Linda Yaccarino

Yaccarino will be joining Twitter, where she will be the social platform’s new CEO. Twitter owner Elon Musk announced Yaccarino’s hire Friday. Yaccarino “will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology,” Musk tweeted. The Penn State alumna is currently the chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, where she worked for over a decade. While keeping her duties at NBCU, in February 2023, Yaccarino was also appointed chair of the board of YMU - a transatlantic talent management company whose clients include Paris Hilton and Emily Ratajkowski. Yaccarino and her husband share two children together - Christian and Matthew. Yaccarino’s son, Matthew, is the director of sales at Studio71, while her daughter, Christian, is a pediatric nurse at New York Presbyterian Hospital.