Agora, Inc. announced the promotion of key executives and a new hire designed to drive innovation and reinforce security as Agora continues its growth globally. Effective immediately, Stanley Wei will expand his responsibilities as Chief Strategy Officer to lead strategy as well as commercial operations globally. Agora Co-founder Tony Wang is named the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), while Agora veteran Virginia Liu becomes Agora's first-ever Chief Experience Officer (CXO), both effective immediately.

Agora is also announcing the hiring of Roger Hale, the former Chief Security Officer at BigID, a data-centric personal data privacy and protection company. He joins Agora as Chief Security Officer. Wei is responsible for overall strategic planning, investments and global expansion.

He is also tasked with overseeing the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the business. He reports to Zhao. As CRO, Wang, an Agora co-founder and leader of the Agora's Emerging Technology & Markets division, will now lead sales strategy, management and team development.

He will also own the go-to-market (GTM) strategy, identify and close key accounts, while ensuring customer retention. He reports to CSO Wei. In the CXO role, Liu, who transitions from her position as Agora's Senior Vice President of Marketing & Ecosystems, will drive Agora's product-led growth (PLG) strategy, aligning Agora's product strategy to make it extremely easy and delightful for developers to build high-quality real-time applications.

She will report to CEO Zhao. In his role as Chief Security Officer, Hale will work with executive management to navigate compliance and security, and determine risk management and security best practices for the organization. He will also serve as the process owner of all assurance activities related to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of customer, business partner, employee and business information in compliance with Agora's information security and business compliance policies.