Facebook Appoints Andrew Bosworth To Lead Hardware Units

 | Aug 23, 2017 11:01PM ET

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has appointed VP of ads and business platform, Andrew Bosworth to spearhead all its hardware efforts including Building 8 and Oculus, per a Business Insider report.

Regina Dugan, head of Building 8 and Hugo Barra, head of company’s VR initiatives as well as the Oculus unit will report to Bosworth. Ads engineering head Mark Rabkin will replace Bosworth as VP of ads and business platform.

Bosworth has been with Facebook for the past 11 years and is known to be a close aide of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He had played a pivotal role in creating News Feed and Messenger, adds the report.

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