Facebook Names Dropbox Chief Executive Drew Houston to Board

Houston and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are friends
Facebook is still looking for a lead independent director

Drew Houston attends The Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 22, 2019.Photographer: Martina Albertazzi/Bloomberg

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By Kurt Wagner

February 3, 2020 at 9:05 PM UTC

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Dropbox Inc. Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston is joining Facebook Inc.’s board.

Houston, who co-founded file-sharing software company Dropbox in 2007, is a friend of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Houston has in the past turned to Zuckerberg for help running his own company. “He’s given me a lot of advice on company scaling,” Houston told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in 2015. “How do you organize people? How do you set up these systems?”