WhatsApp head Will Cathcart announced Monday that he is stepping down from his role with the company and Kunal Shah, founder of CRED, will take his place. File Photo by Hayoung Jeon/EPA-EFE
June 22 (UPI) -- WhatsApp head Will Cathcart announced Monday that he is stepping down from his role with the company and Kunal Shah, founder of CRED, will take his place.
Cathcart served as the head of Meta's messaging app for almost seven years. He will continue to play a role in Meta's leadership.
"I'm so proud of what we have built," Cathcart posted on social media. "We scaled end-to-end encrypted messaging to more than three billion people. We brought it to group chats, companion devices, new surfaces -- and defended people's right to a private conversation across the globe."
Shah, the new WhatsApp lead, founded the financial technology company CRED, based in India, in 2018. He was also an investor and adviser to start-ups in India and southeast Asia.
