Adam Mosseri

Adam Mosseri is an American businessman who heads Instagram, after years as an executive at Facebook.

born 1983Head of InstagramOverseeing Facebook's News FeedProduct leadership at Facebook

Born: 23 January 1983, New York City
Occupation: businessperson
Education: New York University

Adam Mosseri was born in 1983 in New York City

Mosseri was born in New York City on January 23, 1983. His father is an Israeli Jewish psychotherapist from Egypt, and his mother is an architect. He grew up in Chappaqua, New York, and his younger brother is composer Emile Mosseri.

He studied media and information design at the Gallatin School of New York University. He earned a bachelor's degree in information design in 2005. While still a student, in 2003, he founded a design consultancy called Blank Mosseri, with offices in New York and San Francisco.

In 2007 he joined TokBox as its first designer, and in 2008 he moved to Facebook as a product designer. He later led design for the company's mobile apps, oversaw News Feed from 2012 to 2016, and was vice president of product from 2016 to 2018. He also spoke publicly for Facebook on fake news and during the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

In May 2018 he became Instagram's vice president of product. In October 2018, after the founders resigned, Facebook named him head of Instagram. He lives with his wife Monica and their sons and holds both U.S. and Israeli citizenship.