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Twitter is losing the\u00a0head of its Asia Pacific business, Aliza Knox, after she announced the end of her near-five year tenure with the company.<\/p>\n
Knox was Twitter\u2019s first hire in Asia \u2014 minus\u00a0Japan \u2014 when she joined the company in 2012<\/a>.\u00a0(Twitter runs its Japan business separate from its APAC operations.)\u00a0Prior to that, she\u00a0spent five years at Google, rising to the position of\u00a0APAC MD of commerce.<\/p>\n Knox built out\u00a0Twitter\u2019s presence in Asia, which started with an office in Singapore (now APAC HQ) and currently\u00a0spans nine locations (including Tokyo) and over 100 staff. In addition, her team developed the firm\u2019s regional advertising and partnership businesses.<\/p>\n Her exit\u00a0comes on the back of the loss of\u00a0a number of high-profile Asia-based executives last year. Those departures\u00a0included China head Kathy Chen<\/a>, head of India and Southeast Asia Parminder Singh<\/a>, India lead Rishi Jaitly<\/a>, and Australia country boss\u00a0Karen Stocks<\/a>. Other changes for Twitter\u2019s Asia business included the elimination\u00a0of\u00a0around 20 jobs\u00a0from its\u00a0Bangalore office<\/a>\u00a0in September, and a number of roles were \u201ctransitioned\u201d<\/a>\u00a0from its\u00a0Hong Kong office to the\u00a0regional headquarters\u00a0in Singapore.<\/p>\n Singapore-based Knox will remain with Twitter for the next couple of weeks, the company confirmed, during which she will handover to\u00a0Maya Hari<\/a>, previously Twitter\u2019s MD of India and Southeast Asia, who will\u00a0replace her in the APAC leadership role.<\/p>\n \u201cWe thank Aliza<\/span> for her contributions and leadership over the past four years and a half years. She pioneered Twitter\u2019s Asia Pacific business (outside of Japan), championed our expansion into new markets and businesses such as Indonesia and China export advertising, set up our Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, and led our diversity initiatives across the region,\u201d Twitter said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/alizak2.jpg?w=680\")
Twitter is losing the\u00a0head of its Asia Pacific business, Aliza Knox, after she announced the end of her near-five year tenure with the company. Knox was Twitter’s first hire in Asia — minus\u00a0Japan — when she joined the company in 2012.\u00a0(Twitter runs its Japan business separate from its APAC operations.)\u00a0Prior to that, she\u00a0spent five years at Google, rising to the… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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