Mark D. Nielsen is an American business executive, former elected official, and attorney.
Nielsen's current position is chief legal and regulatory officer of
Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (NASDAQ: FYBR), at the company's offices in
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The city, part of the New York metropolitan area, New York Metropolitan Area, is the List of municipalities of Connecticut by population, sixth-most populous city in Connecticut ...
. Frontier is America's fourth largest landline telecom company providing data and voice services in 25 states.
Nielsen started his legal career in 1990 as an associate lawyer at the Hartford law firm o
Murtha, Cullina, Richter & Pinney concentrating on federal and state litigation.
Nielsen's public roles have included state representative in Connecticut (1992-1994), state senator in Connecticut (1994-1998), and staff member to
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and retired politician. He served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025 and as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 ...
when Romney was Governor of
Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
. Nielsen served as Romney's chief legal counsel from 2004 to 2006, and his chief of staff from 2006 to 2007, succeeding
Beth Myers
Beth Myers (born 1957) is an American political consultant, campaign advisor, and attorney who has held senior positions in the political campaigns and the Massachusetts governorship of Mitt Romney, the nominee of the Republican Party for Presiden ...
in that position.
In his memoir, ''In My Time'', Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledges that he was initially angered by Nielsen’s favorable comments about Cheney's opponent in the 2000 election, Senator
Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Dem ...
, but that, upon reflection, he couldn’t disagree with what Nielsen had said about Lieberman.
Nielsen is an honors graduate of
Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate education, undergraduate college of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Scienc ...
and
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...
, and currently serves as a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Columbia Law School.
References
External links
*http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/CT/H/05/mark.nielsen.html
*http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=95565
The Washington Post*http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/19910/striving-first-class-corporate-compliance-changing-world
*http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/24426/insider-advice-building-effective-board-processes
*http://modern-counsel.com/frontier/
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Living people
1961 births
Harvard College alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
Connecticut state senators
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Connecticut lawyers
Chiefs of staff to the governor of Massachusetts
20th-century members of the Connecticut General Assembly