Mumbai: Chris Riedy, who previously held the designation of vice president – EMEA at Twitter, has now been made incharge as head of advertising sales at the company. He takes on the reins from Robin Wheeler who was sacked by Elon Musk for declining to lay off more members of his team.

As per his LinkedIn profile, Reidy has been with the social media giant for about a decade, and has about 25 years of experience across sales, marketing and business development. He has a Bachelor's degree in Arts (History) from Denison University in Granville, Ohio and is an MBA from Santa Clara University, California.

Riedy is currently based in Dublin.