Twitter vice president of media for the Asia-Pacific region, Middle East and North Africa Rishi Jaitly is leaving the company later this month.
Jaitly announced the move in a series of tweets (embedded below), saying that after four years with the social network, he was “sharing my intention to move on to new opportunities, same mission,” and describing that mission as to “harness tech and media’s scale to connect users and citizens to their voices, agencies and leadership in places they care about.”
Building/leading @TwitterIndia, and expanding @TwitterMedia across Asia Pacific & Middle East, was the leadership experience of a lifetime.
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
Today, after 4 years of user/business momentum in India & the region, I’m sharing my intention to move on to new opportunities, same mission
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
My mission remains the same: harness tech/media’s scale to connect users/citizens to their voice/agency/leadership in places they care about
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
I myself care deeply about the United States, India, emerging markets & intend to devote myself to building bridges in service of my mission
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
While a personal/civic calling takes me to Chicago, I’ll spend significant time in India/Asia, drawing on my past to further tech's promise.
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
I’ll always be grateful to @shaileshrao for believing in me, to @KatieS for her trust and to @dickc for leaning into our global opportunity.
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
My teams led deals immersing @twitter in national zeitgeists, scaled our user base/business, reimagined the product & entered new markets.
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
In the end though I was most inspired by @twitter’s users & partners in India, Asia & beyond for believing in this mobile microphone of ours
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
You taught and you pushed. You grew with us and, often, made us look good. Your commitment to this mission assures me we’ll remain partners.
— Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) November 1, 2016
Prior to joining Twitter in 2012, Jaitly was the director of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and he also served as head of public-private partnerships at Google India.
Twitter said in a statement, as reported by Mashable:
We thank Rishi Jaitly for his contributions, entrepreneurship and leadership over the past four years at Twitter. He was our first person on the ground to bring Twitter into the high-growth Indian market. He has created bold, strategic partnerships to enter and grow new markets for Twitter, and he has successfully built up our media partnerships teams across the Asia-Pacific and Middle East.
Readers: What are your thoughts on the latest departure from Twitter?
Image courtesy of Rishi Jaitly’s LinkedIn profile.
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