Meta names Alex Schultz first chief data officer

Reuters

Wed, July 1, 2026 astatine 11:27 AM CDT 1 min read

July 1 (Reuters) - Meta said connected Wednesday its main selling serviceman Alex Schultz volition go the ‌company's archetypal main information officer, to amended negociate ‌AI analytics globally.

The Facebook-parent besides promoted its vice president of user ​marketing and growth, Denise Moreno, to selling chief.

• "My absorption successful this caller relation volition beryllium helping alteration however Meta learns and makes decisions successful the AI era," Schultz ‌said successful a LinkedIn ⁠post.

• The enactment changes awesome astatine Meta's determination to deepen its absorption connected data-driven ⁠decision-making and AI integration crossed its operations.

• Schultz joined the institution successful 2007 and held responsibilities crossed assorted domains ​like ​developing Meta's marque strategy and ​WhatsApp privateness campaigns, according ‌to his LinkedIn page.

• Shares of Meta were up 10% aft Bloomberg News reported earlier connected Wednesday that the institution is gathering a unreality concern to merchantability excess AI computing capacity.

• A 17-year seasoned astatine Meta, ‌Moreno began her vocation managing email ​marketing and maturation experiments, she ​said successful a ​separate post.

• Axios archetypal reported astir Meta ‌naming Schultz arsenic its main ​data serviceman and ​elevating Moreno arsenic CMO.

• Meta is projected to walk arsenic overmuch arsenic $145 cardinal connected AI infrastructure this ​year, a ‌significant information of Big Tech's much than $700 cardinal outlay ​on the technology.

(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh successful ​Bengaluru; Editing by Joyjeet Das)