Former Donald Trump adviser Dina Powell McCormick joins Meta: Read company’s welcome note and what Mark Zuckerberg said

Facebook-parent company Meta has announced that Dina Powell McCormick has joined its executive leadership team as President and Vice Chairman. Reporting directly to Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Powell McCormick will oversee Meta’s overall strategy and execution as company aims to bolster its ‘Superintelligence’ team. She is expected to play a critical role in managing the company’s multi-billion-dollar investments in data centres, energy systems and global connectivity.Dina has more than 25 years of experience in global finance, national security and economic development. She spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs as a partner in senior leadership roles and spearheaded some of the firm’s most influential and successful economic development initiatives. Dina has also served two US presidents. She was Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump and served as a Senior White House Advisor and Assistant Secretary of State for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice under President George W. Bush. Today we’re announcing Dina Powell McCormick is joining Meta as President and Vice Chairman.Dina served as an invaluable member of Meta’s Board of Directors, and she’s been deeply engaged as we’ve accelerated our pursuit of frontier AI and personal superintelligence.As we scale, the complexity of what we’re building is changing. Meta is creating the massive physical and financial model that will power the next decade of computing — including data centers, energy systems, and global connectivity at an unprecedented scale.Dina will be a member of Meta’s management team, helping guide the company’s overall strategy and execution. She will partner with the compute and infrastructure teams to ensure our multi-billion-dollar investments execute against our goals and drive positive economic impact in the communities where we operate around the world. And, she will drive an effort to build new strategic capital partnerships and find innovative ways to expand our long-term investment capacity.“Dina’s experience at the highest levels of global finance, combined with her deep relationships around the world, makes her uniquely suited to help Meta manage this next phase of growth as the company’s President and Vice Chairman,” said Zuckerberg.