Sheryl Sandberg will step down from the board of Meta, the mother or father firm of Fb, in Could. The 54-year-old introduced the information — the place else — on her Fb web page, in a put up that defined that “the Meta enterprise is robust and well-positioned for the longer term, so this looks like the correct time to step away.”

In 2022, Sandberg stepped down as COO of the corporate, a job she had held for greater than 14 years. When Mark Zuckerberg employed her to affix the startup often known as Fb in March 2008, it was not but worthwhile. Below her steerage, the corporate adopted promoting fashions that remodeled it into a contemporary monolith.

Sandberg could also be stepping down from its board, however she is not chopping all her ties with Meta. She’s going to nonetheless function an advisor to the corporate, and “will at all times be there to assist the Meta groups,” she wrote in her put up.

She additionally prolonged her because of Zuckerberg, writing “I’ll at all times be grateful to Mark for believing in me and for his partnership and friendship; he’s that actually once-in-a-generation visionary chief and he’s equally wonderful as a pal who stays by your aspect by means of the great instances and the unhealthy.” Sandberg has credited Zuckerberg and his spouse Priscilla Chan as integral to her coping with the sudden dying of her husband in 2015.

In a remark, Zuckerberg responded, “I’m grateful in your unwavering dedication to me and Meta through the years. I stay up for this subsequent chapter collectively!”

Earlier than becoming a member of Fb, Sandberg was a Vice President at Google and served as Chief of Workers for the US Treasury Division beneath Invoice Clinton. Her best-selling 2013 ebook, “Lean In: Ladies, Work, and the Will to Lead” impressed a technology of working ladies and was criticized for its hole messaging that excluded the realities of single mother and father and ladies of coloration. Sandberg stays probably the most seen, profitable ladies in company America and a trailblazer in an trade traditionally dominated by males.