Sean Edgett
Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
Match Group
Sean Edgett currently serves as Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Match Group, where he leads the legal team and functions across the portfolio. Sean joined Match Group from UPSIDE Foods, Inc., a private food technology company, where he had been Chief Legal Officer & Secretary since April 2023. Previously, Sean was Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Twitter, Inc. Sean joined Twitter in August 2012 and was its General Counsel from February 2018 until October 2022, previously holding various executive legal roles overseeing Twitter’s IPO, M&A, governance, employment, and intellectual property, and overseeing public policy, trust and safety, and compliance in an acting executive capacity. Sean was Director of Legal at NetApp from October 2010 until August 2012, where he handled legal matters for M&A, strategic investments, corporate finance, and public offerings.
Sean was a corporate lawyer at Latham & Watkins from 2005 to 2010, and a litigator at Akin Gump from 2003 until 2005. Sean has a B.A. in Cognitive Science and a B.A. in Psychology from University of California San Diego, and a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law.