Mozilla Nabs Twitter Deputy GC as Next Top Lawyer
The efforts to browse for a new in-house boss are over for Mountain View, California-based Mozilla.
August 14, 2018 at 01:20 PM
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Amy Keating, Mozilla general counsel. Courtesy photo
The search is over. Longtime tech in-house counsel Amy Keating will be the new GC of Mozilla, the company announced Tuesday.
Keating joins Mozilla, which is behind the popular Firefox browser, from Twitter, where she's served as vice president of legal and deputy general counsel since October 2017. She's been in-house at Twitter since November 2012, moving up the ranks from litigation counsel to her current role.
Prior to joining Twitter, Keating spent two years as associate litigation counsel at Google. She started her legal career as an associate at Bingham McCutchen. Although she's got plenty of Silicon Valley experience, the Mozilla move will make Keating a GC for the first time in her career.
“Mozilla's commitment to innovation and an internet that is open and accessible to all speaks to me at a personal level, and I've been drawn to serving this kind of mission throughout my career,” Keating said in a statement. “I'm grateful for the opportunity to learn from Mozilla's incredible employees and community and to help promote the principles that make Mozilla a trusted and unique voice in the world.”
In her new role, which she'll start on Sept. 10, Keating will be responsible for the full slate of Mozilla's legal work, including product counseling, commercial contracts and licensing and privacy. She'll report to Denelle Dixon, Mozilla's chief operating officer.
“From her time at Twitter and prior, Amy brings a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the product, litigation, regulatory, international, intellectual property and employment legal areas. We're excited to see her join Mozilla,” Dixon said in the announcement of her hire.
Keating isn't the only notable legal leader to be hired at Mozilla as of late. The company's nonprofit arm, the Mozilla Foundation, brought on a new head of legal, Abigail Phillips, earlier this year. According to Phillips' LinkedIn, she is a former Perkins Coie associate and former staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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