Twitter Adds BET Network’s Debra Lee to Board in Video Push
- Latest member follows two director additions earlier this year
- Company had been criticized for lack of diversity in top ranks
Debra L. Lee.
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Twitter Inc. named Debra L. Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of BET Networks, to its board, the third new director appointed in the past two months while the social media company tries to expand its user base.
Lee, 61, has been CEO for more than a decade at Viacom Inc.’s BET Networks, an entertainment company that focuses on programming aimed at a black audience. She is the first African-American on Twitter’s board.