$20 billion Occidental Petroleum Corporation has elected Roy Pineci as vice president, controller, and chief accounting officer, effective Nov. 14. Pineci joined Occidental as vice president of internal audit and was named senior vice president of finance for Oil and Gas in October 2007. In his new roles, Pineci will replace Jim Leonard, who will […]
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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Sprint Appoints New General Counsel and Secretary
Sprint Nextel has named Charles Wunsch as general counsel and corporate secretary, succeeding Leonard Kennedy. Wunsch has served in various legal positions at the telecommunications company since 1990, most recently as vice president for corporate transactions and business law.
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Avoiding Segregation-of-Duties Woe in IT
With the United States in the grips of an economic crisis, now is as good a time as any for Corporate America to reassess its internal controls. And segregation of duties is always crucial to reducing the occurrence of fraud or error within an organization. “Generally, fraud tends to increase as the economic environment gets […]
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MED3000 Appoints Chief Compliance Officer
MED3OOO Group, a healthcare management and technology products and service for providers and employers, has appointed Angela Hoffman as chief compliance and ethics officer. In this role, Hoffman will be responsible for the oversight of MED3OOO’s corporate compliance and ethics program, as well as compliance oversight for MED3OOO’s existing operating units in the United States […]
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WilmerHale Taps New Partner
Robert Badal has joined WilmerHale as partner in the firm’s antitrust and competition and intellectual property litigation practice groups. Badal, who will be based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, brings with him over 35 years of antitrust, intellectual property, and complex litigation experience. He most recently was a partner at Heller Ehrman, where he […]
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Eaton Makes Management Changes
$13 billion Eaton Corp. has hired Thomas Moran as senior vice president and secretary. He assumes the roles from Earl Franklin, who retired on Sept. 30 after almost 36 years with the diversified industrial manufacturer company. In his new role, Moran will oversee Eaton’s governance initiatives and will manage the corporate and securities function of […]
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Verizon Names New General Counsel
Verizon Communications has named Randal Milch as executive vice president and general counsel, effective Oct. 15. Milch, who is currently general counsel at Verizon Business, began his career with Verizon when he joined Bell Atlantic in 1993. Prior to his current assignment, he was senior vice president and deputy general counsel for Verizon, responsible for […]
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PwC Promotes Two Key Leaders
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has appointed Juan Pujadas as global leader of the advisory practice. Pujadas will also remain in his role as U.S. leader of the advisory practice. Pujadas has spent much of his career in financial services and is experienced in many markets around the world. He has led the firm’s U.S. advisory practice since […]
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Assurant Hires New Corporate Counsel
$8.4 billion Assurant, a provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, has appointed Stephen Gauster senior vice president and chief corporate counsel effective immediately. Before joining Assurant, Gauster was vice president, corporate counsel, and assistant secretary of Prudential Financial, and general counsel and secretary of Prudential Funding, LLC. He will report to Bart […]
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Unum Appoints General Counsel
The Unum Group has appointed Liston Bishop III as executive vice president and general counsel. Bishop has served as Unum’s interim general counsel since February 2008. He joins the company from the law firm Miller & Martin PLLC, where he had practiced corporate and securities law since 1979. As general counsel, Bishop will have responsibility […]