Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers Manager Adam Gerston Joins Shift

Adam Gerston, one of the leaders of Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developers program, became the latest high-profile executive to leave the social network, and he will join Shift as vice president of strategic partnerships.

Adam Gerston, one of the leaders of Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developers program, became the latest high-profile executive to leave the social network, and he will join Shift as vice president of strategic partnerships.

Gerston had been with Facebook since 2010, telling Business Insider the Preferred Marketing Developers group totaled two people when he started at the social network, and it is now made up of 20 managers, handling 25 percent of the company’s ad clients.

Speaking about his departure from Facebook, Gerston told Business Insider:

I was on the four-year vesting schedule, and the other year-and-a half I had to lose.

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