Key Points
- Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick as its new president and vice chairman.
- Powell McCormick previously served as deputy national security advisor to former President Donald Trump and held several senior government roles.
- She will join Meta’s management team and help shape the company’s strategy and execution going forward.
Meta shares (META) were slightly higher in after-hours trading following the announcement.
Meta said Monday it has appointed Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman, adding a well-connected political and finance veteran to its top leadership ranks.
Powell McCormick briefly joined Meta’s board in April but stepped down in December, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She now returns in an executive role with far broader responsibilities.
In her new position, Meta said Powell McCormick will be part of the company’s management team and will help guide overall strategy and execution.
“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,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Before joining Meta, Powell McCormick served as deputy national security advisor during the Trump administration. She also worked under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in President George W. Bush’s White House.
She is the second former Trump administration official Meta has hired in recent weeks. Earlier this month, the company named Curtis Joseph Mahoney as its new chief legal officer. Mahoney previously served as a deputy U.S. trade representative during Trump’s first term.
Trump publicly praised the appointment on Monday, posting on his social media platform Truth Social that Powell McCormick was “a fantastic, and very talented, person” who served his administration “with strength and distinction.”
Outside of government, Powell McCormick spent 16 years in senior leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and most recently worked as an executive at BDT & MSD Partners.
The leadership announcement came just hours before Zuckerberg revealed a major new artificial intelligence infrastructure push called Meta Compute. The company has invested billions of dollars in data center expansion as it competes with AI heavyweights like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
“Meta is planning to build tens of gigawatts this decade, and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Threads. He added that how Meta engineers, invests in, and partners on infrastructure will become a key strategic advantage.
Zuckerberg said the initiative will be led by Santosh Janardhan, who oversees Meta’s global data center operations, and Daniel Gross, who will head a new group focused on long-term capacity planning.
Both executives will work closely with Powell McCormick, who will play a central role in partnering with governments and sovereign entities to help build, deploy, invest in, and finance Meta’s growing infrastructure footprint.
