Indian-American Sree Sreenivasan leaves his post as chief digital officer in New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration. The Indian American’s May 12 departure marks the eighth high-profile exit from City Hall within the past year.

The former Metropolitan Museum of Art chief digital officer joined de Blasio’s team in October last year. He did not give a reason for his sudden resignation, the Post reported.

Mayoral spokesman Ben Sarle declined to discuss the circumstances surrounding Sreenivasan’s departure in the Post report, but said the move was in line with a reworking of the City Hall tech team.

“We wish Sree all the best. Moving forward, it was a natural fit to centralize digital strategy under the chief technology officer, Miguel Gamino,” Sarle said in a statement.

Sreenivasan was appointed to the post in New York City in August 2016, with de Blasio praising the Indian American co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association’s experience that would help “move our city’s digital ecosystem into the 21st century”.

At the time, Sreenivasan said about being named to the post, “It’s a real honor for me to serve as the CDO of the world's greatest city.”

Before joining the Met in 2013, Sreenivasan spent 20 years as a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and a year as Columbia University's first chief digital officer.

He was a founding member and contributing editor at the neighborhood news site DNAinfo, and during his career, he has worked for various publications, including the New York Times, and was a well known technology reporter on WABC-TV, WNBC-TV and WCBS-TV.

Sreenivasan was born in Japan and he lived in Bhutan, the former Soviet Union, New York City, Myanmar, India and Fiji.

He has received a bachelor’s degree in history from the St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and has received a master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University in the year 1993.

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