By Kevin McCauley
Colin Crowell, who had been running his own telecom consulting shop in D.C., will head Twitter’s global public policy shop starting in mid-September.
The well-respected Crowell has counseled BT Americas, Sprint, Cablevision, Consumer Electronics Assn. and T-Mobile.
Prior to establishing Crowell Strategies last year, Crowell was senior counselor to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, handling legislation, communications and intergovernmental affairs.
Earlier, he served for more than 20 years on the staff of Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey when he either chaired or sat as ranking member of the House telecommunications subcommittee.
Twitter today announced Crowell’s hiring via a tweet form general counsel Alexander MacGillivray who is “very happy to welcome to welcome longtime user advocate” Crowell to the microblogging firm.
Crowell tweeted that having “pushed open exchange of info information in tech policy for 20+ yrs. No better place to apply that belief than Twitter.”
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