Primus Telecommunications Group, a provider of advanced communication solutions, has named Christie Hill as general counsel and secretary. Hill joins PTGi from Arbinet Corporation, which PTGi acquired on Feb. 28, and brings nearly 25 years of legal and corporate experience to Primus. 

Prior to the merger with Arbinet, Hill served as the general counsel and secretary of Arbinet since Feb. 1, 2010, following her role as the oversight liaison and reporting executive for the Troubled Asset Relief Program at the U.S. Department of Treasury. From 1998 until 2008, Hill worked at Nextel Communications and then at Sprint Nextel Corporation, where she held various leadership positions in the company's legal and governance organizations, including her most recent position as vice president, corporate secretary and chief ethics officer.

Prior to Nextel, she served as counsel at Honda of America Mfg., where her responsibilities included a variety of corporate and transactional matters.