In Paresh Rajwat’s 20-year journey across the tech landscape, he held leadership positions at Apple, Criteo, Yahoo! and Microsoft.

Over the past eight years, Rajwat has worked in numerous capacities at Meta, overseeing the early days of Facebook’s video team, leading Facebook’s app monetization, and now serving as Vice President and Head of Product for VR.

Meta announced Tuesday that Rajwat has been named the new office manager for the company’s major Pacific Northwest operations hub.

Rajwat said he’s optimistic about the role that more than 8,000 employees in the Seattle region will play in Meta’s big bet on the metaverse, the immersive, futuristic internet that the…