Twitter board seeks new candidates

Bit net (chinabyte) October 20 According to foreign news reports, people familiar with the situation said Twitter is looking for a board member to expand its board of directors, including a former Google executive. The source said Twitter's work is only just beginning, but some candidates have surfaced, including Marian Nafissi, Minted.com chief executive of the paper Products company, Mariam Naficy. and the fashion retail website Joyus CEO Singh Cassidy (Singh Cassidy). Cassidy previously served as president of Google's Asia Pacific and Latin America region. In his resume on the Joyus website, Cassidy said she is a Twitter consultant.　　A spokesman for the company said that Cassidy was currently travelling and could not immediately respond to her role in Twitter. The source said Twitter wanted to create a new vision, "to build a board for the company's long-term success." "The company's policy is not to comment on the composition of the board," a Twitter spokeswoman said.　　The capital invested in Twitter in 2007, while Spark Capital invested in Twitter in 2008. Fred Wilson, Partner of Squar, and Sabet of Spark Capital (Bijan Sabet) left the Twitter board last month, both of which were early investors of Twitter, Flede Wilson. After that, Twitter began looking for its own board of directors. In general, the board of directors of listed companies will be equipped with more business experts, and almost no early investors figure. Twitter is currently considering an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of 2012 or 2013.　　Although Silicon Valley brings together global talent, it is still white and male-dominated on the board of entrepreneurial companies. At present, Twitter board members include company chief executive Dick Costello Dick Costolo, former Netscape chief financial officer, investor Peter Coury (Peter Currie), Twitter co-founder, the founder of electronic payment service Square Jack Mr Dorsey (Jack Dorsey), Benchmark Capital (also a Twitter investor) partner Peter Van Ton (Peter Fenton), Flipboard CEO of Online social magazine Maik Mckui (Mike mccue), David Rosenblatt, chairman of the Advertising group commerce, and David Rosenbratt, Twitter co-founder Evan (Evan Williams). Share to: