Facebook Hires Top State Department Lawyer and Bill Gates's Former PR Chief
April 22 2019 - 3:29PM
Dow Jones News
By Jeff Horwitz
Facebook Inc. is bringing on a new top lawyer and a
communications boss to handle the mounting regulatory and
public-relations issues facing the social-media giant.
The company named Jennifer Newstead as its general counsel on
Monday, putting a longtime Washington attorney in charge of its
legal affairs at a time when it is increasingly engaged with
regulators around the world about how best to police social
media.
The company separately named John Pinette, who previously
advised Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates among other jobs, to
be the new vice president of global communications.
The moves help restock Facebook's leadership in the levels below
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl
Sandberg. A number of senior officials and department heads have
left Facebook over the past year, an unusual rate of turnover after
the executive team was relatively stable for most of its tenure as
a public company.
Facebook in October hired former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick
Clegg to be its global head of policy and communications.
Write to Jeff Horwitz at jeff.horwitz@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 22, 2019 16:14 ET (20:14 GMT)
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