Fireworks hires former Meta executive Dave Wehner as CFO

Meta's longtime finance chief is leaving for a four-year-old AI inference startup valued at $17.5 billion Dave Wehner spent years managing the money at one of the largest companies on the planet. His next job is at a startup that is four years old. Wehner, who most recently served as Meta ’s chief strategy officer, is leaving the company to become chief financial officer of Fireworks, an AI startup. He announced the move on X on Friday. It is a notable jump: a seasoned Big Tech finance executive betting his next chapter on a company that did not exist until 2022. Wehner’s résumé is about as Meta as it gets. He joined the company in 2012 and took over as CFO in 2014, a role he held until 2022.

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