10 Meta operations leaders
At Meta, the operations leaders here are four vice presidents (scaled operations, product and service, product and regulatory, and commerce), a head of global data center site operations and five directors, all in current Meta roles. Three describe AI work: human data operations for Gen AI models, frontier model data collection and program management at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Most relevant when setting up human data operations or regional data centers.
Professionals to explore
Abigail Sooy
LinkedInExperience: VP, Product and Regulatory Operations · Meta
VP, Product and Regulatory Operations at Meta since 2023 and VP, Community Product Operations since 2021, leading operations teams that include Human Data Operations for Gen AI frontier model development and product quality efforts. Abigail Sooy was Director, Community Operations, Trust & Safety (2017-2021) and Director, Community Product Operations, Trust & Safety (2021) at Facebook. The pick for human data operations and trust and safety.
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Adam Faul
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Operations Integrations · Meta
Director, Global Operations Integrations at Meta since 2025, a title also held in 2023-2024, with Director, WhatsApp Operations (2024-2025) in between and, earlier, Director, Metaverse Integrity Operations (2022-2023). Adam Faul describes leading large-scale data collection for Meta's frontier models, leading 150+ people supporting apps such as WhatsApp, Threads and MetaAI, and serving as ops lead for Meta's M&A. Good for post-acquisition operations questions.
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Gene Alston
LinkedInExperience: VP, Commerce Business & Operations · Meta
VP, Commerce Business & Operations at Meta since 2019, following VP, Marketing Partnerships at Meta (2017-2019). Gene Alston also lists Head of Corporate & Business Development at Pinterest, with no start date shown. Business development and commerce roles together fit questions on commerce business operations at Meta.
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Golnoosh Salimpour
LinkedInExperience: Director, Facebook Operations · Meta
Director, Facebook Operations at Meta since 2023, described as Chief of Staff to the Head of Facebook, leading the org's strategy and operations team. Golnoosh Salimpour also holds a Business Lead title at Meta since 2020. The person to ask how a strategy and operations team supports the head of an app.
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Honora Whitfield
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Global Operations, Scaled Operations · Meta
Vice President, Global Operations, Scaled Operations at Meta since 2022, after Global Director, Global Operations Learning Organization at Meta (2019-2022). Honora Whitfield was Worldwide Learning Leader - Health, Safety, Sustainability, Security, and Compliance (HSSSC) at Amazon (2016-2019), Head of Learning Sciences, Learning Technologies and Performance Consulting at Boeing (2015-2016) and Vice President, Global Learning Organization at Bank of America (2011-2015). A fit for questions on training operations workforces.
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Jennifer Dukart
LinkedInExperience: Director of Program Management & Operations, Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta
Director of Program Management & Operations, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta since 2025, leading the program management team across AGI Foundations (AI Tech and AI Frontier). Jennifer Dukart was Director of Strategy and Operations, XR Tech (Reality Labs) (2022-2025), and worked in Infrastructure Security Programs (2018-2022) and Outsourced Operations (2017-2018) at Meta. Suits program management questions for AI research teams.
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Maria C. Perez
LinkedInExperience: Director, Product Operations · Meta
Director, Product Operations at Meta since 2022, describing a global operations organization supporting 400+ enterprise products across 13 verticals, with program management, release management, production support and controls and compliance teams. Maria C. Perez spent 2011 to 2022 at Ipsos, most recently as SVP, Head of Ipsos.Digital, NA (2020-2022). A fit for release management and operating model questions for internal products.
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Niall McEntegart
LinkedInExperience: Head of Global Operations, SiteOps (US East, EMEA, APAC) · Meta
Niall McEntegart has been Head of Global Operations, SiteOps (US East, EMEA, APAC) at Meta since 2021 and was Director Datacenter Site Operations (EMEA & APAC - Global Lead) there (2020-2022), based in Dublin. Niall also sits on the executive boards of Qstar Ltd and EDGE NETWORK SERVICES LIMITED since 2021. The only data center operations leader here.
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Sandy Dondici
LinkedInExperience: VP, Product and Service Operations · Meta
Sandy Dondici lists two current Meta titles: VP, Product and Service Operations (since 2019) and Director, Product and Service Operations (since 2018). Sandy Dondici was also CTO COO at Poptent (2012-2014). Having held a CTO COO title at Poptent, Sandy suits questions on how product and service operations work alongside product teams.
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Choose the right perspective
For AI training data operations, Abigail Sooy and Adam Faul are the two whose records describe it, while Jennifer Dukart covers program management inside an AI lab. Data center site questions go to Niall McEntegart, and commerce to Gene Alston or Sharad Agarwal, who also covers Reality Labs product operations. Golnoosh Salimpour is the chief of staff view of running one app's organization, and Honora Whitfield the scaled operations and training view.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you staff and quality-check human data operations that produce training data for large AI models?
- 02What does an operations integration team need to do in the first months after a tech company buys another app?
- 03How should data center site operations be split between a global lead and regional site teams?
About this directory
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