Jack Chen

Jack is an Associate General Counsel for Facebook (Meta) and happens to be blind.  Jack received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science from Harvard and Berkeley, respectively. Jack worked for a startup as an computer engineer and received forty patents on a range of computer technologies.  During that time, Jack attended law school in the evenings and eventually joined google as legal counsel in 2010. In 2021, Facebook hired Jack to lead their ads legal team, supporting the lifeblood of Facebook’s $120b monetization engine.

Jack has served on numerous boards of non-profit and for-profit organizations, including his current role on the board of Smart Jobs, a tech accelerator for technology to help people with disabilities. Jack is an avid athlete. He has tackled the Inca trail, Mt. Kilimanjaro, the Florida and New York Ironman triathlons, and in June 2018, Jack and his team of blind professionals became the first all blind, cycling team to complete the cross-country Race Across America race in just seven days. They produced a full length documentary based on the race to tackle the 70% unemployment rate for people who are blind. (www.surpassingsight.com). He is regularly featured in corporate talks, television, radio, and webcasts including with Oracle, JP Morgan, Google, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, NPR, TedX, the National Federation of the Blind and others.

“Do what the world tells you you can’t do” is one of the key mottos that Jack lives by.

Jack lives in Princeton with his wife Teresa and four boys.