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Michael Burns will become chief legal officer in January Rail company CSX Corporation is promoting Michael Burns to become senior vice president and chief legal officer (CLO), effective January 2, 2025. Burns will succeed Nathan Goldman, executive vice president and CLO, who is retiring on January 1 after spending 21 years with the company. Burns is at present vice president and general counsel with CSX. In his new role, he will oversee all of the company’s legal and regulatory affairs, the corporate secretary’s office, risk management, police and infrastructure protection, environmental and hazmat matters and audit functions. Since joining CSX…

Kelly Welsh to succeed Hope Melhman, who is joining Ally Financial 2024 is almost over and, while it is not yet time to wrap it up (earnings season is not over yet and we still have a slightly consequential election coming up), it is worthwhile to return to one of the hottest corporate stories of the year: the larger-than-life fight between The Walt Disney Company, with its superstar CEO Bob Iger, against activist fund Trian Partners led by Nelson Peltz. It delivers great learnings for both governance and IR practitioners. This clash of the titans has had many plot twists…

Rob Leinwand has been with the Beaverton, Oregon-based company since 2004 Nike has named Rob Leinwand as its next executive vice president and chief legal officer (CLO). Leinwand is at present vice president, deputy general counsel with the sportswear company, which he joined in 2004. In his new role he will report to Elliott Hill, president and CEO. Leinwand will succeed Ann Miller, who will become executive vice president of global sports marketing at Nike. She in turn will succeed John Slusher, who is retiring from the company later this year after 26 years. According to Leinwand’s LinkedIn profile, during…

Angel Shelton Willis is joining from Sealed Air Corporation The Kraft Heinz Company has recruited Angel Shelton Willis as executive vice president, global general counsel and corporate affairs officer, effective November 18. Willis is joining Kraft Heinz from Sealed Air Corporation where she has been vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary leading the company’s global legal, ethics and compliance, regulatory and corporate affairs functions since 2019. She previously spent more than 14 years at Ingersoll Rand Company (now Trane Technologies) where she held several roles, most recently as vice president and general counsel for Europe, Middle East, India and…

Miranda Tolar will take up her new role in January ABM Industries is promoting Miranda Tolar to become executive vice president and general counsel, effective January 1, 2025. In her new role, Tolar will oversee legal, compliance, risk and safety issues for the company. She will succeed Andrea Newborn, who is retiring but will continue to work with the company during a transition period that ends in February 2025. Tolar joined ABM in 2011 and currently serves as senior vice president and deputy general counsel overseeing litigation and employment law. She was previously a partner in the labor and employment…

Rob Beard is also a former general counsel at Micron Technology Coherent Corp has recruited Rob Beard as the company’s new chief legal and global affairs officer and corporate secretary. Beard joined Coherent from Mastercard Incorporated, where also served as chief legal and global affairs officer. According to his LinkedIn profile, he had moved to Mastercard in 2023 having previously spent nine years at Micron Technology. During that time, he held a number of positions, most recently as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Before moving in-house, Beard was an associate with law firm Shearman & Sterling in…

Tracy Crandall taking the reins from Edward Moore Edward Moore, RPM International’s senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer (CCO), will retire later this year. His successor is Tracy Crandall, the company’s vice president for compliance and sustainability and associate general counsel. She became vice president, general counsel and CCO earlier this month, with Moore continuing as corporate counsel until his retirement. Moore joined RPM in 2006 as vice president and general counsel, adding the CCO title in 2011 and becoming senior vice president in 2013. Before joining the company he was an attorney with law firm Calfee…

Charles Dadswell to stay on as adviser for several months Illumina has announced that Charles Dadswell has stepped down as general counsel and corporate secretary. According to the DNA sequencing company, Dadswell has agreed to remain an Illumina employee as an adviser to CEO Jacob Thaysen and the board until March 31, 2025. The company has appointed Scott Davies as acting general counsel and secretary while it carries out a search for Dadswell’s permanent successor. According to his LinkedIn profile, Dadswell joined Illumina in 2013 having previously been vice president, general counsel for the Americas and corporate director for global…

Todd Carpenter will step down next year Todd Carpenter, general counsel and chief compliance officer of natural gas company Kinetik Holdings, will retire from the firm effective February 28, 2025. According to Kinetik, Carpenter will continue with his current day-to-day responsibilities and help with the transition to his successor. Following his retirement, he will also continue to support the company, which has begun an internal and external search. Kinetik says Carpenter has been general counsel since the closing of the merger between EagleClaw Midstream and Altus Midstream, the transaction that created Kinetik. Before then he had been general counsel of…

Jacqui Krum to take on the role early next year Jacqui Krum will succeed Ellen Whittemore as general counsel and executive vice president of casino company Wynn Resorts following Whittemore’s retirement in early 2025. Krum is at present general counsel and senior vice president at Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor resort, in Everett, Massachusetts. She joined the company in 2013 to work on the development of gaming projects in the US and abroad and was a member of the team that secured the competitive gaming license bid in the Eastern Massachusetts area for Wynn Resorts. In 2015, she moved from…