Randi Zuckerberg

Randi Zuckerberg ( born February 28, 1982 full name Randi Jayne Zuckerberg ) is the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. She was until 2011 Chief Marketing Officer ( "Director of Marketing" ) from Facebook and since 2005 Associate of the company.

Life

Randi Zuckerberg was born in 1982. Her parents were Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. She has a younger brother, Mark ( born 1984 ), the founder of Facebook, and two sisters, Donna and Arielle, and grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, on. Zuckerberg is married to Brent Tworetzky since 2008. In 2011 she released her first child into the world.

Career

Zuckerberg studied at Harvard until 2003 psychology. Prior to her career at Facebook she was a member of the expert team at Forbes on Fox. She took over for her brother, who was rather reclusive and likes remained in the background, a large part of public appearances at conferences such as Digital Life Design in Munich, and media events.

Zuckerberg organized 2008 code debates the Democrats and Republicans of the United States on ABC News / Facebook and it was also a correspondent. She was also responsible for the CNN / Facebook Inauguration Day Partnership in 2009 and the Facebook Diaries by Comcast. Zuckerberg in 2008 was also a correspondent for Facebook, where she reported on both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention. She remained politically neutral, and told the Wall Street Journal that she was treated (" like rock stars" ) Facebook journalist team at the Democratic National Convent " like rock stars ".

Zuckerberg was taken up by the Hollywood Reporter magazine in the list of 50 Digital Power Players 2010. On the evening of November 2, 2010, she worked with at a campaign program, which was hosted by ABC News as part of the television coverage of the elections in the United States, 2010. Seven hours of this event was sent as a webcast in its entirety, both on the website of ABC and Facebook. Zuckerberg wrote the guidebook Spark Your Career in Advertising.

In 2011, she sat down in an interview for one to lift the anonymity of the Internet to effectively protect, especially children and young people from bullying on the Internet, the so-called cyber -bullying can. She hinted in an interview that the anonymity disparaging the threshold of users and their abolition whose conduct promotes: " Then the people behave better. If they remain anonymous, they think they can say anything they want. " ( " People behave a lot better whenthey have Their real names down. [ ... ] I think people hide behind anonymity and theyfeel Like They can say whatever theywant behind closed doors. " )

In August 2011, Zuckerberg withdrew from the company Facebook and announced plans to establish a new social media company called RtoZ Media. She wants to help with its reestablishment companies use social media more.

In 2011 she was nominated for an Emmy in the category " Live Coverage" for their work on the news program " Facebook Live".