Damien Kieran, who left Twitter Inc.’s chief privacy officer after Elon Musk bought the social media giant in November, has joined photo-sharing app maker Beryl as a senior attorney.
On Monday, Kieran started as general counsel at Paris-based Beryl, according to posts on LinkedIn and Twitter. “The product, the people and the potential drew me in,” he wrote on LinkedIn.
Kiran and Beryl did not respond to requests for comment on the scandalous social media app, which directs users to share a daily photo.
Moreover, according to his LinkedIn account, Kieran, whose role as chief privacy officer, was Twitter’s vice president and deputy general counsel before resigning in November.
Musk left the company along with other Twitter executives two weeks after taking over the $44 billion job as CEO.
In October, Musk fired Twitter’s head of legal affairs and policy, Vijaya Gade. Other top lawyers have also been fired or dismissed, including Deputy General Counsel James Baker.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its current legal staff on Tuesday, and it was unclear how many lawyers remain. Several in-house attorneys have taken on new roles since November, according to LinkedIn updates.
According to his LinkedIn account, Kieran joined Twitter in 2011.
Following Twitter Inc’s acquisition by billionaire and investor CEO Elon Musk, its workforce around the world has started receiving messages from their work accounts that they have been locked out – signaling a much-anticipated mass strike that has been in the headlines in recent weeks. Since Musk took over, the social media platform has seen major changes — one of which is the removal of the company’s high-profile interactions with other employees.
In an October 2022 email reviewed by Bloomberg, Twitter management said: “We will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday in an effort to put Twitter on a healthy path.” We understand that this will affect many individuals who have made important contributions to Twitter, but this step is necessary to ensure the success of the company in the future.
Following the news of Twitter’s massive outage in November, Elon Musk ordered officials to find up to $1 billion in annual infrastructure cost savings.
