Kayvon Beykpour appointed as Twitter's product head
New York, June 30 (IBNS): Kayvon Beykpour, the former CEO of Twitter’s livestreaming service Periscope and its current GM of video, will be taking over as the new head of product for the popular micro-blogging website, media reports said on Saturday.
Technology news website Recode earlier reported that the executive shuffle was announced internally.
Ed Ho, the former VP of both product and engineering, has been on leave from the company since May; he is stepping down from his dual role and into a part-time role helping with Twitter’s safety and abuse efforts, reported Recode.
The news report further said that the company is splitting his job in two as Beykpour will oversee product and Mike Montano, who has been at Twitter since 2011 and recently oversaw engineering for Twitter’s product team, will take over engineering for the company.
Since 2014, Beykpour is going to be the sixth executive to run the Twitter product.
“We’re setting ourselves up for the future,” a company spokesperson told Recode about the changes. “Simplifying how we manage will help us make faster decisions and be more creative and inventive in what we build for the people and businesses who use Twitter.”
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