Meet Dina McCormick, whom Zuckerberg asked to trade her Meta board seat for a job
Born in Cairo, Egypt and raised in Texas, Dina Powell McCormick gave up her Meta board seat last December after Mark Zuckerberg asked her to take an operating job instead. Nine months on, the Goldman Sachs veteran and former deputy national security adviser is president, vice chairman and co-leader of Meta Compute, handling the company's hardest legal, political and financial problems as its 2026…
Dina Powell McCormick, a Meta board member who was offered a job instead of a board seat, has become one of the company's top leaders. She joined Meta's board in December 2021 and promptly accepted Zuckerberg's offer to leave the board and take on a role in Meta Compute, the division responsible for building and monetising the infrastructure behind Meta's artificial intelligence push. Nine months later, she has become the individual Zuckerberg and his top deputies turn to for Meta's most challenging problems.
Powell McCormick's background is diverse, stemming from a state senate internship in Texas to working for Goldman Sachs and the White House under Condoleezza Rice. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2007, eventually becoming a partner and leading several programmes such as 10,000 Small Businesses and 10,000 Women. In 2017, she returned to Washington as deputy national security adviser for strategy, focusing on West Asia, and was the only woman present during Trump's meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Salman.
In her current role, Powell McCormick is responsible for a broad range of issues, including Meta's legal and reputational challenges. These include a $18 billion settlement with state attorneys general over children's safety on Instagram and Facebook, as well as Meta's ongoing battles with the FTC over the Instagram and WhatsApp antitrust case and a youth-addiction verdict related to social media design.
She has also appeared at various important events, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos and a trip to China with President Donald Trump.
Powell McCormick's approach leans towards empowering users rather than focusing on data centers. She emphasizes that Meta's AI tools aim to benefit individuals like small-business owners, welders, and creators, while also addressing the fact that women are adopting AI more slowly than men. Zuckerberg, 42, remains at Meta's Menlo Park headquarters with the researchers, while Powell McCormick, 53, manages the company's other operations.
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