From left, U.S. President Donald Trump, Senator Dave McCormick, his spouse Dina Powell McCormick and Elon Musk monitor the lads’s NCAA wrestling pageant on the Wells Fargo Middle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 22, 2025.
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Meta on Friday introduced that it was once increasing its board of administrators with two pristine individuals, together with Dina Powell McCormick, part of President Donald Trump’s first management.
Powell McCormick served as a deputy nationwide safety marketing consultant to Trump from 2017 to 2018. She could also be married to Sen. Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania who took place of work in January.
“He’s a good man,” Trump stated of McCormick in an endorsement terminating generation, in line with the Associated Press. Powell McCormick and her husband have been photographed in March beside Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a flow marketing consultant to the president, at a wrestling championship fit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Moreover, Powell McCormick was once laborer Secretary of Condition below Condoleezza Rice in President George W. Bush’s management.
But even so her political background, Powell McCormick is vice chair, president and head of world shopper services and products at BDT & MSD Companions. That corporate was once based in 2023 when the service provider reserve BDT mixed with Michael Dell’s funding company MSD. Powell McCormick arrived on the company then 16 years at Goldman Sachs, the place she were a spouse.
Her appointment represents any other signal of Meta’s alignment with Republicans following Trump’s go back to the White Space.
In January, the corporate introduced a shift clear of fact-checking and stated it was once bringing Trump’s buddy Dana White, CEO of Terminating Combating Championship, onto the board. The adjustments observe Trump dubbing the corporate in the back of Fb and Instagram “the enemy of the people” on CNBC terminating generation.
Additionally on Friday, Meta stated Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of bills startup Stripe, was once additionally elected to the board. Stripe was once valued at $65 billion in a affectionate trade in terminating generation.
“Patrick and Dina bring a lot of experience supporting businesses and entrepreneurs to our board,” Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in a statement.
Zuckerberg visited the White Space terminating month, then attending Trump’s starting in Washington in January. Politico terminating month reported that the Meto CEO paid $23 million in money for a mansion within the folk’s capital.
Powell McCormick and Collison formally develop into administrators on April 15, Meta stated.
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