Iranian American Ali Rowghani becomes Chief Operating Officer at Twitter
After Salar Kamangar (CEO of Youtube) and Amin Zoufonoun (Facebook's Director of Corporate Development), another Iranian American assumes a key executive position with a global technology firm. In a move that shuffles some of the highest ranking members of the micro blogging start-up’s executive team, Iranian American Ali Rowghani has been named chief operating officer of Twitter, according to a change in his Twitter profile, shifting into the role that CEO Dick Costolo once held only a few years ago. Ali was at Pixar for more than nine years, serving as CFO for half that time, as AllThingsD.com reports.
Rowghani has often been noted as the quiet, behind-the-scenes body man, taking on far more operational responsibilities than that of typical CFOs. Rowghani has had his hand in many important areas of the business, including contributing ideas around Twitter’s Promoted Suite of ad products, a key component of the company’s monetization efforts. So effectively, Rowghani as COO is less of a new role than it is a solidification of his current efforts— a title change, as it were.
Ali joined Pixar in 2001 and has held a variety of finance positions at the studio. He was appointed Director of Pixar’s Production Finance and Strategy group in 2004. Before joining Pixar, Ali was an Associate at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. During his time at McKinsey, Ali was based for nine months in Germany. He later spent one year in Japan with McKinsey Global Institute, the Firm’s renowned economics think tank.
Ali holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Business Administration degree, both from Stanford University. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and spent a year studying at the University of Bonn in Germany. Born in Iran, Ali moved to Dallas, TX with this family when he was five years old. He remains a huge fan of the Dallas Cowboys.
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