Meta Poaches Dave Brown, Former AWS Compute And AI Chief
Brown leaves one of Amazon's most senior cloud infrastructure posts to run Meta's physical data center buildout within weeks.
- Dave Brown held the title senior vice president of AWS Compute, AI and Platform.
- He joins Meta within the coming weeks, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
- At Meta, Brown will work specifically on the company's data center build-out.
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Techmeme (citing WSJ/Anissa Gardizy) ↗ · Jul 17, 20267/17/26 · ✓ Checked✓ Check