From left, U.S. President Donald Trump, Senator Dave McCormick, his wife Dina Powell McCormick and Elon Musk watch the lads’s NCAA wrestling competition on the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 22, 2025.
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Meta on Friday announced that it was expanding its board of directors with two latest members, including Dina Powell McCormick, a component of President Donald Trump’s first administration.
Powell McCormick served as a deputy national security advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2018. She can be married to Sen. Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania who took office in January.
“He’s a very good man,” Trump said of McCormick in an endorsement last yr, in accordance with the Associated Press. Powell McCormick and her husband were photographed in March beside Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a current advisor to the president, at a wrestling championship match in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Moreover, Powell McCormick was assistant Secretary of State under Condoleezza Rice in President George W. Bush’s administration.
Besides her political background, Powell McCormick is vice chair, president and head of world client services at BDT & MSD Partners. That company was founded in 2023 when the merchant bank BDT combined with Michael Dell’s investment firm MSD. Powell McCormick arrived on the firm after 16 years at Goldman Sachs, where she had been a partner.
Her appointment represents one other sign of Meta’s alignment with Republicans following Trump’s return to the White House.
In January, the corporate announced a shift away from fact-checking and said it was bringing Trump’s friend Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship, onto the board. The changes follow Trump dubbing the corporate behind Facebook and Instagram “the enemy of the people” on CNBC last yr.
Also on Friday, Meta said Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of payments startup Stripe, was also elected to the board. Stripe was valued at $65 billion in a young offer last yr.
“Patrick and Dina bring quite a lot of experience supporting businesses and entrepreneurs to our board,” Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Zuckerberg visited the White House last week, after attending Trump’s inauguration in Washington in January. Politico last week reported that the Meta CEO paid $23 million in money for a mansion within the nation’s capital.
Powell McCormick and Collison officially turn out to be directors on April 15, Meta said.
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