A group of Apple employees are calling for an investigation into the recent hiring of former Facebook ad manager Antonio Garcia Martinez, citing concerns about "misogynistic statements" that he made.
Apple has hired former Facebook ads product manager, Antonio Garcia Martinez, according to Business Insider. He’s also a best-selling author and tech entrepreneur, the CEO-founder of AdGrok, and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.
After studying physics in the University of California, Berkeley, Martínez started working at Goldman Sachs in September 2005. After leaving the multinational investment bank and financial services company in March 2008, he started working at Adchemy which helps online brands scale ecommerce revenue acquisition as a research scientist in April 2008. After leaving Adchemy in May 2010, Martínez founded AdGrok, an advertising platform enabling business owners to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords on Google AdWords.