8 Game Changers Who Brought Riches to Companies


Bangalore: Any company to make its place among the top companies needs to have unparalleled people who build strong pillars on which a company's success gets positioned. They may hold any grade from a product visionary to a whistleblower CEO, from campaigning wizards to outstanding coaches. But their ingenious thinking can make bullions (gold) to a company. Many companies fate have taken a twirl around renovation where these key people fixed long pressing apprehensions of the company. Such people are known as 'the Notorious Game Changers'. Here is the list of those aggressive individuals who made radical decisions which conceded companies to go sky rocket.

Dick Costolo, CEO Twitter: In October 2010, Dick was promoted from COO to CEO. Dick took over from the then CEO Evan Williams. The position was supposed to be temporary but when Evan went on for paternity leave, the position became a permanent one.

Dick Costolo

Beginning his reign, Costolo charted out new business moves which impressed the company and boosted its confidence. Under his guidance, twitter relaunched their iphone app with a brand new look. He also introduced the self service ad product for small and medium size businesses in December of last year. The product helps businesses to run their campaigns and promote their products to twitter users. In May of 2011, it was announced that President Obama appointed Dick Costolo to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee along with Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group Scott Charney and McAfee President of Security David DeWalt.