With Jack Dorsey exiting the chief executive’s role at Twitter, the company’s board of directors unanimously voted to name Parag Agrawal as CEO and a member of the board, effective immediately.
But for many people who are not actively following the company, the response to the news might have been “Parag Who?”
Major Promotion
The Indian-born Agrawal received his Bachelor’s in Technology from IIT Bombay and a Master’s in Science and Ph.D. from Stanford University in California. Agrawal held research intern positions at Microsoft, Yahoo! and AT&T Labs prior to joining Twitter in October 2011 as an advertisements engineer.
