natalie kerrisNatalie Kerris, senior director of worldwide communications for Apple until last April, is in talks to join Twitter, according to a tech media report.

Twitter is under scrutiny amid the departure of top executives and investor pressure. Google vet Gabriel Stricker, who led communications and marketing at Twitter, left last summer.

Re/code reported that the company is close to hiring Kerris to run its communications.

Kerris, a Silicon Valley PR alum, spent 14 yeasr at Apple after stints at Intershop, Netscape and Apple's Claris Corp. subsidiary in the mid-1990s. She started out in the agency realm with Franson, Hagerty & Assocs. and Ketchum.