The Walt Disney Company has nominated Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of online social utility company Facebook, to be a new independent director of its board of directors, effective upon her election at the company's next annual meeting on March 10, 2010.

Sandberg has served as COO of Facebook since March 2008. In that capacity, she has been responsible for building Facebook's operations globally and managing its sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy, and communications functions. Facebook is now considered the number-one global social network with more than 350 million members.

Prior to joining Facebook, Sandberg was vice president of global online sales and operations for Internet search engine company Google, a post she assumed in 2001. In that role, she built and managed Google's online sales channels, which represents the majority of Google's customers worldwide, for both AdWords and AdSense. Sandberg is also a former chief of staff of the United States Treasury Department and previously served as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and as an economist with The World Bank.

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