Matt Hicks Biography

Matt Hicks is a Corporate Marketing and Strategic Communications Leader who helped build the communications team at Facebook and define its public voice as one of the first members of its PR team. Most recently he led social media and content strategy for its main communications channels, including the Facebook Blog official Facebook Page and Twitter account-which reach millions of people every day. Currently Matt works as Vice President, Executive Communications for the CEO at Zendesk and previously was an advisor to R to Z Studios the social marketing and production company founded by Randi Zuckerberg and an independent strategic consultant on social media and communications. His work with R to Z has included projects for the Clinton Global Initiative and Cirque du Soleil. He's also consulted with startups such as Chegg and Spotify and he's working on his first book about the impact of social media. A former journalist Matt moved into PR and marketing in 2005 to work with Silicon Valley startups first at ZENO Group and then SutherlandGold Group. Matt also helped launch YouTube publicly. In 2003 he served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow in Washington DC. He previously was a writer and editor for Ziff Davis Media and eWEEK in San Francisco and earlier worked at various daily newspapers. Matt graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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