Appointments Monthly archive

Whitney Chatterjee will join NYSE-listed Apollo Global Management as general counsel on April 3. In that role she will be responsible for covering Apollo’s asset management and retirement services businesses. On January 1, 2024, she will become chief legal officer, succeeding John Suydam who has been in the role since he joined the firm in 2006. At that time he will become senior adviser and remain a partner of Apollo. Before joining Apollo, Suydam was a pa...

Tesla has appointed Brandon Ehrhart as general counsel and corporate secretary. In a tweet, the company says: ‘Excited to have Brandon Ehrhart join the Tesla team as our general counsel & to have Dinna Eskin continue in a leadership role in Tesla Legal as we build a world class team!’ According to his LinkedIn profile, Ehrhart previously spent more than 20 years at Dish Network, most r...

Delaware-based WSFS Bank, the primary subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed WSFS Financial Corporation, has made twin appointments to its legal and compliance functions. Brionna Denby has joined the bank as senior vice president and general counsel, and Michael Dzielak has joined as senior vice president and director of financial crimes. In her new role, Denby reports to chief legal officer Lisa Washington and is the primary adviser on matters related to litigation, transacti...

Brooklyn, New York-based Etsy has recruited Colin Stretch as chief legal officer and corporate secretary, effective February 14. Stretch’s experience includes being general counsel of Facebook (now Meta Platforms) between 2013 and 2019, during which time he led the company’s legal, compliance and corporate legal affairs functions. After leaving Facebook, he spent two years as leader-in-residence at Columbia University Law School’s Reuben Mark Initiative...