Chris Cox

Chris Cox is chief product officer at Meta, leading its core apps and technologies. After earning his bachelor's degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University in 2004, Chris joined Meta, then called Facebook, in 2005 as its thirteenth software engineer, where he was instrumental in building the first versions of key Facebook features, including News Feed. In 2008, he became Vice President of Product, expanding the initial product management and design teams, before being promoted to Chief Product Officer in 2014. He now leads Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads, along with Meta's Generative AI, AI Research and Privacy organisations.