This week already William Platt-Higgins, who has been with Meta for over a decade, revealed he's leaving the company next month. Platt-Higgins started at Meta in 2012 as a vice president of global client partnerships and kept that title as his purview expanded to include government and policy and non-profit organizations at the company.
Prior to the exit of Platt-Higgins, three other VPs said they were leaving the company. Sarah O'Brien is leaving after four years of leading executive and product communications at the company. Two other executives, each with over a decade at the company, are also out. Gigi Melrose, VP of growth for Meta's small business group is leaving after 12 years. She only took on the VP role last year after being promoted from the director level.
And Katherine Shappley, VP of Meta's commerce business group, is leaving at the end of this month after 13 years. Melrose and Shappley were both based out of Meta's office in Austin, with Shappley acting as the head of the Austin office in addition to her other work. One of the people familiar said internally there has recently been talk that Austin will be the next Meta office to further shrink its footprint, similar to what happened last month at the company's office in London. Although still open, the entirety of Instagram staff in the UK office were