Brandee Barker Speaker and Booking Agent Information

Brandee Barker advises Internet startups on strategic communications and social media programs. Having spent nearly 20 years in the tech industry, her passion is guiding young founders, executives and their teams through the crucial stages of message development and delivery, market positioning, launch planning and multimedia dissemination. Her current and past clients include notable Internet start-ups AirBnB, Groupon, Spotify, Square and Quora.

Prior to starting her own business in 2011, Brandee held the distinguished role of being the first communications executive at Facebook. In 2006, Brandee joined Facebook when it had 100 employees and 5 million college users and saw it through to more than 2,000 employees and 500 million users worldwide. During her tenure, she grew the communications team to 10 employees, hired and managed the first U.S. and international PR agencies, and oversaw a multi-million dollar budget. She led the PR strategy for many major business milestones including, Microsoft ($240MM) and DST ($300MM) investments, Parakey and Friend Feed acquisitions, and many strategic partnerships. She launched hundreds of products and features, most notably News Feed, Pages, “Share” and “Like,” Facebook Ads, Facebook Platform and the initial translation of the site. In her role as a public spokesperson for Facebook, Brandee navigated through many challenges including rumors of buyouts, IPO and revenue speculation, government investigations, site outages and massive user protests around privacy issues. In contrast, Brandee also served as a consumer TV spokesperson and co-hosted the live web stream of the 2009 Golden Globes and American Music Awards.

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