{"id":203226,"date":"2025-01-07T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/meta-appoints-ufcs-president-to-its-board"},"modified":"2025-01-07T06:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:02:30","slug":"meta-appoints-ufcs-president-to-its-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/meta-appoints-ufcs-president-to-its-board","title":{"rendered":"Meta appoints UFC\u2019s president to its board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meta-appoints-ufcs-president-to-its-board2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, the company announced Monday: UFC president and CEO Dana White, European investment company Exor CEO John Elkann, and tech investor and entrepreneur Charlie Songhurst.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2025\/01\/dana-white-john-elkann-charlie-songhurst-meta-board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">press release<\/a>, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that White, Elkann, and Songhurst \u201cwill add a depth of expertise and perspective\u201d that\u2019ll help Meta \u201ctackle the massive opportunities ahead with AI, wearables, and the future of human connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White was named CEO of UFC in 2023, after the organization merged with WWE to form a new public company, TKO Group Holdings. He\u2019s responsible for the overall strategic direction of UFC\u2019s global business, including its live events series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has appointed three new members to its board of directors, the company announced Monday: UFC president and CEO Dana White, European investment company Exor CEO John Elkann, and tech investor and entrepreneur Charlie Songhurst. In a press release, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that White, Elkann, and Songhurst \u201cwill add a depth of expertise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}