Maria Angelidou-Smith has been named CEO of Mojang and Minecraft at Xbox, starting October 19, 2026. She was previously Chief Product Officer at Reddit (from November 2025), and before that led product and technology as Chief Product & Technology Officer at Personio. She spent nearly a decade at Meta, where she led Facebook Groups (used by more than 1.8 billion people each month) as well as Events, Creators, Search, Profile and Monetization. A native of Greece, she holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, where she was a Fulbright scholar, and a bachelor's degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Maria Angelidou-Smith has been named CEO of Mojang and Minecraft at Xbox, starting October 19, 2026. She was previously Chief Product Officer at Reddit (from November 2025), and before that led product and technology as Chief Product & Technology Officer at Personio. She spent nearly a decade at Meta, where she led Facebook Groups (used by more than 1.8 billion people each month) as well as Events, Creators, Search, Profile and Monetization. A native of Greece, she holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, where she was a Fulbright scholar, and a bachelor's degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business.