Meta Platforms Org chart
This Meta Platforms org chart highlights the company’s organizational structure and leadership team, including key executives such as Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Chairman & CEO) , Chris Cox (CPO) , and Javier Olivan (COO) . It provides a clear overview of the leadership team’s roles and how they work together to achieve organizational goals and ensure effective management across all functions.
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Meta Platforms Leadership Team
Executives
Profile Summary
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Chairman & CEO
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.
Chris Cox
CPO
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.
Javier Olivan
COO
Javier Olivan is chief operating officer at Meta, where he oversees the firm’s business teams, as well as the infrastructure and central products for the company’s family of apps. He joined the company then called Facebook in 2007 and previously served as Meta’s chief growth officer. Prior to Meta, Javier was a product manager at Siemens Mobile, where he led a cross-functional team charged with the development and market launch of handset devices. Javier holds a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University and master’s degrees in both electrical and industrial engineering from the University of Navarra. He sits on the board of Endeavor, a nonprofit supporting the global entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
Siemens
Mercado Libre
The Aspen Institute
Andrew Bosworth
CTO
Andrew Bosworth — or Boz, as most people know him — is the CTO of Meta, leading the Reality Labs team. Andrew graduated from Harvard in 2004 before working as a developer on Microsoft Visio for almost two years. He joined Mark Zuckerberg at what was then called Facebook in January of 2006 where he created News Feed and many early anti-abuse systems, some of which are still in production. After working briefly on optimizing site speed and reliability, Andrew established and ran the company’s six-week bootcamp program designed to help grow the engineering team and maintain its culture. He then led the integration of the Messages and Chat products while improving stability, followed by tenures leading the Groups, Messenger and Video Calling teams. At various times, he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, Mobile Monetization and Feed Ads. Most recently, he served as the VP of Ads and Business Platform where he led engineering, product, research, analytics, and design. In 2017, he created the company’s AR/VR organization, now called Reality Labs. Andrew leads Meta’s efforts in AR, VR, AI and consumer hardware across Quest, Portal, Ray-Ban Stories and more.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
Vector Marketing
Susan Li
CFO
Susan Li is chief financial officer at Meta, where she leads the finance and facilities teams. Prior to becoming CFO, Susan served as the company’s vice president of finance and led the teams focused on finance, business planning and treasury. She joined the company, then called Facebook, in 2008. Previously she was an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. Susan holds a B.A. and B.S. from Stanford University. Susan serves on the Board of Alaska Air Group.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
Alaska Air Group
David Wehner
Chief Strategy Officer
Dave Wehner is chief strategy officer of Meta. Previously, Dave was Meta’s chief financial officer, and before that he held the position of vice president of corporate finance and business planning. Prior to joining Meta, Dave served as chief financial officer of Zynga Inc. Before Zynga, Dave was a managing director at Allen & Company, an investment bank focused on media and technology. Dave holds a B.S. in chemistry from Georgetown University, and a M.S. in applied physics from Stanford University.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
Zynga
Stubhub
Jennifer Newstead
Chief Legal Officer
Jennifer G. Newstead is chief legal officer at Meta, formerly Facebook, overseeing all global legal and corporate governance matters on behalf of the company. Prior to joining Meta in 2019, Jennifer served in senior roles in government, most recently as the Senate-confirmed legal adviser of the US Department of State, advising on issues of domestic and international law affecting the conduct of US foreign relations. Previously, she served as general counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and as a principal deputy assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice. In the private sector, Jennifer spent twelve years as a partner in a global law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, advising technology, media, and financial services firms on litigation and regulatory matters. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 and from Yale Law School in 1994. Jennifer clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Laurence Silberman of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. She previously served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Joel Kaplan
President, Global Affairs
Joel David Kaplan formerly served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for U.S. President George W. Bush.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
Energy Future Holdings
Mike Schroepfer
Senior Fellow
Mike Schroepfer is Meta’s first Senior Fellow, focused on supporting the company’s strategic technology priorities, including its investments in artificial intelligence and development of technical talent. From 2013 to 2022, he served as Meta’s Chief Technology Officer. Before Meta, Mike was vice president of engineering at Mozilla Corporation. He led the global and open product development process behind Firefox. Prior to that he was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, which acquired his company, CenterRun. He began his career working at startups including a digital effects company where he developed software used in major motion pictures. Mike holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
Ancestry
Wealthfront
Mozilla
Andrea Besmehn
Executive Assistant to the CEO
Andrea Besmehn is the executive Assistant to the CEO of Meta.
Ahmad Al-Dahle
VP & Head of GenAI
Ahmad Al-Dahle is VP & Head of GenAI at Meta Platforms.
Maxine Williams
VP Accessibility And Engagement
Maxine Williams is the chief diversity officer at Meta, formerly Facebook, and she serves as a member of Meta’s most senior executive leadership team under the CEO. Maxine’s team works to increase cognitive diversity — different ways of thinking based on different backgrounds, experiences and information — of all Meta teams and integrate diverse perspectives into policy and product development. Maxine and her team also develop strategies to attract, retain and support the growth of underrepresented people at the company. Prior to Meta, Maxine served as the director of diversity for a global law firm. She has worked as an attorney in criminal, civil and industrial courts in her native Trinidad and Tobago, and in the UK at the Privy Council. Maxine has also worked with multiple international organizations on development and human rights issues and had a career as a broadcast journalist, actress and on-air presenter. Maxine is an independent director on the board of the publicly traded Massy Group of Companies. She graduated from Yale University before receiving her law degree with first class honors from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
The University of the West Indies
White & Case
Janelle Gale
VP, HR
Janelle Gale is the current Vice President of Human Resources at Meta. Janelle has over fifteen years of experience in Human Resources, including roles at Levi Strauss & Co. and IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP). Janelle began their career at IBM Business Consulting Services in 1998 as a consultant. In this role, they advised global Fortune 500 companies on strategic organization topics such as organization design, change management, and program office teams. In 2001, Janelle was promoted to Principal Consultant and oversaw the implementation of new compensation, talent acquisition, and learning and development processes and programs. In 2003, Janelle left IBM to join Levi Strauss & Co. as a Senior Director of Human Resources for the Levi's Brand. In this role, they were responsible for setting and executing the talent and organization strategy and annual plans for the global Levi's brand with employees in 5 international locations. Janelle also served as a Senior Director of Human Resources for the Breakthrough Strategy Team from 2009 to 2010 before being promoted to Acting Vice President of Human Resources for the Levi's Brand in 2010. Janelle remained in this role until 2012 when they left Levi Strauss & Co. to join Meta as their Vice President of Human Resources. Janelle Gale completed their B.S. in Psychology at the University of Southern California and their Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. Their manager is Lori Goler, Head of People. They work with Miranda Kalinowski - Global Head of Recruitment, Maxine Williams - Chief Diversity Officer.
Previous or Current Companies (Board, Advisor, Employer)
IBM
Levi Strauss & Co
Alexandr Wang
Head of Superintelligence Labs
Alexandr Wang is Head of Superintelligence Labs at Meta Platforms.
