Twitter Inc. has named the former CEO of Pearson Plc, Marjorie Scardino to its board after facing criticism for its lack of women on its management team. Scardino was head of Pearson, the education and publishing company, from 1997 to 2012. Silicon. Sallie Krawcheck, a former Bank of America Corp. executive, said Twitter's absence of women on its board was "a joke". Hopefully now everyone can be happy that women are finding jobs in these leadership roles in Silicon Valley.