Next change for Facebook: New board director, executives reshuffled

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MENLO PARK, California: Facebook will undergo major organisational changes inside its Menlo Park-based headquarters and with its board of directors, including having a new director fill the board seat left open by WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum. 

Jeff Zients, the CEO of the multinational holding company Cranemere, will join Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen and four others on Facebook's board effective May 31, the day of Facebook's shareholder meeting, the company announced Tuesday.