Jeffrey Zients, who has actually been chosen as President-elect Joe Biden‘s coronavirus chief on Thursday, reportedly left Facebook previously this year over differences with the social media giant.
Politico earlier reported Biden’s decision to tap Zients as his administration’s COVID-19 head, according to individuals familiar with the matter.
Previously this year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Zients would not look for reelection to Facebook’s board.
In addition to serving on Facebook’s board, Zients served as the director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama and was an assistant to the president for economic policy.
Prior to his time as the director of the National Economic Council, Zients served twice as the acting director of the Workplace of Management and Spending Plan (OMB).
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Zients was confirmed by the Senate as the deputy director of the OMB in 2009, and was later selected by Obama as United States primary efficiency officer.
” I have actually named Jeffrey Zients, a leading CEO, management consultant and business owner, to act as Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget and as the first ever Chief Performance Officer,” Obama stated in2009 “Jeffrey will work to improve processes, cut costs, and find best practices throughout our government.”
In 2013, Zients was hired by Obama and then-Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough to fix healthcare.gov, following its error-plagued launch.
Prior to his time working under Obama’s administration, Zients acted as the chief executive officer (1998–2000) and the chairman (2001-2004) of the Board Of Advisers Business, in addition to the chairman of the Corporate Executive Board from 2000 to 2001.
Zients likewise established and served as the managing partner of Portfolio Logic LLC, a private investment firm with a concentrate on healthcare services.
He is currently the CEO of Cranemere, a holding business, which is understood for “rejecting the debt-fueled buy-and-sell grind of personal equity and doing it old-school like Buffett– trying to find worth where others have missed it and investing for the long-long term,” according to The Washington Post
In addition to Zients, Politico reported that Biden plans to select Vivek Murthy as the U.S. cosmetic surgeon general, a position he formerly held under the Obama administration.
Newsweek reached out to Biden’s transition group for remark, however did not receive a reaction in time for publication.
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