Meta Strategy Chief Dave Wehner to Become Fireworks CFO

Meta Platform’s chief strategy officer Dave Wehner is leaving the company to become chief finance officer of AI inference startup Fireworks, Wehner confirmed on X Friday.

Wehner joined Facebook in 2012 as vice president of corporate finance and business planning and became CFO in 2014, a role he held for more than eight years before transitioning to chief strategy officer in 2022.

Before joining Facebook, he served as CFO of Zynga and as a managing director at investment bank Allen & Co.. Wehner is also on the board of directors of Aurora Innovation, a company that makes self-driving technology for trucks.

Fireworks is kicking off a new fundraising round next week, say people familiar with the matter. It’s targeting a valuation of at least $30 billion valuation, The Information first reported. —Jyoti Mann contributed to this report.