Dive summary:

• Mike Gupta was named Twitter’s CFO, and former CFO Ali Rowghani was promoted to COO.
• Both Gupta and Rowghani have experience working at publicly traded companies, and that should help Twitter progress toward a publicly-traded IPO.
• The news was announced via a tweet from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo.

From the article:

… Rowghani was formerly the CFO and senior VP of strategic planning at Pixar Animation Studios. Since joining Twitter in 2010, he has been instrumental in monetization efforts such as the microblogging platform’s Promoted suite of ad products.

Gupta was Zynga’s treasurer before leaving in November as part of an exodus of high-level executives at the beleaguered gaming company. He joined Twitter immediately as its vice president of corporate finance and treasurer. Before arriving at Zynga in May 2011, Gupta was a strategy and corporate finance exec at Yahoo, where he worked for eight years. …