Brett Wein joined Facebook in September 2009 and is one of the key personnel responsible for managing the direct sales efforts in the New York metropolitan region. In his role, Brett leads a team focused on developing and servicing strategic relationships with key Fortune 100 clients and advertising agencies. Brett has extensive sales and marketing experience with media companies including Yahoo, Overture, Ask.com and BMG Entertainment. Brett received his B.A. from the University of Maryland College Park. Originally from Philadelphia PA, Brett currently calls Darien, CT home with his wife and four children

Facebook is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities.

Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

The founders had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before it opened to high-school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.