After Google’s reorganisation into Alphabet Inc in August, Kordestani stepped down to take over the role of advisor at Alphabet. Kordestani played a key role in building Google as a business and has served a variety of roles at the search giant since 1999.
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Omid Kordestani, who until recently was Google’s chief business officer, is now executive chairman of Twitter, filling the last vacant spot in the company’s leadership.
Kordestani has also worked as a vice president at Netscape and Hewlett Packard, previously sat on Spotify’s board of directors and was a non-executive at Vodafone until 2014.
Kordestani tweeted that he was excited to work with Dorsey, COO Adam Bain, CFO Anthony Noto and rest of the team.
What’s interesting is that as speculation was ramping up in the last couple of months around who would become Twitter’s head honcho, we’d heard that Twitter had whittled the list down to two: Dorsey and someone at Google. The company launched a Moments feature capturing top stories across news, sports and other categories.
The social media company’s reinstated chief executive officer Jack Dorsey, fresh from cutting 8% of Twitter’s global workforce as part of his restructuring plan, announced the appointment in a Tweet.
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Twitter’s stock, which got a bump on yesterday’s news, is up again slightly in trading this morning.
