Nick Pickles, former vice president of global affairs at X
Departure: September 2024
Pickles, a top spokesperson for X, left the company last September after a decade working in public policy roles at Twitter and X. “The constant across my time at Twitter and X has been the amazing people I’ve worked with inside and outside the company,” he wrote on X the day he stepped down. He’s now the chief policy officer of Tools for Humanity, according to his LinkedIn.
Renato Leite Monteiro, former global data protection officer at X
Departure: September 2024
Monteiro was among the holdovers from X’s Twitter years who stayed at the social media site after Musk took over. The former professor of law and data privacy was hired by Twitter in 2020, and initially worked for the company in Brazil before relocating to Ireland. He quit last September to take some “personal time off,” he wrote on LinkedIn. Five months ago, he became the vice president for legal assurance at e&, a technology and investment group in Abu Dhabi.
Joe Benarroch, former head of operations at X
Departure: June 2024
Considered Yaccarino’s top lieutenant, Benarroch resigned from the social media site in early June of 2024, after spending one year and one month at the company. The executive’s LinkedIn profile states that Yaccarino recruited Benarroch from NBCUniversal. At X, he was put in charge of restructuring the organization following mass layoffs. Benarroch also handled corporate communications for X. Benarroch is now the head of content, media partnerships, and distribution at the NYSE.
