In brief
Adam Mosseri (born January 23, 1983) is an American technology executive serving as the head of Instagram, a social media platform owned by Meta Platforms, since October 1, 2018. He oversees engineering, product development, and operations for the service, which has grown to approximately 3 billion monthly active users under his leadership.
Adam Mosseri was born on January 23, 1983, in New York City to a father of Egyptian-Jewish descent born in Cairo and an Irish Catholic mother. His father, an Israeli citizen who attended a French school in Egypt before the expulsion of Jews from the country in the mid-20th century, later worked as a psychotherapist specializing in parental and marriage counseling. Mosseri's mother was an architect.
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