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Do you
know
Sheryl
Sandberg?
Ms. Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook
since 2008. She was born in August 1969 at Washington D.C
and she is 50 years old. She is an American social media execu-
tive, author, and billionaire. She is the Chief Operating Officer
(COO) of Facebook and founder of Leanin.org. In June 2012, she
was elected to Facebook’s board by the existing board members,
becoming the first woman to serve on its board. Before she joined
Facebook as its COO, Sandberg was vice president of global on-
line sales and operations at Google, and was involved in launching
Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org. Before Google, Sandberg
served as chief of staff for United States Secretary of the Treasury
Lawrence Summers.
She led social media from a $56 million loss to
$22.1 billion in profits in 2018. Her focus
on positioning Facebook as a platform
for small business advertising helped
increase ad revenue by 38% during
2018. She has defended Facebook
in the wake of the Cambridge
Analytical scandal and ongoing
data privacy risks for its 2 bil-
lion users for the past two years.
Despite the controversy, Zuck-
erberg has pledged his confi-
dence in Sandberg’s leader-
ship and future at Facebook.
In 2012, she was named in
the Time 100, an annual list of
the most influential people in the
world according to Time magazine.
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