Facebook hires and departures: former Apple employee becomes engineering director; FBX creator leaves
Richard Williamson, who was part of the original iPhone team at Apple, has become a director of engineering at Facebook, according to LinkedIn.
Bloomberg first reported the story this week after hearing the news from unnamed sources. Williamson built software for the original iPhone and then led the company’s efforts on a maps product. He was fired by Apple in November after the maps app was largely considered a failure.
In departures news, Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia-Martinez, who spearheaded the social network’s moves into the retargeting space with the Facebook Exchange, this week had his last day with the company.
Garcia-Martinez came to Facebook in April 2011 after his company AdGrok sold to Twitter.
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