Facebook’s first non-white board member is American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault
Facebook has appointed Kenneth Chenault to its board of directors. Chenault has been the CEO of American Express since 2001 and will cap off that 16-year run when he retires as chairman and chief executive at the credit card company on February 1st. He’ll officially join the board a few days later on February 5th. Chenault will become the first non-white member of the social network’s board of directors. The Wall Street Journal has described him as “one of the country’s most prominent African-American corporate leaders.”
As Gizmodo notes, COO Sheryl Sandberg told the Congressional Black Caucus in October that Facebook would hire a black board member “in the foreseeable future” in its continued attempts to address Silicon Valley’s need...