Twitter replaces house member who left for Microsoft with ex-Google CFO
Crossing a amicable media divides isn’t common in Silicon Valley, so it’s important that Twitter and Microsoft have played a mark of low-pitched chairs with their boards.
Twitter house member Hugh Johnston — day job: Pepsi clamp authority and CFO — has left Twitter’s house to join Microsoft’s house as of today. Johnston’s deputy during a microblogging association is Patrick Pichette, a former CFO of Google.
No earlier was Johnston’s new purpose announced by Microsoft, so Twitter was trumpeting a possess new addition, Canada-born Pichette, who served as Google CFO between 2008 and 2015.
Big news: Patrick @Pichette is fasten a Twitter Board! Welcome Patrick! Thrilled to have you.
— jack (@jack) Sep 19, 2017
Twitter already has another former Googler on a house in a form of Omid Kordestani, a executive chairman, who assimilated in 2015.
Thrilled to join a Board of Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft), a association we have prolonged admired.
— Hugh Johnston (@hughjohnston) Sep 19, 2017
Twitter (@twitter) has a transparent goal and clever care group and, as we leave a Board, we wish a association continued success.
— Hugh Johnston (@hughjohnston) Sep 19, 2017
The trigger of these changes appears to be a preference of Microsoft house member G. Mason Morfit, boss and arch investment officer of ValueAct Capital, to not find re-election.
Microsoft’s house includes association owner Bill Gates, Greylock’s Reid Hoffman, Teri L. List-Stoll from Gap, and Bank Of America’s Charles H. Nosk among others. The Twitter board, meanwhile, includes Peter Chernin, Martha Lane Fox, CEO Jack Dorsey and others.
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