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Parag is the Chief Technology Officer, leading technical strategy for the company and overseeing machine learning and AI across our consumer, revenue, and science teams. Since joining Twitter in 2011, Parag has led efforts on scaling Ads systems, as well as re-accelerating user growth by improving Home timeline relevance.
Prior to joining Twitter, Parag did research in large-scale data management with collaborators at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and AT&T Labs. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from IIT, Bombay and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Leslie Berland is Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for Twitter’s global consumer, product, and sales marketing and communications. As Head of People, Leslie leads Twitter's Human Resources, Recruitment, and Learning and Organizational Development teams.
Prior to joining the company in 2016, she was Executive Vice President, Global Advertising, Marketing & Digital Partnerships at American Express. Having joined American Express in 2005, Leslie led a global team responsible for creating marketplace demand and driving commerce through differentiated products, marketing, and customer experiences globally. As a member of the company’s global management team, Leslie oversaw advertising, media, sponsorships, content, brand identity, and digital partnerships. Earlier in her career, Leslie led PR and online communications strategies for global brands on the agency side.
Leslie earned a B.S. from Boston University’s College of Communications.
Kayvon Beykpour leads video product, overseeing live content, video and Periscope, a live video platform which he co-founded where people can create, watch, discover and share live video.
Prior to Periscope, he co-founded TerriblyClever Design LLC, a software company that was sold to Blackboard Inc. Following the acquisition, Kayvon led Blackboard’s mobile division for four years where he grew its team from five to more than one hundred employees and helped the company become one of the most downloaded apps in the education industry.
Kayvon attended Stanford and graduated with a degree in computer science.
Matt is Global Vice President of Revenue and Partnerships at Twitter, overseeing the company’s ad revenue organizations, including global advertising sales, global content partnerships, live content and revenue operations.
Prior to joining Twitter, Matt served in various leadership roles at Google. Matt also worked at The Weather Channel Companies, leading marketing solutions for their largest revenue teams.
Matt holds a B.A. in English from Georgetown University and is an inductee in the Advertising Hall of Achievement.
Jack Dorsey co-founded Twitter, Inc. in 2006, and returned as Chief Executive Officer in September 2015. Additionally, Jack co-founded Square, where he serves as CEO and Chairman.
Bruce Falck is the General Manager of Revenue Product, overseeing the strategy and execution of advertising products for marketers on Twitter. For over two decades, Bruce Falck has built a deep understanding of monetization and digital advertising. He was most recently CEO of Turn which sold to Singtel/Amobee. Prior to Turn he was COO of BrightRoll, the leading Programmatic Video Ads platform which sold to Yahoo. He also spent 8 years at Google, where he helped build and lead multiple billion-dollar-plus advertising businesses including the Google Display Network, DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM), and Google’s Advertising Exchange.
Bruce graduated from Stellenbosch University in South Africa with a degree in Computer Science.
Vijaya Gadde (VIJ-ee-yah GAD-ee) is Twitter’s legal, public policy, and trust & safety lead. She previously served as a Legal Director at Twitter, where she managed the international and corporate legal teams. Prior to joining Twitter in 2011, Vijaya was Senior Director, Legal at Juniper Networks; previously, for nearly a decade, she was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. While at WSGR, Vijaya acted as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange’s Proxy Working Group and Committee on Corporate Governance.
Vijaya earned a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Ed Ho is the General Manager of Twitter’s Consumer Product and Engineering Group, where he leads the team responsible for developing and operating the Twitter product. He has held engineering positions at Google, Yahoo!, IBM’s Almaden Research Center, and Sony U.S. Research Labs. At Yahoo, he was a co-inventor of the Yahoo! Pipes product. Subsequently, he worked for Google for five years as a Staff Software Engineer and Director of Product Management, leading the development of multiple social products. After leaving Google in 2012, he co-founded and was CTO of Cover (www.coverscreen.com). Cover was acquired by Twitter in 2014.
Ed holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from East Tennessee State University.
Grace Kim is Vice President of Design and User Research at Twitter and leads its consumer and business-facing product design and research efforts. Prior to joining Twitter in 2011, Grace was a Principal Research Manager at Adobe Systems where she spent nine years overseeing research teams in both User Experience and Marketing. Grace was a founding member of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom team and regularly partnered with Adobe’s Entrepreneurs in Residence to identify promising new business opportunities. Early in her career, Grace spent several years at Sapient conducting international research for numerous global brands.
Grace holds a Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and a Masters degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow.
Ned Segal is Twitter's Chief Financial Officer, overseeing the company's finance, accounting, corporate development, corporate security, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), investor relations, real estate & workplace, internal audit, tax and treasury areas of the business. Prior to joining Twitter, Ned was Senior Vice President of Finance for Intuit's Small Business Group. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of RPX (NASDAQ: RPXC), the leader in patent risk management solutions to technology companies around the world, and spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, eventually serving as Managing Director, Head of Global Software Investment Banking.
Focusing on growth while maintaining an open platform demands a skilled executive team that embraces a challenge. It also requires a board of directors that promotes our mission as well as protects our financial goals. At Twitter, we are fortunate to have both.
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