Chamath Palihapitiya

Vice president of product marketing and operations at Facebook and is responsible for overseeing new monetization and advertising products, all business aspects of Facebook Platform, fbFund, customer operations, corporate communications, marketing, privacy and public policy.

Palihapitiya joined Facebook from The Mayfield Fund, a leading venture capital firm in Silicon Valley where he was focused on consumer Internet, advertising and media investments. Prior to Mayfield, he spent five years with AOL, most recently as vice president and general manager of AIM and ICQ, with complete responsibility and oversight of two of the biggest and most popular
brands on the Internet.

Palihapitiya began his career as a derivatives trader before leaving finance to work for Internet music pioneers Spinner.com and Winamp. He grew up in Canada and graduated First Class Honors in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo.