Frank Frankovsky Leaves Facebook To Form Optical-Storage Startup; Will Remain With OCP

Facebook Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain Operations and Open Compute Project Chairman and President Frank Frankovsky left the social network to form an optical-storage startup, GigaOM reported, adding that he will continue as OCP chairman and president as an independent member.

OpenComputeProjectLogo650Facebook Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain Operations and Open Compute Project Chairman and President Frank Frankovsky left the social network to form an optical-storage startup, GigaOM reported, adding that he will continue as OCP chairman and president as an independent member.

According to GigaOM, Director of Infrastructure Jason Taylor is now leading Facebook’s hardware design and supply chain teams and representing the social network at OCP, where he will join the board. Facebook told GigaOM Taylor has been overseeing a great deal of this work over the past year.

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