Snap Inc Hires Jacqueline Beauchere as First Global Head of Platform Safety
September 16, 2021 at 09:15 pm IST
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Snap Inc. hired Jacqueline Beauchere as first global head of platform safety. In addition to her role at Microsoft, Beauchere currently represents the technology industry as the international policy board member of the WeProtect Global Alliance, launched by the U.K. government in 2015. She is a member of INHOPE's Advisory Board, and serves on the international steering committee of the anti-hate and ani-bullying initiative, the Power of Zero. She has previously served as Microsoft's representative to the National Cyber Security Alliance, the Technology Coalition, and the Family Online Safety Institute, among others. Beauchere has spent over 20 years at Microsoft leading the company's commitment to safer, more trusted online experiences for people of all ages and technical abilities. Last month, the UK government awarded Beauchere a prestigious honor as a Member to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of her decades-long work on child online protection and more recently her contributions to combatting terrorism and violent extremism in the digital space primary through the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism.
Snap Inc. is a technology company. Its product, Snapchat, is a visual messaging application that enhances relationships with friends, family, and the world. Snapchat is the Company's core mobile device application and contains five tabs, complemented by additional tools that function outside of the application. Snapchatters can interact with all five, or a subset of those five tabs. Additionally, the Company offers Snapchat+, its subscription product that provides subscribers access to exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features. Snapchat+ offers a range of features from allowing Snapchatters to customize the look and feel of their application, to giving special insights into their friendships. It also offers Snapchat for Web, a browser-based product that brings Snapchats calling and messaging capabilities to the Web. Its advertising products include AR Ads, AR Lenses and Snap Ads. Snap Ads include Single Image or Video Ads, Story Ads, Collection Ads, Dynamic Ads and Commercials.