Dina Powell McCormick, a former senior official in Donald Trump’s first administration, is joining Meta as president and vice-chair focused on its AI infrastructure investments.
Powell McCormick, who spent 16 years in senior roles at Goldman Sachs, is joining the tech giant’s management team after serving on its board of directors last year. She was deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term and also served in George W Bush’s administration.
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Powell McCormick would work alongside existing executives Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross on a new initiative called “Meta Compute” focused on building “hundreds of gigawatts” of AI infrastructure over the coming decades.