Twitter has turned to Wall Street for talent.
The company has hired Cynthia Gaylor, a managing director at Morgan Stanley, to be its head of corporate development, Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s chief lawyer, said in a tweet on Thursday.
Ms. Gaylor, a technology-focused investment banker with 17 years of experience, posted her first tweet on Thursday.
Over her career, Ms. Gaylor has worked on technology deals including the sale of Zappos to Amazon.com, according to her profile on LinkedIn. More recently, she has advised on financing transactions like initial public offerings.
Among her clients are Facebook, Zynga, Netflix and LinkedIn, the LinkedIn profile says. She joined Morgan Stanley in 2006 after working at Hambrecht & Quist, which became part of JPMorgan Chase.
Ms. Gaylor’s move to Twitter will most likely fuel speculation about an eventual I.P.O. for the company. In January, Twitter was reported to have a valuation of at least $9 billion.
Investment bankers typically aren’t permitted to be on Twitter for work purposes. One exception is Ted Tobiason, a managing director at Deutsche Bank, who tweets about I.P.O.’s.
