Twitter Investing in Media Partnerships Across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Headed by Rishi Jaitly

Twitter announces today that it is investing in its Media Partnerships function across the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions to accelerate its push for content partnerships across the news, politics, sports, TV and entertainment verticals. The company has promoted Rishi Jaitly (@rsjaitly) to Vice President of Media for Asia Pacific and Middle East to lead the business strategy and build up the media partnerships function in these regions. His team will work with key publishers to prioritize Twitter as their first and immediate platform to reach, delight and engage with a mobile audience across Twitter's live, public platform, including the Twitter, Vine and Periscope apps.Based in Singapore, Rishi will grow his teams in major digital markets including Australia, India, and Japan, while expanding his team into new markets in Greater China and Southeast Asia. For example, his new team in Singapore recently completed the TV partnership deal with MediaCorp to use Twitter's SnappyTV platform to exclusively provide high-quality video clips of the country's 50th National Day Parade via Tweets during the live event.Katie Stanton, Vice President of Global Media, said,