In a letter to his employees, Mayer said that a series of structural changes to TikTok’s prompted him to leave.
Kevin Mayer, the chief executive officer of the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, said on Wednesday that he was resigning from the company, two months after his appointment, CNBC reported. Mayers had joined TikTok on June 1, after resigning from the Walt Disney Company. Vanessa Pappas, general manager of TikTok in North America, will take over as the interim global head of the company, according to The New York Times. His resignation came after United States President Donald Trump claimed the video app could be used to spy on Americans and ordered a crackdown on the Chinese-owned company. Trump has given TikTok time till mid-September to sell all its assets in the United States.
