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published_at: "2026-11-07T05:22:25.000Z"
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# Meta Chief Strategy Officer David Wehner Joins Fireworks as CFO

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**Published:** 2026-11-07T05:22:25.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** meta, inference

## Summary

Fireworks has appointed David Wehner as its new chief financial officer\. Wehner, who is resigning as chief strategy officer at Meta, will help the startup develop tools that enable companies to create specialized AI based on their own proprietary data\. Fireworks' Lin Qiao said Wehner's experience scaling Meta during its key growth phases would be an asset as the company focuses on enhancing the economics of AI training and inference\.

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- [Story source](<https://marketbrief.now/business/meta-chief-strategy-officer-david-wehner-joins-fireworks-as-cfo-ebcc9cb5>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/dwehner/status/2118880694474621166>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/lqiao/status/2118888345023701113>)
- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/business/meta-chief-strategy-officer-david-wehner-joins-fireworks-as-cfo-ebcc9cb5>)

