David M. Wehner is the
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(CSO) of
Meta Platforms (known until 2021 as Facebook, Inc.).
Education
Wehner attended
Saint Louis Priory School and graduated in 1986. Wehner graduated from
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
with a
BS in
Chemistry, where he was an editor for ''
The Hoya''. He graduated from
Stanford University with an
MS in
Applied Physics
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"Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination ...
, where he was a
National Science Foundation
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fellow.
Career
Early in his career, Wehner worked at
Monitor Group
Monitor Deloitte is the multinational strategy consulting practice of Deloitte Consulting. Monitor Deloitte specializes in providing strategy consultation services to the senior management of major organizations and governments. It helps its clie ...
and
Hambrecht & Quist. Wehner worked at
Allen & Company for nearly a decade until 2010, when he became the CFO of
Zynga
Zynga Inc. () is an American developer running social video game services. It was founded in April 2007, with headquarters in San Mateo, California. The company primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Zynga states its missio ...
.
At these firms, he held
series 7 and
series 24 licenses.
Wehner joined
Facebook
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Mosk ...
in 2011 as VP of Corporate Finance and Business Planning.
Wehner succeeded
David Ebersman as CFO of
Facebook, Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc., (file no. 3835815) doing business as Meta and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns Facebook, Instagra ...
on June 1, 2014.
References
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American chief financial officers
Zynga people
Facebook employees
Georgetown College (Georgetown University) alumni
Living people
Stanford University alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of German descent