Meta on Monday named former Trump administration official Dina Powell McCormick as its president and vice chairman, boosting the company’s lobbying efforts in the U.S. capital.
President Donald Trump congratulated Powell McCormick in a post on his Truth Social account minutes after the company announced her promotion. She is a “fantastic, and very talented, person” who served his administration with “strength and distinction,” he said.
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“Dina’s experience at the highest levels of global finance, combined with her deep relationships around the world, makes her uniquely suited to help Meta manage this next phase of growth as the company’s President and Vice Chairman,” said Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta also stated that Powell McCormick will be a member of Meta’s management team, helping guide the company’s overall strategy and execution. “She will partner with the compute and infrastructure teams to ensure our multi-billion-dollar investments execute against our goals and drive positive economic impact in the communities where we operate around the world. And, she will drive an effort to build new strategic capital partnerships and find innovative ways to expand our long-term investment capacity,” the company said.
According to a Meta blog force, Powell McCormick brings more than 25 years of experience at the highest levels of global finance, national security, and economic development. She spent 16 years in senior leadership roles in Goldman Sachs, and served as deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term, and as a senior White House adviser under former President George W. Bush.
This move comes amid a growing trend of tech companies cozying up to the Trump administration. Meta in particular has made a series of changes recently to align the company more closely with Trump.
Meta is accelerating investments in frontier AI and personal superintelligence, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seeking Trump’s support to build data centers and energy capacity for those projects.
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Zuckerberg, ahead of Trump’s second inauguration, visited him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Meta also made a number of moves that appeal to the Trump administration, including ending its U.S. fact checking program, elevating Republican Joe Kaplan as the company’s new chief global affairs officer, and ending its diversity programs.
Meta in early January hired former Trump trade adviser C.J. Mahoney to lead its legal team, replacing general counsel Jennifer Newstead, a former Trump administration official.