The Walt Disney Company has nominated Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of online social utility company Facebook, to be a new independent director of its board of directors, effective upon her election at the company’s next annual meeting on March 10, 2010.
Sandberg has served as COO of Facebook since March 2008. In that capacity, she has been responsible for building Facebook’s operations globally and managing its sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy, and communications functions. Facebook is now considered the number-one global social network with more than 350 million members.
