David Wehner
{{short description|American corporate executive}}
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David M. Wehner is an American business executive who is the chief strategy officer (CSO) of Meta Platforms (known until 2021 as Facebook, Inc.).
Education
Wehner attended Saint Louis Priory School and graduated in 1986.{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/biznext/2014/04/priory-graduate-named-facebook.html|title=Priory graduate named Facebook CFO|author=Brian Feldt|date=24 April 2014|work=St. Louis Business Journal|access-date=9 April 2016}} Wehner graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in Chemistry, where he was an editor for The Hoya. He graduated from Stanford University with an MS in Applied Physics, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow.{{cite news|url=http://allthingsd.com/20100730/in-ipo-signaling-move-zynga-adds-fancy-cfo/|title=Zynga Hires Investment Banker David Wehner as CFO |first=Kara |last=Swisher |author-link=Kara Swisher |website= allthingsd.com |date= 2010-07-30 |access-date=2023-08-23}}
Career
Early in his career, Wehner worked at Monitor Group and Hambrecht & Quist. Wehner worked at Allen & Company for nearly a decade until 2010, when he became the CFO of Zynga.{{Cite web |url=http://investor.fb.com/management.cfm |title=Management - Facebook |access-date=2014-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714185936/http://investor.fb.com/management.cfm |archive-date=2014-07-14 |url-status=dead }} At these firms, he held series 7 and series 24 licenses.
Wehner joined Facebook in 2011 as VP of Corporate Finance and Business Planning.{{cite web|title=Executive Profile: David M. Wehner|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=29865771&privcapId=20765463|website=Bloomberg|access-date=9 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-13/zynga-promotes-vranesh-to-cfo-as-wehner-exits-for-facebook-post.html|title=Zynga CFO David Wehner Departs for Facebook as Stock Tumbles|author=Douglas MacMillan|date=14 November 2012|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=9 April 2016}} Wehner succeeded David Ebersman as CFO of Facebook, Inc. on June 1, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=29865771&ticker=ZNGA|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140709184507/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=29865771&ticker=ZNGA|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2014|title=List of Public Companies Worldwide, Letter - Businessweek - Businessweek|access-date=9 April 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/23/facebook-cfo-stepping-down/|title=Facebook CFO David Ebersman Stepping Down Later This Year|date=23 April 2014|publisher=AOL|work=TechCrunch|access-date=4 April 2016}}
References
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Category:American chief financial officers
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