Meta has promoted Dina Powell McCormick from board member to President and Vice Chairman, signaling a shift in how the company plans to execute its most ambitious infrastructure projects.
Powell McCormick spent 16 years as a partner at Goldman Sachs, where she led the firm's Global Sovereign Investment Banking business and spearheaded economic development programs including 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses. She's also served as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Trump and as a senior State Department official. Most recently, she was president and head of global client services at BDT & MSD Partners, a firm focused on ultra-high-net-worth investment.
Her appointment reflects Meta's recognition that scaling AI and building the physical infrastructure to support it requires a different kind of leadership. The company is now managing multi-billion-dollar investments in data centers, energy systems, and global connectivity infrastructure — projects that demand the kind of capital partnerships and geopolitical relationships Powell McCormick has spent decades cultivating.
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Start Your News Detox"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," Mark Zuckerberg said in the announcement.
In her new role, Powell McCormick will oversee Meta's overall strategy alongside its management team, working directly with compute and infrastructure teams to ensure the company's investments deliver both technical results and economic benefits to the communities where it operates. She'll also focus on building strategic capital partnerships and finding new ways to expand Meta's long-term investment capacity — a critical task as the company pursues what it calls "frontier AI" and personal superintelligence.
The promotion signals that Meta sees its infrastructure challenge less as a pure engineering problem and more as a complex financial and geopolitical one. Data centers need power, power needs partnerships with governments and energy providers, and those relationships require someone who speaks both the language of high finance and international diplomacy. Powell McCormick's 25-year track record suggests Meta believes it's found that person.
