Dan Levy, at present the social media large’s vice chairman of enterprise messaging, mentioned in a publish to Meta’s inner social community on Monday that he needed to give attention to household after shedding a toddler to leukemia.
A veteran Meta promoting product government will depart the corporate in Might, in response to an inner announcement seen by Reuters, amid a months-long pruning of initiatives and employees that Chief Government Mark Zuckerberg has dubbed the “yr of effectivity.”
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Dan Levy, at present the social media large’s vice chairman of enterprise messaging, mentioned in a publish to Meta’s inner social community on Monday that he needed to give attention to household after shedding a toddler to leukemia.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed Levy’s departure and mentioned enterprise messaging would stay a strategic precedence and space of funding for the corporate this yr.
Levy didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Levy has been at Meta for 14 years. The enterprise messaging mission he heads has been flagged by Zuckerberg for progress potential, though he was changed final yr as general head of advert and enterprise merchandise.
Beforehand, Levy ran Meta’s advertisements and enterprise merchandise division, now referred to as Monetization. He was changed in that function final yr by John Hegeman, one other long-time government who had managed advertisements product below Levy and, in his new function, turned Levy’s boss.
That bigger unit oversaw Meta’s adaptation to Apple Inc’s iOS privateness adjustments in 2021, a pricey disruption that lower Meta’s entry to the precious consumer information round which it had constructed its focused promoting enterprise.
The division has tried to construct in-app commerce options to make up for that “sign loss,” whereas additionally utilizing synthetic intelligence to enhance advert focusing on precision, with combined success.
Executives see enterprise messaging as one other a part of the answer, because it may lastly monetize the favored chat app WhatsApp, which Meta purchased for $22 billion in 2014 however has but to provide important income.
Zuckerberg has mentioned the enterprise line – during which manufacturers pay to make use of Meta’s WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram chat companies to promote merchandise and handle buyer interactions – is prone to be the corporate’s “subsequent main pillar” of gross sales progress.
Levy’s departure comes amid a troublesome season for Meta, which final week introduced a second main spherical of layoffs tied to a restructuring plan to kill off lower-priority initiatives and “flatten” layers of center administration.
One other advertisements VP on the gross sales aspect, Michelle Klein, additionally introduced this week that she was leaving. She led a advertising and marketing unit of round 1,000 folks and steered the corporate’s rebranding from Fb to Meta, in response to her LinkedIn profile.
Meta likewise confirmed her departure. Klein didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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