$4.6 billion global technology company NCR Corporation has named Jennifer Daniels as its general counsel and corporate secretary. She will report to NCR Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Nuti. Daniels comes to NCR from Barnes & Noble, where she most recently served as vice president, general counsel, and secretary. In her new role, she […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
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Top FCPA Legal Chief Joins Paul, Weiss
The law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison announced April 16 that prominent Department of Justice prosecutor Mark Mendelsohn will join its Litigation Department as a member of the firm’s White Collar Crime & Regulatory Defense and Securities Litigation practices. He will be a resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office effective June […]
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A. Schulman Makes Management Changes
A. Schulman, an international supplier of high-performance plastic compounds and resins, has promoted Malia Gelfo, former manager of financial reporting, to assistant corporate controller. In her new role, Gelfo will be responsible for the corporate accounting and financial reporting departments, as well as the integration of acquisitions into the financial consolidation and external reporting process. […]
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Frontier Communications Hires New Chief Legal Officer
$2.1 billion Frontier Communications has appointed Kathleen Quinn Abernathy as chief legal officer and executive vice president of regulatory and government affairs. As a result of her new role, Abernathy resigned from Frontier’s board of directors, a role she had been in since April 2006. Abernathy is widely recognized as a global expert in telecom […]
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Carnival Appoints New Board Member
$13.1 billion cruise entertainment company Carnival Corporation has elected Admiral Sir Jonathon Band to serve on the company’s boards of directors, following its annual shareholders meeting on April 13. Additionally, the company announced that Ambassador Richard Capen is retiring from the board after 16 years of service. Band recently retired from the British Navy after […]
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Conseco Nominates New Board Member
$4.3 billion insurance company Conseco has nominated David Zwiener as a director to stand for election at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders on May 11. He would fill the vacancy resulting from the decision of Director Doreen Wright not to seek re-election. The other nine current directors have been nominated for re-election at the […]
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Former FINRA Chief Joins Bingham
Less than a month after announcing her decision to step down as head of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Susan Merrill has joined Bingham McCutchen as a partner in the firm’s broker-dealer group in New York. Merrill will lead Bingham’s enforcement practice and will advise financial industry clients on regulatory and securities enforcement […]
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Shop Talk: Compliance in Life Sciences
Corporate compliance in the life sciences industry can be quite the headache these days. THE PANELISTS The following executives participated in the March 25 roundtable on compliance, risk, and liability in the Life Sciences industry: Yusuf Azizullah, Former IT Compliance Officer, AstraZeneca Frank Bigley, Chief Compliance Officer, Novo Nordisk Andrew Dahlinghaus, Senior Corporate Counsel & […]
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Columbus McKinnon Appoints Chief Accounting Officer
Columbus McKinnon Corporation, a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of material handling products, has appointed Joseph Maliekel as chief accounting officer. Maliekel joined Columbus McKinnon in October 2009 as corporate controller. Prior to joining Columbus McKinnon, Maliekel spent two years as part of BDO Seidman’s professional services team in Chicago, and prior to that, he was […]
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Paladyne Hires Hong Kong Director of Client Services
Paladyne Systems, a provider of technology and services to the global hedge fund industry, has appointed Askin Leung as director of client services for the Asia-Pacific region. Paladyne has also increased its office space in Hong Kong to support its rapidly growing staff and Asia-Pacific client base. Leung brings deep knowledge of the hedge fund […]
