Meet Kudzi Chikumbu, TikTok’s Global Head of Creator Marketing

As recently as August this year, Kudzi Chikumbu was promoted to its Head of Creator Marketing.

Born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa, Chkumbu has been making moves. He has been at the ByteDance owned company for 6 years.

Before that, he was TikTok’s director of creator community in the U.S..

His profile reads that he is a media technology executive, Gen-Z expert and advocate for diversity, inclusion & representation for creators online.

Chikumbu began his business career as an account and management consultant in South Africa after which he enrolled at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he completed his MBA in 2016 before starting his career in the entertainment industry.

And the man has credentials for days.

Fortune.com featured Chikumbu as part of 40 under 40 list, he was on Inbound as a speaker, he Hollywood Reporter – Next Gen 2019: Hollywood’s 35 Rising Executives 35 and more.

Naturally, he is huge on TikTok, with over 257k followers.