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Menlo Park, CA-based Facebook Appointed Atish Banerjea as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Facebook is defined by our unique culture – one that rewards impact. We encourage people to be bold and solve the problems they care most about. We work in small teams and move fast to develop new products, constantly iterating. The phrase “this journey is 1% finished,” reminds us that we`ve only begun to fulfill our mission to bring the world closer together.
About the Person
Atish Banerjea comes from Comcast Corp.-owned NBCUniversal, where as CIO he oversaw global IT operations, applications and infrastructure for the company’s media portfolio. Banerjea, who has been with NBCUniversal since late 2012, joins Facebook as the company faces a volley of questions about whether it considers itself to be a technology platform or a media company and what impact the social media giant had on the recent presidential election. Banerjea served as the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Dex Media, Inc. from January 10, 2011 to January 25, 2013. He was responsible for all information technology, engineering and interactive product development. While at Pearson, Mr. Banerjea was credited with helping direct its transformation from a print-dominated business to a digital leader and was responsible for the global oversight and management of Pearson`s technology initiatives and systems, as well as infrastructure for Pearson worldwide, he managed a team of more than 1,800, including contractors, with additional oversight of product development groups totaling 2,500. Mr. Banerjea spent the last 10 years with Pearson PLC. He has also held roles at Maurices, Inc and Simon & Schuster. Prior to his promotion to Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Pearson in 2005, Mr. Banerjea held positions as senior vice president, technology strategy and architecture and chief technology officer and earlier, vice president, systems infrastructure, both for Pearson Education. He has been a Director at Nelson Education Ltd. since October 1, 2015. Early in his career, Mr. Banerjea held a full-time tenure track faculty position at the University of Wisconsin as assistant professor, computer information systems (CIS) responsible for teaching all the advanced CIS courses for the undergraduate computer information systems program, as well as conducting research in support of teaching assignments. Mr. Banerjea holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Temple University, and a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Delhi in 1988.
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