Twitter India Head Taranjeet Singh Quits; Balaji Krish Is New Interim Chief

Taranjeet Singh, who was elevated as Twitter's State Managing director for India in May 2017, has decided to move on.

In a series of tweets late on Tuesday, Singh announced his resignation, saying that Balaji Krish, Twitter'southward Global Caput of Acquirement Strategy and Operations, will become the interim country caput.

"Hello everyone, later iv amazing years, I have decided to movement on from @TwitterIndia — from being 1 of the commencement @Twitter employees in #India, to building upward the sales team from the ground up, to leading our expansion and investments equally the India Country Director," Singh said.

He was earlier leading the charge for sales and marketing support for Twitter's advertisers in India.

"Republic of india is one of our largest and fastest growing markets worldwide today. We have hired many Tweeps at @TwitterIndia, diversified our client base beyond the country and go on to be the pulse of Indian society," Singh said.

Before joining Twitter, Singh was sales director, Southward Asia for BBC Advertising. Prior to the BBC, he held various positions at Outlook Publishing.

I'll spend the adjacent month transitioning my country duties to colleague and friend @BalajiKrish, our global head of revenue strategy and operations. He's coming from the Us to be acting country lead until my replacement is hired. We'll ensure that @Twitter won't miss a beat here

— Taranjeet Singh (@taranjeet24) September 4, 2018

"I'll spend the side by side month transitioning my country duties to colleague and friend @BalajiKrish, our global caput of revenue strategy and operations.

"He's coming from the US to exist interim land lead until my replacement is hired," Singh informed.

During his career, he saw the launch of "Twitter Lite", a more than attainable, faster and affordable way to go existent-fourth dimension information.

When it comes to Twitter'southward alignment with the government, the micro-blogging platform is working with the government on real-time citizen engagement through "Twitter Seva".

"As an India-showtime innovation, 'Twitter Seva' is currently existence used by the Ministry building of Commerce (@DIPPGOI), the Ministry building of Railways (@RailMinIndia) and the Section of Telecommunications (@Dot_India) nether the Ministry of Communication," Singh had said in an IANS interview.

Twitter also explored new revenue streams and ways of innovation in Republic of india during Singh'south career.

"The launch of Twitter Data' services in APAC with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific as the showtime client in the region is one such step and India is i of the focus markets for this," Singh said.