Adult platform OnlyFans’ CEO Amrapali Gan resigns; Keily Bair to take over reins

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Amrapali Gan, the CEO of UK-based online subscription platform OnlyFans, announced her resignation as the company’s chief executive on Tuesday.In a LinkedIn post, Gan, who led the platform — known for its adult content — for three years, said she was leaving to start her own venture, Hoxton Projects. OnlyFans’ chief strategy and operations officer Keily Blair will head the company. “Spending nearly 3 years at OnlyFans while it echoed throughout the cultural zeitgeist, has been beyond rewarding.

Within this time I’ve accomplished incredible goals for the business including enhancing its priority focus on platform safety, scaling the organisation globally, and growing OF's diverse community of creators and fans,” Gan wrote in her LinkedIn post. Gan, an alum of the Harvard Business School, said the company paid out $10 billion to creators during her tenure as the CEO. The Mumbai-born tech executive had taken over the CEO reins from Tim Stokley in December 2021.

Prior to joining OnlyFans, Gan worked with rapid growth companies and fast-moving consumer industries. She was with unicorn Quest Nutrition as the head of Brand Communications, where she helped the company through a rapid growth period, and at Red Bull Media House focusing on activation and communications. The company’s new chief executive Keily Blair has worked as a lawyer and business professional with firms such as PwC and law firm Morrison & Foerster, before joining the online platform in January 2022.

Founded in 2016, OnlyFans made a name for itself as a platform hosting adult content. It came into the limelight during the pandemic, when many adult content creators shifted to the platform due to lockdowns. The platform allowed people with huge social media