angel: TikTok’s chief operating officer V. Pappas is stepping down after five years with the short-video company owned by China’s ByteDance, according to an email seen by Reuters on Thursday.
In an email to employees, Pappas said he would play an advisory role to the company during the transition.
“Given all the success I’ve had on TikTok, I ultimately feel it’s the right time to move on and re-focus on my entrepreneurial passion,” said Pappas, who uses the pronoun they.
ByteDance Chief Executive Shaw Chew also announced in a staff memo shared with Reuters on Thursday that Xenia Mucha, formerly a 20-year veteran at The Walt Disney Company, has joined TikTok as chief brand and communications officer. Will be
Tiktok chief of staff Adam Presser will become head of operations and oversee content, user operations and distribution, Chew said.
TikTok has faced worldwide scrutiny over security concerns due to its Chinese ownership.
US lawmakers introduced new legislation last week to protect Americans’ user data from being used by US adversaries.
Last month, TikTok sued Montana as it became the first state to ban the app statewide.
(Reporting by Samruddhi Arunasalam in Bengaluru, Don Chmielewski in Los Angeles and Sheila Dang in Dallas; Editing by Devika Shyamnath and Daniel Wallis)
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