Dick Costolo, CEO van Twitter Inc. stapt op, Jack Dorsey weer CEO
Twitter – opgericht maart 2006 – heeft na de beursgang en de introductie van diverse diensten nog niet het succes waar vooral aandeelhouders op hadden gehoopt. Per 1 juli 2015 zal Costolo – op eigen initiatief – Twitter verlaten, zo meldt Twitter:
“Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that Dick Costolo has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, effective July 1, 2015. Twitter’s Board of Directors has named Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, to serve as Interim CEO while the Board conducts a search for Twitter’s next CEO. Costolo will continue to serve on Twitter’s Board of Directors, and Dorsey will continue to serve as CEO of Square, Inc., the payments and financial services company he co-founded in 2009. Twitter’s Board has formed a Search Committee to lead the search for a permanent CEO. The Search Committee is chaired by the Board’s Lead Independent Director, Peter Currie, and includes Peter Fenton and Evan Williams. The Committee will retain a leading executive search firm to assist in conducting a global search, which will consider both internal and external candidates for the CEO position.”
De reactie van de oud-CEO Costolo: “I am tremendously proud of the Twitter team and all that the team has accomplished together during my six years with the Company. We have great leaders who work well together and a clear strategy that informs our objectives and priorities. There is no one better than Jack Dorsey to lead Twitter during this transition. He has a profound understanding of the product and Twitter’s mission in the world as well as a great relationship with Twitter’s leadership team. I am deeply appreciative of the confidence the Board, the management team and the employees have placed in me over the years, and I look forward to supporting Twitter however I can going forward.”
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Twitter is op zoek naar een nieuwe CEO die het bedrijf winstgevend kan maken. Ook de omzet-cijfers van de tweede kwartaal 2015 zijn veel lager dan verwacht.
