This time, Mehta appointed the UFC CEO, who helped President-elect Donald Trump’s election, to the board of directors. Prior to now few weeks, they’ve expressed their intention to cooperate with the brand new administration.
Meta announced on the sixth (local time) that it had added three people to its board of directors, including UFC President and CEO Dana White, John Elkann, CEO of European investment company Exor, and technology investor and entrepreneur Charlie Songhurst.
“They are going to add deep expertise and perspectives that can help us address the tremendous opportunity in artificial intelligence (AI), wearables and the long run of human connectivity,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Amongst them, UFC CEO White is referred to as one in all the representative figures who helped President-elect Trump’s election campaign. He also appeared in President-elect Trump’s first TikTok video and in addition spoke on the Republican National Convention and Trump’s campaign rally.
As well as, he is understood to be near CEO Zuckerberg. CEO Zuckerberg, who is understood to be a martial arts enthusiast, also posted a photograph of the 2 on Instagram. It is understood that CEO White also asked for advice on introducing AI technology into the UFC rating system.
As well as, CEO Elkann is the chairman of Ferrari and Stellantis. Songhurst, who served as general manager at Microsoft, has been participating in Meta’s product advisory committee since last yr.
Consequently, Meta’s board of directors increased to 13 members, including Chairman and CEO Zuckerberg. Other celebrities include a16z co-founder Mark Andreessen, DoorDash CEO Tony Shea, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, and Broadcom President Hok Tan.
Moreover, this move follows CEO Zuckerberg’s meeting with President-elect Trump and donating $1 million to the inauguration ceremony, and the appointment of Republican Joel Kaplan as head of world policy last week.
In this manner, CEO Zuckerberg has escaped his hostile relationship with President-elect Trump and is now considered the top of Big Tech who’s most friendly to the incoming administration.
He suffered from problems with minors and pressure to censor content throughout the Biden administration, and for that reason, he declared political neutrality in last yr’s presidential election.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
