Boland was one of Facebook's longest tenured employees, having joined the company in 2009. Over that time, Boland had become a key insider, growing close with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.vice president in charge of the partnership product marketing team resigned last week, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC.
Facebook confirmed Boland's departure to CNBC. Boland will continue in his day-to-day role until the end of September, and he will continue to help Facebook find a new leader for the partnerships organization until the end of the year, a spokeswoman for the company told CNBC. One of Boland's roles was overseeing partnership data, which includes advertising data the company and its partners share with each other and developers that tap into the company's application programming interfaces . In April 2018, Facebookon how apps could use information from some of its APIs as part of a tighter focus on user privacy following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a political consultancy used information about Facebook users that it had gained improperly .
I hope he breaks things on his way out.