Meritage Homes Corp., has hired Malissia Clinton as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. Clinton is joining the nation’s seventh-largest publicly traded homebuilder after serving as GC of The Aerospace Corp. Clinton—who replaces C. Timothy White, who retired in December 2021—brings nearly three decades of legal experience. Her extensive expertise includes managing risk, ethics, compliance, and governance […]
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. (HST), a Bethesda, Maryland upscale hotel investor, has hired Julie Aslaksen as its executive VP, general counsel and secretary. She succeeds Elizabeth Abdoo who left the company. HST says that Aslaksen has more than 19 years of legal and business experience. In her new job, she’s legal the company’s legal […]
A change of the legal crew at SNC-Lavalin as top
The huge Montreal-based engineering and construction company SNC-Lavalin will soon have a new general counsel: Charlene Ripley. She starts her new job October 15 and will report to Interim President and CEO Ian Edwards. Until earlier this year, Ripley was general counsel at Goldcorp Inc. While there, she was responsible for developing and implementing a […]
STORE Capital Corporation, a real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has hired Chad Freed to be executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. Freed comes to STORE Capital from Universal Technical Institute, where he was general counsel and vice president of corporate development. He previously worked at the law firm Bryan Cave, where […]
Daytona, Florida-based building materials company TopBuild Corp., has hired Donald Walther as general counsel and corporate secretary. Before his current job, Walther was general counsel of Esterline Corp, an aerospace and defense supplier. Before than, he served as GC at The Heico Companies LLC, a parent holding company for a number of manufacturing, construction, and […]
The Irish-American manufacturing company Ingersoll Rand has promoted Evan Turtz to senior vice president and general counsel, effective immediately. He will serve as an officer of the company and be responsible for strategic leadership and oversight of Ingersoll Rand’s legal and compliance affairs worldwide. Turtz succeeds Maria Green, who will retire in June. Green served […]
PPG received a score of 90 percent on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) workplace equality. The CEI index evaluates LGBTQ-related policies and practices, including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, […]
eXp World Holdings Inc., the holding company for real estate cloud startups eXp Realty and eXp World Technologies, has hired James Bramble as its general counsel. He will oversee the company’s legal affairs, including corporate governance, litigation and compliance matters, and be a key leader on the international expansion team. Bramble comes to eXp with […]
A big change for GC James Thompson—from cosmetics to construction
GCP Applied Technologies Inc., which sells construction products technologies, has hired James Thompson has been appointed to the position of vice president, general counsel and secretary. He starts April 8. Thompson, with more than 30 years of experience, will lead the company’s global legal team and oversee all aspects of legal strategy, corporate governance, compliance, […]
Antonino “Nino” Cusimano is a prime example of the modern global general counsel, 2019 model. His education spans two continents and countries, with a law degree in Italy followed by a Fulbright exchange program in the United States. Cusimano did his time in private practice in London, was headhunted to work for an American company […]