Personal Life of Omid Kordestani, Executive Chairman at Twitter

 On July 18, 2014, Kordestani came back to Google to fill the vacancy of Chief Business Officer at Google after Nikesh Arora, who was recruited to Google by Kordestani himself, left for SoftBank. Initially interim, his post became permanent in October. On October 14, 2015, Kordestani left Google and became Executive Chairman at Twitter.

Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, on Feb. 2017. The Iranian-born businessman grew up in San Jose and was Google’s chief business officer before moving to Twitter in 2015.