Powerful Women in Tech

Orna is a Director of Technical Program Management, supporting about 60 people, at Facebook's Infrastructure team. Her team manages all programs in Core Data - and DevInfra Tooling. Before her 2 year tenure at Facebook, Orna worked as a Director of Program Management at Google Cloud, and at VMware. Orna multiple Program Management Offices for the networking and the CTO teams, and while doing so, specialized in distributed systems, virtualizations and cross-company projects between Dell, VMware, Pivotal and RSA.

Before VMware, she was responsible for the first release of Nvidia’s chip for the first Surface Tablet, and shipped multiple GPU releases downloaded by over 30 million users. She spent 5 years at Electronic Art leading large eng. and artist groups building The Sims games, with 3 shipping titles, including My Sims, and Sims 3 Expansion.

She studied at Stanford (Engineering Certificate), USF (Masters in Org. Development.) and Haifa University (English Language and teaching).

Orna loves mountains (Everest base camp, Kalapathar and Mt. Whitney) and wild rivers (Futaleufu, American, MagPie), all with her 4 children and husband - we are happy it is not the reverse!

Nina joined from Unilever, where she was global Chief Privacy Officer and General Counsel, Data Protection, handling all aspects of privacy globally. She sits on the Responsible Marketing Committee of the UK’s Data & Marketing Association and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ Research Advisory Group, working on big data. She is former president and chair of In-House Counsel Worldwide and is past chair of the UK’s commerce and industry group, representing UK in-house counsel.

In her spare time, she volunteers as Chair of the management committee of a youth group in Twickenham, Middlesex.

Fun fact: she has started numerous knitting “projects”, but her 2 children (aged 27 and 23) have despaired of her ever finishing one!

Natasha is an experienced Senior I.T executive with a history of working in large global tech multinationals, directing global teams. At Facebook Natasha manages a distributed team in Ireland, Sweden and Denmark to operate Facebook’s Data Centres.

Having experience across a wide range of industries, Natasha joined Facebook from Linkedin last October, having worked remotely since she started. She is a strong strategic thinker with experience of planning, directing and managing global teams, across Infrastructure Architecture, Operations, Software Development, IT Support, Service Delivery and Programs.

In her spare time, Natasha loves spending time with her daughters, working out, reading, travelling, playing guitar and singing.

Previously a Software Engineer in the Anti-malware and Cyber Security space.

Started as a Production Engineer within Facebook Infrastructure working on systems that have as main goal to help keep a healthy state of the global fleet without human intervention. After 2.5y transitioned to Engineering Management, supporting the Repairs team in providing an efficient, fully automated and self-adaptable repair process in order to maximise the availability of every asset within the fleet.

Passionate about solving problems and simplifying processes, highly attracted to any remotely dangerous sport, deeply invested into physical and mental health as well as human connection.

Michal Singer is a a Group Technical Program Manager (aka getting s#%\t done) at Facebook Tel Aviv, working on infra connectivity projects to connect the unconnected.

Michal originally joined FB with the Onavo acquisition 8 years ago and before that spent a few years in different startups, playing in the data world. She did her BA, MA and is now working on her PhD in Technology & Education.

When not at work, Michal loves a good book, strong coffee, fine wine, traveling, creating things and time with her dog and husband.

Hadar is a Security Engineering Manager at the Internal Detection & Response group. He has 12 years of experience in cyber security, with 8 of those years focused on digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), both in the Israeli Air Force and in the private sector.

Before joining Facebook, he was a security researcher for Illusive Network, where he searched for new deception techniques and researched new digital forensics artefacts.

Hadar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Holon Institute of Technology, and several certifications, including the GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA). In his free time he likes to cook, develop open source forensic tools and solve forensic challenges.