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Vaishali Bhatia to resign next month for a new role Vaishali Bhatia, executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of HF Sinclair Corporation, is stepping down next month. According to an SEC filing, Bhatia told the company’s board she will resign, effective March 15, 2024, to pursue another opportunity. The filing states that Bhatia’s resignation is not the result of any disagreement with the company or the board. HF Sinclair Corporation was created in March 2022 as the new parent company of HollyFrontier Corporation and Holly Energy Partners. HF Sinclair completed the acquisition of Holly Energy Partners last December.…

Tom Mattei joined the luxury retail company in 2020 The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) has raised concerns over plans to implement corporate governance guidelines for a range of banks that it says may impact boards outside the industry. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has proposed guidelines that would ‘establish standards’ for corporate governance and risk management that would apply to non-member banks – those that are not members of the US Federal Reserve System, usually state-chartered banks – and others such as state-licensed insured branches of foreign banks with consolidated assets of $10 bn or more. The…

Grant McGee previously spent more than six years with the company Grant McGee has returned to Kimberly-Clark Corporation as senior vice president and general counsel. McGee rejoined Kimberly-Clark this month from American Airlines, where he had been vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary since May 2022. He had previously spent more than six years at Kimberly-Clark in roles of increasing seniority, most recently vice president and senior deputy general counsel. According to his LinkedIn profile, he previously spent more than four years at General Electric (GE), most recently as executive counsel for M&A. Before that he was an…

Michelle Browdy has been in the role for almost a decade Michelle Browdy will retire from her role as senior vice president for legal and regulatory affairs and general counsel at IBM. According to an SEC filing, Browdy has told the company she intends to step down by the end of the year. The filing had no further details and an IBM spokesperson had no further comment other than that a successor has not been named. Browdy has been in her current role since 2015. She is responsible for IBM’s global corporate governance, legal, security and compliance activities and policies,…

Murray Garnick to retire April 1 Murray Garnick, executive vice president and general counsel of Altria Group, has told the company he plans to retire, effective April 1, 2024. Robert McCarter will succeed Garnick at that time. Tobacco company Altria’s wholly owned subsidiaries include manufacturers of both combustible and smoke-free products such as Philip Morris USA and brands such as Marlboro. Garnick leads the company’s law department and the corporate secretary’s office, regulatory affairs and regulatory sciences functions. He has been in this role since 2017. Garnick has worked with Altria and its associated companies, both internally and externally, across…