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Lucy Clark Dougherty will join the power-management company later this month Eaton Corporation has hired Lucy Clark Dougherty as general counsel, effective January 27. Dougherty will then succeed Taras Szmagala Jr as executive vice president and chief legal officer (CLO) when he retires on April 4, 2025. Dougherty will report to Paulo Ruiz, president and COO of Eaton. She is joining Eaton having most recently been senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Polaris. In this role, she has led the company’s global legal, government relations, trade and product compliance organization. Before her time at Polaris, Dougherty held…

Patrick Donnelly has been with the radio company for almost 27 years Patrick Donnelly, SiriusXM Radio’s executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, intends to retire in early 2025, according to an SEC filing by the radio company. The filing states that to help with the transition, Donnelly will continue to be a full-time employee until April 4, 2025, after which he will become a part-time employee through December 31, 2025. After the company hires his successor he will become an adviser to the general counsel until the end of the year. According to his LinkedIn profile, Donnelly took…

Heidi Chen was previously general counsel at Zoetis GeneDx has hired Heidi Chen as chief legal officer and corporate secretary. She reports to Katherine Stueland, CEO and president. Chen has joined GeneDx from Zoetis, where she was general counsel and corporate secretary for almost 12 years, a role she took on following the company’s spinoff from Pfizer in 2013. According to GeneDx, Chen was instrumental in building Zoetis’ legal department and oversaw global security, enterprise risk management, M&A, litigation and corporate governance matters. She also led operational strategy for a specialized human health diagnostics segment within Zoetis. Before the spinoff,…

Melissa Garrett is promoted to the role NYSE-listed tech company Wolfspeed has promoted Melissa Garrett to become senior vice president and general counsel. According to her LinkedIn profile, Garrett was previously vice president of legal for employment and non-patent litigation with the firm. Before joining Wolfspeed she was vice president, deputy general counsel and assistant corporate secretary at Kangaroo Express, an operating trade name of The Pantry. Earlier in her career she was an attorney with law firms Jackson Lewis and Paul Hastings. She has experience in corporate governance, contracts and negotiations, litigation management, employment law, policy and M&A. According…

Antonious Porch has previously held roles at Soundcloud and Nickelodeon Condé Nast, publisher of titles including Vogue and The New Yorker, has hired Antonious Porch as general counsel and corporate secretary, effective February next year. Porch is joining Condé Nast following more than six years at Soundcloud, where he has been general counsel and chief diversity officer. Before his time at Soundcloud, he was general counsel at Shazam Entertainment. According to his LinkedIn profile, Porch previously spent 11 years as senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Nickelodeon, a role in which he led business and legal affairs for…

Colette Honorable is taking on a larger role at the utility company Colette Honorable is taking on an expanded role at Exelon Corp as its next chief legal officer (CLO) and corporate secretary. Honorable is at present executive vice president for public policy and chief external affairs officer for the company. She will continue leading Exelon’s public policy, legislative and regulatory affairs and corporate-giving work. Honorable will succeed Gayle Littleton, who is stepping down as executive vice president, CLO and corporate secretary effective January 1, 2025. Littleton will then take on the role of special adviser to the CEO until…

Alyssa Harvey Dawson’s career includes legal roles at Netflix and eBay HubSpot’s chief legal officer (CLO) Alyssa Harvey Dawson will step down effective December 31, according to an SEC filing. She has agreed to continue as an employee in a transitional role through March 1, 2025. A HubSpot spokesperson says an executive search for Harvey Dawson’s successor is underway. ‘We are incredibly grateful for Alyssa’s contributions over the past two years and wish her all the best in her future endeavors,’ the spokesperson says in a statement. Harvey Dawson did not respond immediately to a request for comment. According to…

Kevin O’Connor will succeed company veteran Maryanne Lavan Governance Intelligence is inviting members of governance teams from around the world to take part in a new online survey – with responses now due by December 20. The survey is designed to generate practical benchmarking data that governance teams can use to guide their work in 2025 and help keep their colleagues and boards abreast of latest practices across the industry. By taking part in the anonymous survey, professionals will be adding to a dataset that Governance Intelligence will use to bring readers actionable information in the months ahead. In this…

Deputy becomes Ryan Brown’s successor Experts on a panel at Governance Intelligence’s recent Corporate Governance Forum in New York explored some of the best practices for conducting board assessments, a process that has attracted increased attention and that professionals may want to start working on now ahead of proxy season. The board evaluation is an essential means for checking whether directors are working effectively and fulfilling their duties as a board, as committees and as individuals. Conducted well, the process should help boost performance and identify or provide the basis for addressing any issues. Corporate secretaries play a key role…

Craig Richardson has been with the railroad firm since 2016 Craig Richardson, executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary with Union Pacific Railroad, will retire on March 31, 2025. In anticipation of the transition, Christina Conlin will join Union Pacific effective December 2 as senior vice president and deputy general counsel. Richardson has held his current position, in which he oversees all aspects of the company’s legal affairs and leads its claims management team, since December 2020. Before joining Union Pacific in 2016 as associate general counsel, he was principal shareholder at law firm Greenberg Traurig and had…