Join us for the first-ever Meta Partner Summit dedicated entirely to our EMEA partner ecosystem — an exclusive, invite-only event hosted at London's iconic Barbican Centre. The summit brings together senior executives and GTM practitioners for a day of EMEA-specific use cases and growth strategies, culminating in an awards ceremony recognising the partners shaping Business Messaging across the region. Come ready to be celebrated, inspired, and equipped to accelerate growth in EMEA.
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How to find us:
Enter via the Silk Street entrance (ground floor).
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From Barbican or Farringdon:
Head west towards the Beech Street tunnel → turn right onto Silk Street.
From Liverpool Street or Moorgate:
Head east towards Ropemaker Street → turn left onto Moor Lane → turn right onto Silk Street.
Once inside:
Walk through the main lobby, follow the L-shaped route to the lifts at the far end (by the Lakeside Terrace). Take the lifts — or the stairs just behind them — to level 4.
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Tarcisio Ribeiro is currently Senior Director of Business Development and Partnership Management for Meta. His team works with partners with different capabilities to complement Meta’s advertising solutions and create mutual value to better serve Meta’s clients.
Prior to this, he managed Meta’s relationships with mobile operators and the global connectivity initiatives aimed at increasing connectivity and improving user experience.
Before joining Meta, Tarcisio held senior leadership roles in sales, product management, service and marketing working for telecom infrastructure providers, and accumulated expertise on a diverse array of technologies.
He is also a board member of Internet para Todos, a joint venture between Meta and Telefonica providing Network as a Service to operators in Peru bringing connectivity to users in remote areas of the Amazon.
He holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from Escola de Engenharia Maua in Brazil and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business in Chicago, and lived in Brazil, United States and Europe. He currently lives in Miami with his wife and twin daughters and has a passion for sports and technology.
Susan Rose is the Director of Product Management at Meta, leading our Meta Business Agent solutions for Enterprises and Partners. Prior to this role, Susan led our foundational Business Messaging product teams across Paid Messaging and Click-to-Message ads, including our APIs, interfaces, ranking & signals and ecosystem capabilities.
Previously, Susan was the Director of Business Product Marketing at Meta, leading advertising and monetization for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as new business lines of Business Messaging and Business AI agents. Prior to joining Facebook in 2012, Susan was an analyst in Lehman Brothers’ private equity division. Susan has a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia, an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Jitin Khurana is Senior Director of Global Business Development at Meta, where he leads partnerships across Ads, Commerce/Shopping, Business AI, and Messaging - working with global clients and partners to strike meaningful partnerships that drive mutual value for Meta and its partners. With over six years at Meta, Jitin has held progressive leadership roles building and scaling some of the company's most strategic technology and monetization partnerships worldwide. Prior to Meta, he spent seven years at Google leading BD & Strategic Partnerships for Platforms and Ecosystems. Jitin holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He is based in Meta's Menlo Park headquarters in California.
Susan Rose is the Director of Product Management at Meta, leading our Meta Business Agent solutions for Enterprises and Partners. Prior to this role, Susan led our foundational Business Messaging product teams across Paid Messaging and Click-to-Message ads, including our APIs, interfaces, ranking & signals and ecosystem capabilities.
Previously, Susan was the Director of Business Product Marketing at Meta, leading advertising and monetization for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as new business lines of Business Messaging and Business AI agents. Prior to joining Facebook in 2012, Susan was an analyst in Lehman Brothers’ private equity division. Susan has a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia, an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Ibrahim Mutahar is Head of Products for Salla Ads at Salla, the largest e-commerce platform in the MENA region. A founder turned product leader, he created Sweply, an ad tech startup acquired by Salla, and now builds the technology that connects merchants with their customers through advertising. His work sits at the intersection of commerce, ad tech, and AI, with a focus on making advanced advertising technology more accessible to merchants across the region.
Nitish Kumar is a Business Engineer for Enterprise AI and Agents at Meta, based in London, where he leads enterprise onboarding for Meta Business Agent. He works hands-on alongside some of the largest brands in India and EMEA to design, build and tune AI agents on WhatsApp, taking them from first prototype to production. Before moving to enterprise, Nitish was the founding engineering lead for Meta Business Agents within Meta's ads products, taking the initiative from pre-alpha to scaled testing with advertisers worldwide. He joined Meta in 2022 and focuses on turning AI into measurable business results from day one.
Russell Pert is a Group Director at Meta, leading the company's UK strategic partnerships across the Travel, Entertainment, Technology, and Financial Services sectors. He also spearheads the UK WhatsApp Business Messaging strategy programme, bringing businesses closer to their customers than ever before. In this role, he advises senior leaders on growth strategies across Meta's ecosystem, with a particular focus on the application of AI and automation technologies.
Prior to Meta, Russell spent over a decade at Barclays Bank, where he held a series of senior digital roles spanning customer acquisition, channel strategy, and brand management. He went on to lead the digital transformation of the bank's Southern European business.
With a deep passion for marketing and technology, Russell is driven by reimagining how people and businesses connect, create, and grow.
