Gary Briggs
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Gary Briggs has been a member of Petco’s board of directors since 2018. He currently serves on the board of directors of Etsy as well as Combe, Inc., a personal-care company, and served on the board of directors of Afterpay from January 2020 to January 2022 until it was acquired by Block, Inc., and as Chairman at Hawkfish, a data and technology firm, from September 2019 to May 2021. Between 2013 and 2018, Mr. Briggs served as the Chief Marketing Officer of Facebook, Inc. (now known as Meta Platforms, Inc.). Prior to joining Facebook, he served in various leadership roles at Google Inc. Before then, he held a number of marketing and general management leadership roles at eBay Inc., PayPal, Inc., PepsiCo, Inc., and IBM Corp. Earlier in his career, he was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.