San Francisco Sep 20 (IANS) Twitter has added Patrick Pichette who served as Google s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from 2008 to 2015 to its board of directors.
Pichette will replace Hugh Johnston the CFO of Pepsi who joined Twitter s board last year technology news website Recode reported late on Tuesday.
According to Securities and Exchange Commission filing Pichette s term will begin on December 1 the report added.
Pichette is the second well-known Google executive to join Twitter s board after longtime Google executive Omid Kordestani who joined Twitter as the chairman in 2015.
Earlier India-born Sriram Krishnan a former top executive from Facebook and Snap was hired by Twitter as its senior director of product.
Krishnan who will join the company on October 2 shared the news in a series of tweets on Tuesday.
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