Twitter is appointing Vijaya Gadde as its new General Counsel after current appointee Alex Macgillivray has announced his plans to move on. The news came as a post on Macgillivray’s personal site and was shortly thereafter reported on by Mike Isaac at All Things D.
Techcrunch has confirmed both the departure of Macgillivray and the hire of Gadde with Twitter.
Macgillivray says that he is planning on dialing back his involvement
with Twitter as the team transitions to new leadership. “I’ll continue
to support the company and its great people by staying on as an advisor
for the legal, trust & safety, corporate development and public
policy teams,” says Macgillivray. “I continue to care deeply about
Twitter, the folks who work at Twitter and our tremendous users, so I’ll
remain close to all three.”
Macgillivray was hired by Twitter in 2009 and previously served as
DGC of Product at IP at Google. Gadde has been a director in Twitter’s
legal department since July of 2011 and will now take on the GC role.
Macgillivray’s former post at Google had him going to bat for the
company over its efforts to scan books. His move there was seen as a key
‘first amendment’ hire as Twitter began to be considered a platform for
expression and came under attack from government agencies of various
countries looking to quash or investigate statements made by users.
Gadde was formerly an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where Macgillivray was also formerly an attorney.
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