Chief Operating Officer, TikTok

Pappas, who is based in TikTok’s Culver City office, became chief operating officer of the rapidly growing social media company in mid-2021, following the appointment of Shou Zi Chew as the company’s chief executive officer. Pappas oversees all content, marketing, business intelligence, distribution partnerships and user operations for the platform. Before joining TikTok, Pappas was an executive at YouTube from 2011 to 2018. Under the leadership of Pappas, TikTok has become one of the most widely used apps in the world, with more than 1 billion monthly users.

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