10 former Meta trust and safety leaders
These ten people led trust and safety teams or trust and safety work at Meta and have since left the company. A reader can learn how trust and safety work was run at a company like Meta from people who did it there.
Professionals to explore
Betsy Bramon
LinkedInExperience: Head of Equity & Social Impact | Trust and Safety Policy · Meta
Betsy Bramon is a former Head of Equity & Social Impact | Trust and Safety Policy at Meta, holding the role from 2022 to 2023, and was Crisis & Human Rights Global Lead for Content Policy there from 2019 to 2022. Betsy Bramon has been Principal at Kronia Collaborative: Social Impact | Equity since 2023 and was Senior Policy Advisor, The Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI) at the U.S. Department of State from 2016 to 2018.
Ella Irwin
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director, Product Management - AI Trust · Meta
Ella Irwin is a former Sr. Director, Product Management - AI Trust at Meta, holding the role from 2024 to 2026, and is based in Seattle, Washington. Ella Irwin was SVP, Integrity at Stability AI from 2023 to 2024, VP, Product - Trust and Safety at X from 2022 to 2023 and VP of Product - Consumer Trust at Twilio from 2020 to 2022.
Gaurav Shukla
LinkedInExperience: Head of Operations, Europe & South Asia · Meta
Gaurav Shukla is a former Head of Operations, Europe & South Asia at Meta, holding the role from 2023 to 2026, and was Head of Risk Prevention there from 2022 to 2023 and Senior Manager | Global Market Operations from 2021 to 2022. Gaurav Shukla has been Principal Advisor at Kybernic since September 2026, and the profile headline lists Former European Head, Global Response Operations, Meta.
Malea Otranto
LinkedInExperience: Head of Trust and Safety — Global Business Group, Global Partners · Meta
Malea Otranto is a former Head of Trust and Safety — Global Business Group, Global Partners at Meta, holding the role from 2024 to 2026, and was Head of Strategic Initiatives & Executive Operations, GBG there from 2020 to 2024. Malea Otranto is based in New York and held associate director and senior manager titles at WE.org from 2017 to 2020.
Natalia Aguilar Gallego
LinkedInExperience: Head of Market Operations, DACH/LATAM - Trust & Safety · Meta
Natalia Aguilar Gallego is a former Head of Market Operations, DACH/LATAM - Trust & Safety at Meta, holding the role from 2019 to 2022. Natalia Aguilar Gallego has been Head of Risk Prevention Operations, Trust & Safety at ByteDance since 2022 and was Global Head of Marketing Solutions at trivago from 2017 to 2019.
Nicole Lopez
LinkedInExperience: Director of Safety Policy-Youth · Meta
Nicole Lopez is a former Director of Safety Policy-Youth at Meta, holding the role from 2022 to 2025, and was Director and Associate General Counsel there from 2025 to 2026. Nicole Lopez has been Partner, Public Policy & Online Safety at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP since 2026 and held the titles Head of Trust & Safety (2020 to 2022) and General Counsel (2020 to 2021) at Outschool.
Scott Stern
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Global Response Operations, Trust and Safety · Meta
Scott Stern is a former Senior Manager, Global Response Operations, Trust and Safety at Meta, holding the role from 2020 to 2026, and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Scott Stern has been Product Lead, Safety Systems & Trust at Inflection AI since 2026 and held product manager and director titles at the American Marketing Association from 2017 to 2020.
Sean Kavanagh
LinkedInExperience: Lead Operations Manager, GO Systems Trust & Safety · Meta
Sean Kavanagh is a former Lead Operations Manager, GO Systems Trust & Safety at Meta, holding the role from 2020 to 2025, and is based in Greater Dublin. Sean Kavanagh was Lead Manager Ops Product Support at PayPal from 2016 to 2020 and held program manager and program lead titles in PayPal's global operations from 2008 to 2016.
Tony L.
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product, Metaverse Trust & Safety, Youth and Social Impact · Meta
Tony L. is a former Director of Product, Metaverse Trust & Safety, Youth and Social Impact at Meta, holding the role from 2022 to 2023, and was EIR, Metaverse team | Facebook Reality Labs at Facebook from 2021 to 2022. Tony L. has been Head of Trust & Safety, Product & Strategy at Apple since 2023 and was Senior Director, Product Management & Design for Apple's Worldwide Online Stores from 2014 to 2021.
Zach Goldstein
LinkedInExperience: Senior Manager, Trust & Safety · Meta
Zach Goldstein is a former Senior Manager, Trust & Safety at Meta, holding the role from 2018 to 2025, and is based in Austin, Texas. Zach Goldstein has held a Stealth Lead title at Stealth since 2025, was a Co-Founder of Severn River Holdings, LLC from 2016 to 2018 and was a Troop Commander with the United States Department of War from 2012 to 2016.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since regional operations, safety policy, product and AI trust roles each saw a different part of trust and safety. Check the years of their Meta role and where they work now, because practices and tools change quickly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you divide trust and safety work between policy, operations and product teams?
- 02Which measures told you whether a trust and safety team was keeping up with new abuse patterns?
- 03What would you set up first for trust and safety at a younger platform with a small team?
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