Facebook's Director of Corporate Communications Brandee Barker has announced that she is departing the company she joined more than four years ago to start her own early-stage business consulting firm.
"After 4+ incredible years at Facebook, I have decided to leave to start my own business consulting early stage tech companies," Barker posted on her Facebook wall.
In an interview with BoomTown, Barker said that she prefers working with early-stage companies. She recently returned to Facebook after a six month maternity leave, which gave her time to evaluate what she wanted to do next.
Barker was employee number 120 at the world's largest social network. She actually joined right before Facebook's first major privacy fiasco, the launch of News Feed (as she'll attest, I quickly made her life very difficult).