Mumbai Nov 30 PTI Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on Tuesday congratulated its alumnus Parag Agrawal on his elevation as CEO of the microblogging giant Twitter Congratulations to our alumnus Dr Parag Agrawal for being appointed the new CEO of Twitter Dr Agrawal obtained his BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2005 He started working at Twitter in 2011 became the CTO in 2017 the institute tweeted Mumbai-born Parags mother is a retired school teacher His father was employed in the atomic energy sector and held senior positions there Parag 37 studied at the Atomic Energy Central School in Mumbai He moved to the United States in 2005 In 2011 he joined Twitter while still pursuing his PhD at Stanford University Twitters outgoing CEO Dorsey announced on Monday that Agrawal will be the companys new chief executive as he stepped down after 16 years at the company that he co-founded and helmed PTI ND VT VT VT
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