Recall that Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, disclosed on Thursday that the company has a new CEO. His announcement of Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO came on Friday.
The 59-year-old American media strategist is profiled in the following interesting information.
- Linda Yaccarino was born in New York, New York, to Italian immigrant parents in 1963.
- Isabella Bartolone Yaccarino and Bob Yaccarino are her parents.
- She graduated from Deer Park High School and studied at Penn State.
- Yaccarino is wed to Claude Peter Madrazo, an Italian-American who is also his husband. The couple has two children together.
- From 2011 to 2012, Linda Yaccarino played a contestant on Big Brother’s Italian version.
- Between 1992 to 2011, she served as Turner Broadcasting’s executive vice president and chief operating officer for advertising sales, marketing, and acquisitions.
- From 2011 to 2023, she was the Chairman, Global Advertising & Partnerships at NBC Universal Media, LLC. During her time in college, she also completed her internship at NBC.
- A few hours before she was introduced as the new CEO of Twitter, she gave notice of her departure from NBC Universal Media, LLC.
- She is the first female CEO of Twitter.
- Linda Yaccarino allegedly has a net worth of $30 million.
