Co-Founder
Facebook
Chris R Hughes co-founded and served as spokesperson for Facebook, the social networking website, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Facebook is the world’s most used social network by worldwide monthly active users. Hughes currently serves as a consultant for the popular site, and also acted as coordinator of online within the Barack Obama presidential campaign. In this role, he founded MyBarackObamba.com – the campaign’s online social networking website.
In April 2009, Hughes was featured as the cover story of US magazine Fast Company under the headline: The kid who made Obama President; how Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes unleaded Barack’s base – and changed politics and marketing forever. Hughes served on the National Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Institution in 2005 and 2006, and is a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover and Harvard College. In 2006, Hughes graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature. He is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners – a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs who are building the technology-based companies that will lead innovation and transform industries.