Pan heads to California for Facebook role

SHANGHAI - Chris Pan, the former interactive marketing director of Pepsi China, has joined Facebook as a member of its product marketing and monetisation team.

Pan will work for the popular social networking site, based in California. Pan left PepsiCo after a two-year stint earlier this year (Media 21 March) to set up a youth marketing content business.

Before joining Pepsi in 2005 - as marketing director, interactive & new initiatives - Harvard-educated Pan worked at McKinsey & Company as a business analyst in the US.