Twitter CTO Agrawal Will Replace Dorsey As CEO, San Francisco, California, USA - 29 Nov 2021
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately. PARAG AGRAWAL, Twitter's chief technology officer, will take over the helm, the company said Monday. Parag Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 and served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since October 2017. As CTO, he was responsible for the Company's technical strategy, leading work to improve development velocity while advancing the state of Machine Learning across the company. Parag was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2021. Parag holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.