Agrawal, who was named Monday to succeed Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, is 37, the same age as Meta Platform Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Citing security concerns, Twitter did not disclose Agrawal’s date of birth, but confirmed that he was born later in 1984 than Zuckerberg’s birthday on May 14.
Dorsey, at 45, was already one of a dozen youngest CEOs in the collection of America’s biggest companies.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. CEO Warren Buffett, is the oldest CEO in the S&P 500 at 91, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The average age of a CEO among the 500 largest companies was about 58 years, the data show. But the broader trend in CEO age still doesn’t favor youth.
Data on S&P 500 companies measured over the last two decades by executive recruiter Spencer Stuart shows a small but steady increase in the age of the CEO.
“Twitter is now executing against an ambitious multi-year plan to dramatically increase the company’s reach and value, and we look forward to the next chapter of Twitter’s story,” the company’s managing partner Jesse Cohn and senior portfolio manager Marc Steinberg said.
Parag Agrawal the CEO of Twitter :
Parag Agrawal was Twitter’s technology expert before he was named as the platform’s CEO and is now the latest India-origin person to lead a US tech giant.
Parag Agrawal, educated in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and with a PhD from California’s Stanford University, joined Twitter in 2011. He became its CTO by 2017.
As the head of technology at the firm, he oversaw machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as the company’s broad technical strategy.
Agrawal was also head of the company’s “Bluesky” push to create a more open and decentralised standard for social media.