After Jack Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), declared his resignation on Monday, the firm named Indian-American Parag Agrawal as his replacement.
Parag Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 and has been the company's chief technical officer since 2017. As per his profile on the Twitter leadership page, Parag Agrawal was accountable for the microblogging platform's Technical Strategy, Machine Learning, computing, Consumer, Revenue, and Science teams as the chief technology officer.
"My trust in Parag as Twitter's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is deep. His hard work over the past ten years has been transformational," Dorsey said in an exceeding statement. "It's his time to guide," he added.
"The world is looking at us straight away, even over they need before. a lot of individuals square measure planning to have a lot of completely different views and opinions concerning today's news. It's as a result of they care concerning Twitter and our future, and it is a signal that the work we have a tendency to do here matters. Let's show the globe Twitter's full potential!" Agrawal said in an exceeding statement once Jack Dorsey declared his appointment.
Who Is Parag Agarwal?
According to his LinkedIn bio, Parag Agrawal holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
According to Twitter's leadership page, Parag Agrawal joined the firm as a "Distinguished Software Engineer" in 2011 and was promoted to CTO in 2017. Parag command prime positions at Microsoft analysis, Yahoo! analysis, and AT&T Labs before connecting Jack Dorsey's firm.