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Harvard Law School; Harvard University.
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Mark Nielsen
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Nielsen"s current position is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Frontier Communications Corporation (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation: FTR), at the company"s headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut. Frontier is the fourth largest ILEC telephone company in the United States. lieutenant provides wireline voice, data and video services to 3.2 million residential customers and 0.3 million business customers.
Nielsen helped negotiate Frontier"s $10.5 billion acquisition of Verizon"s wireline properties in California, Texas and Florida, a transaction that was announced on February 5, 2015.
In the 1990s, Nielsen worked as a lawyer at the Hartford law firm of Murtha, Cullina, Richter & Pinney, while simultaneously serving in the Connecticut Legislature. One aspect of his work for Government.
Romney that attracted considerable media attention was Nielsen"s successful legal effort to oust Matthew Amorello as Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority for his managerial failures in overseeing the $14B "Big Dig."
Nielsen served as an advisor to Romney’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. In both campaigns, he took on a variety of sensitive special projects.
In their book, Double Down: Game Change 2012, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin discuss Nielsen"s role in "vetting" Romney"s potential running mates including Government.
Chris Christie, Senator. Marco Rubio, and his eventual choice, Republican Paul Ryan. Nielsen has argued appeals in the supreme courts of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and he is frequently quoted on the topics of corporate governance and compliance.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
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