Gary Briggs

Mr Briggs is currently the Chairman of Hawkfish. From 2013-2018, Gary was the Chief Marketing Officer of Facebook, responsible for the Company's brand, consumer, and product marketing. He was Facebook's first CMO. From 2010-13, Gary was at Google, where he led marketing efforts for search, maps, commerce, Chrome, Google+, Google.org, and the Google brand overall. He also led marketing for Motorola Mobility, upon its acquisition by Google. BeforeGoogle, Gary was CEO at Plastic Jungle where he joined from their Board of Directors. Before that, Gary worked at eBay from 2002-08 in roles as Vice President of Consumer Marketing, General Manager of eBay Canada, Global Marketing Head of PayPal, and CMO of eBay North America. Earlier in his career, Gary worked for six years at Pepsi, where he launched Aquafina, Pepsi's joint venture with Starbucks and was Director of Brand Pepsi. He also spent two years at IBM and was an engagement manager at McKinsey.