From April 2019 through May 2020, Chris spent time researching and pursuing new projects focused on climate. He returned to the company in June 2020.