1. Adam Mosseri is an American businessman and the head of Instagram.
16 Facts About Adam Mosseri
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Adam Mosseri formerly was an executive at Facebook, which owns Instagram.
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Adam Mosseri was raised in Chappaqua, New York and went to Horace Greeley High School.
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Adam Mosseri is the older brother of composer Emile Mosseri.
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Adam Mosseri attended New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study to study media and information design and graduated with a bachelor's degree in information design in 2005.
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In 2003, while studying at NYU, Adam Mosseri started his own design consultancy called Blank Adam Mosseri, which focused on graphic, interaction, and exhibition design.
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Adam Mosseri's company had offices in New York and San Francisco.
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In 2009, Adam Mosseri became a product design manager, and in 2012 became the design director for the company's mobile apps.
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From 2012 to 2016, Adam Mosseri oversaw Facebook's News Feed section, and from 2016 to May 2018 was vice president of product for Facebook.
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In May 2018, Adam Mosseri was named Instagram's vice president of product.
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On October 1,2018, Facebook announced that Adam Mosseri would assume as the new head of Instagram, following the resignation of the photo-sharing app's founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in September 2018.
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In 2017, Adam Mosseri was a keynote speaker at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy.
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In 2018, Adam Mosseri spoke alongside Campbell Brown on behalf of Facebook's news features at Recode's Code Media conference.
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Adam Mosseri used to live in London with his wife, Monica Adam Mosseri and in 2023 returned back to California after Meta announced it would transfer or lay off the majority of its London staff.
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The Adam Mosseri family is active in local philanthropic causes including the Shanti Project.
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Adam Mosseri has dual US and Israeli citizenship, as his father is Israeli.