Meta has appointed Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman, bringing a former White House adviser and long-time Wall Street executive into one of the most powerful roles at the company as it pours billions into artificial intelligence and global infrastructure.
The appointment places Powell McCormick on Meta’s management team, with direct responsibility for helping drive strategy and execution at a time when the company is expanding its data centres, energy systems and connectivity projects across several regions.
With this development, Meta is increasing its focus on capital, politics and scale as it pushes more into what it calls frontier AI and long-term computing bets.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and chief executive, described the decision regarding her financial and diplomatic reach. “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,” he said.
Powell McCormick, not new to Meta, previously sat on the company’s board and was involved as it enhanced work on advanced AI systems.
Her elevation comes as the cost and complexity of Meta’s vision peaks, with multi-billion-dollar investments now tied to physical assets and long-term financing rather than software alone.
Powell McCormick served as deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump and earlier worked under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during George W. Bush’s administration.
In the private sector, she spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs, where she was a partner, sat on the management committee and led global sovereign investment banking.
During that period, she helped drive initiatives such as 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses and One Million Black Women, programmes aimed at long-term economic growth.
Trump publicly welcomed the appointment, posting on Truth Social: “Congratulations to DINA POWELL MCCORMICK, WHO HAS JUST BEEN NAMED THE NEW PRESIDENT OF META. A great choice by Mark Z!!! She is a fantastic, and very talented, person, who served the Trump Administration with strength and distinction.”
Inside Meta, Powell McCormick is expected to work with infrastructure and compute teams, overseeing how large investments are deployed and how they affect host communities. She will also be tasked with building new capital partnerships to support the company’s expanding financial needs.
Just last week, Meta hired Curtis Joseph Mahoney, a former Microsoft legal executive who also served as a deputy US trade representative during Trump’s first term. Taken together, the hires point to a strategy of bringing in leaders with experience in the regulatory environment and complex global financing.
Powell McCormick’s mix of government service and banking experience gives the company a steady hand as it moves further into capital-heavy territory.
