Ex-Facebook executive Randi Zuckerberg will speak in Tulsa, Oklahoma City
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business will host Randi Zuckerberg,
former head of marketing of Facebook and founder and CEO of R to Z Media, as part
of the school’s speaker series in Tulsa and Oklahoma City in March.
Zuckerberg will speak at the Tulsa Business Forums from noon-1:30 p.m. Thursday,
March 15, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
She will also be featured in Oklahoma City from noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, March 16,
at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum as a part of the Executive Management
Briefings series.
Zuckerberg plans to speak in both cities on “Social Change through Social Media:
How the Web is Changing the Way We Live, Vote and Organize.”
Dean Larry Crosby stresses the importance of social media and its impact at the Spears
School of Business.
“We feel the new name of the Spears School magazine, engage@spears, conveys a sense of modernity that is in keeping with our state-of-the-art teaching,
research and outreach programs,” Crosby said. “Further, the @ symbol suggests linkage
to the Internet and also the notion of being without boundaries.
“The Internet is one of the tools that allow us to expand our impact well beyond
the borders of Oklahoma. For example, we have online students in our distance learning
programs aboard Navy ships and stationed at military bases in the Middle East. Through
the Internet, we advertise our programs to prospective international students, and
it is the medium that connects our study abroad students back home.”
Zuckerberg ran the marketing department at Facebook for six years. Her team led the
company’s United States election and international politics strategy, launched the
live streaming industry with her media partnerships around the U.S. presidential inaugurations,
and was nominated for an Emmy in 2011 for her innovative TV/online coverage of the
2010 mid-term elections.
She has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, Bloomberg, and World
News and was a correspondent for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards and the World Economic
Forum in Switzerland.
In August 2011, Zuckerberg left Facebook to start R to Z Media, a new type of media
platform.
Registration for the luncheon featuring Zuckerberg is $100 each at both the Tulsa
Business Forums and Executive Management Briefings.
For more information about the Executive Management Briefings in Oklahoma City or
to learn about how you can participate as a sponsor, email Gaye Trivitt at gaye.trivitt@okstate.edu or visit http://cepd.okstate.edu
For more information about the Tulsa Business Forums or to learn about how you can
participate as a sponsor, email Karen Ward at karen.ward@okstate.edu or visit http://cepd.okstate.edu
Peter Sheahan, founder and chief executive officer of ChangeLabs™, will also be speaking
at the Tulsa Business Forums on May 1, from noon-1:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.