# Meta chief strategy officer Dave Wehner leaves to join AI infrastructure startup Fireworks as CFO

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/meta-chief-strategy-officer-dave-wehner-leaves-to-join-ai-infrastructure-startup-fireworks-as-cfo/
- Published: 2026-11-07T17:51:16+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T18:27:17+00:00
- Original publisher: CNBC (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/07/dave-wehner-meta-fireworks-cfo.html
- Topics: AI, Business, Companies, Technology

## Key points

- Dave Wehner is leaving Meta to become Fireworks’ CFO.
- Fireworks was valued at $17.5 billion in July.
- He will help scale the AI startup’s finances and operations.

## Summary

Dave Wehner is leaving Meta to become chief financial officer of Fireworks, a four-year-old AI infrastructure startup. The move takes a former senior executive from a company worth about $1.56 trillion to a much smaller business seeking to expand its AI services.

Fireworks builds tools for developers to customise and run open AI models, and was valued at $17.5 billion in a July funding round. It is reportedly in early talks to raise money at a possible $30 billion to $40 billion valuation. Wehner joined Meta in 2012 and served as its CFO from 2014 to 2022; at Fireworks, he will focus on scaling finances and operations. In October, Fireworks disclosed unauthorised access to environment variables used in evaluation jobs for a limited number of customer accounts, while saying it had found no evidence that customer models, datasets or personal information were accessed.

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