Dana White Is Joining Meta’s Board Of Directors

Meta is adding 3 caller group to its committee of directors, and 1 of them is UFC president and CEO Dana White, nan institution announced connected Monday. Zuckerberg is simply a instrumentality of MMA who has medaled successful Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments and tore his ACL successful a sparring normal a mini complete a twelvemonth ago.

As shown above, nan Meta CEO has attended respective UFC fights complete nan past less years and shared a image pinch White connected Instagram successful February, arsenic noted by Bloomberg. White too has a individual narration pinch President-elect Donald Trump, who Zuckerberg met pinch astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice aft Trump threatened “if [Zuckerberg] does point forbidden this clip he will locomotion nan remainder of his life successful prison—as will others who cheat successful nan 2024 Presidential Election” successful a book released past September.

In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg said of White, “I’ve admired him arsenic an entrepreneur and his expertise to build specified a beloved brand.”

White maintained powerfulness of that marque aft a New Year’s Eve incident 2 years agone wherever he was captured connected camera slapping his female successful a nightclub, arsenic reported by The Athletic. Afterward, White said, “There’s nary defense for this and group should not beryllium defending maine complete this constituent nary matter what... I personification to locomotion astir for nevertheless agelong I unrecorded — 10.4 years aliases different 25 years — and this is really I’m branded now.”

John Elkann, CEO of European finance institution Exor (which has stakes successful companies for illustration Ferrari and Stellantis), and Charlie Songhurst, a exertion investor and erstwhile Microsoft executive, will beryllium joining Meta’s committee arsenic well.

Meta now has 13 group connected its board. “We personification monolithic opportunities up successful AI, wearables, and nan early of societal media, and our committee will thief america execute our vision,” Zuckerberg says.