Chill Brands Group, the international consumer packaged goods company, appointed Scott E. Thompson to its Board of Directors, as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Thompson has almost forty years of intellectual property law experience. He was most recently General Counsel, Intellectual Property/Marketing Properties for Mars, where he oversaw the global intellectual property/marketing properties for all of […]
Life360, the family safety platform, announced the appointment of Kirsten Daru (pictured) as the company’s General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer. In her new role, Daru leads all legal and government affairs across the company’s umbrella of offerings, including the Life360, Tile and Jiobit products. Since 2019, Daru has served as General Counsel of Tile, which was […]
Flagship Pioneering, the bioplatform innovation company, announced today that Tom DiLenge has joined the company in a newly created role as Senior Partner, Global Public Policy, Regulatory & Governmental Strategy. In this role, DiLenge will lead and develop Flagship’s public policy, regulatory, and government affairs functions to advance Flagship’s priorities at the federal, state, and global levels. […]
Atomwise, a company using artificial intelligence (AI) for small molecule drug discovery, announced the appointment of Jeffrey Cerio, Pharm.D., J.D. as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Jeffrey Cerio, Pharm.D., J.D. joins Atomwise from Triplet Therapeutics where he was General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. He previously served as Senior Corporate Counsel, Securities at Moderna where he […]
Michael F. Acedo has been promoted to Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary of OpenText. The appointment has been announced together with others strategic changes to the company’s Executive Leadership Team. Acedo is responsible for leading the global legal organization, including the Office of the Chief Compliance Officer and the Corporate Secretarial department. Acedo joined OpenText in 2014 […]
David Squellati (pictured) joined Disqo as General Counsel, reporting to Armen Adjemian, Co-Founder and CEO. As the leader of Disqo’s legal organization, he will work with all other teams across the organization to help ensure that Disqo’s platform, which enables clients to connect what people think and do across all of their brand experiences online, is developed […]
Modern Meadow has hired Quintin Cassady as general counsel. Cassady joins the company after spending more than two decades at Galderma, the independent dermatology company. For the last five years, he’s been vice president, general counsel and compliance officer for its North American operations. Before joining Galderma, he was a partner at Shannon Gracey Ratliff & Miller in […]
The Coppell, Texas-based retailer The Container Store Group has hired a new general counsel, Tasha Stringer Grinnell, who comes from the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus. Grinnell has spent nearly two years at Dallas-based Neiman Marcus, she served as Neiman Marcus’ interim legal officer for five months before becoming vice president and assistant general counsel for […]
Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, appointed Kerry Acocella as General Counsel. Acocella succeeds Laszlo Kopits, who is retiring after four years as General Counsel. Kerry Acocella joined the company in January 2019 as Chief Corporate Counsel. Acocella has held senior legal and compliance positions in public companies across a wide range of industries. “I am very pleased […]
Elizabeth Bullock has been appointed as senior vice chancellor for legal affairs and general counsel of the University of Denver. She’ll start in March. At the University of Denver, she succeeds General Counsel Paul Chan, who led the university’s legal department for 24 years before becoming special adviser to the chancellor this month. Bullock has been University […]