Former Facebook Business-Development Head Ali Rosenthal Joins MessageMe As COO

Ali Rosenthal left her post as business-development head at Facebook in January 2011, spending one year as an executive in residence at Greylock Partners. And now, she will join startup free messaging application MessageMe as chief operating officer.

Ali Rosenthal left her post as business-development head at Facebook in January 2011, spending one year as an executive in residence at Greylock Partners. And now, she will join startup free messaging application MessageMe as chief operating officer.

Facebook blocked MessageMe’s access to its find friends functionality in March.

According to AllThingsD, while at Greylock, Rosenthal worked with LittleInc Labs, which created MessageMe.

Rosenthal wrote in a blog post on Tumblr:

I joined Facebook early in 2006, when it was a community of 4 million, and led teams through hyper-growth and intense competition when MySpace was the behemoth and the industry felt saturated.

As a part of Facebook’s business-development and mobile organizations, my colleagues and I forged and managed relationships with the global Web and mobile ecosystems.

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