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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued the following statement about the hire:
"Mike has a lot of experience building great products and engineering teams. At Mozilla, he built Firefox 3 and manages the product development process -- a particularly impressive position given the global, collaborative and open process in which Mozilla operates and develops its products. Facebook has similar values and Mike will be a great addition to our engineering team."
A number of early Facebook executives on the technical side have left recently, including CTO Adam D'Angelo and VP Product Management Matt Cohler. According to Facebook, the company is still looking to fill its VP Engineering role.
Schroepfer was named to PC World's "50 Most Important People on the Web" in 2007 and previously worked at Sun Microsystems, where he was chief technology officer for the company's data center automation division.