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BNY Mellon, an investment management and investment services company, has appointed James Wiener as chief risk officer, effective Nov. 24, 2014.  Wiener will lead the company’s global risk and compliance group, overseeing the compliance and credit, operational and market risk functions. He will succeed Brian Rogan, who is retiring at the end of the year. Details inside.

General Motors announced that Michael Millikin, who has served as general counsel since 2009, intends to retire in early 2015. His departure comes three months after GM came under several investigations following a massive recall over defective ignition switches that can suddenly cause the steering, brakes, and airbag systems to lose power, and has been […]

Fannie Mae has appointed Brian Brooks as general counsel and corporate secretary, effective Nov. 10. Brooks joins Fannie Mae from OneWest Bank, where he was vice chairman and chief legal officer. Brooks has more than 20 years of legal and business experience. At OneWest Bank he advised executive management and the board of directors on […]

Transparency International, a global anti-corruption organization, has elected José Ugaz as chairman of the board, and Elena Panfilova as vice-chair. For the past nine years, these roles previously were held by Huguette Labelle and Akere Muna, respectively. Ugaz was ad-hoc state attorney of Peru for several corruption cases against the criminal network of former Peruvian […]

The Department of Justice has named Vanita Gupta as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, effective Oct. 20. She succeeds Molly Moran, who will become Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General. Prior to joining the Justice Department, Gupta served as deputy legal director of the American Civil […]

eBay announced today that Marc Andreessen has decided to resign from the company’s board of directors, in the wake of the board’s decision to spinoff the company’s PayPal unit. Andreessen, founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has served on eBay’s board for six years. “Following the board’s recent decision to separate eBay and PayPal […]

Diamond Foods has appointed Isobel Jones to the position of general counsel, effective as of Oct. 14, 2014. Prior to joining Diamond, Jones most recently served as general counsel and corporate secretary of Annie’s, where she was recruited as the first general counsel of the newly-public company. In that role, she was responsible for all […]