Alexis B. Björlin

Dr. Alexis B. Björlin is Vice President of global infrastructure hardware at Meta and is based in the Menlo Park campus. She leads the team that shapes Meta’s cutting-edge data center’s compute hardware, including silicon custom products. Her team builds the next evolution in social technology, where billions of people will someday come together in the Metaverse.

Dr. Björlin served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the optical systems division at Broadcom, where she led the business unit responsible for developing and manufacturing devices used in optical communications. Prior to Broadcom, Björlin was corporate Vice President and General Manager of the data center connectivity group at Intel, where she oversaw three business units: the networking division, the high-performance computing fabric division, and the silicon photonics division. While at Intel, Dr. Björlin commercialized Intel’s silicon photonics technology, served on the board of directors for the Intel capital diversity initiative, and was a frequent speaker and advocate for women and diversity in technology. Prior to Intel, she served as President and a member of the board of directors for Source Photonics, a private equity-owned, global fiber optics manufacturer. She currently serves on the Digital Realty and Celestial AI board of directors.

Dr. Björlin holds a BS in materials science & engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.