Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) has promoted Nichole Tennyson to the newly created role of chief legal officer (CLO).
The move expands on Tennyson’s previous role as general counsel. As CLO, she now leads a team across North America and is responsible for all legal and compliance matters, corporate audit and external affairs. She also joins the company’s senior leadership team, internally referred to as the operating committee, which she will advise on risk a...
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Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) takes compliance and ethics seriously, and on a global basis. In fact, its team comprises more than 30 dedicated individuals spread across three regions and 14 countries.
Another hint as to JLL’s extensive worldwide compliance and ethics work is the name of one of its key elements: Ethics Everywhere. This program includes a global network of ethics officers, and the company has a community of ethics liaisons within business units.
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– CNBC reported that Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla signed on to an industry letter in support of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to regulate drugs, after a federal judge in Texas suspended the agency’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Bourla was among more than 200 pharmaceutical co...
Lowe’s Companies has hired Juliette Pryor as executive vice president, chief legal officer (CLO) and corporate secretary, effective May 3.
She succeeds Bill McCanless, who has been Lowe’s executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary since 2015. He advised the company last year of his intention to retire at the end of May.
Pryor will join Lowe’s from Albertsons, where she has been executive vice president, general counsel and corpora...
Molson Coors Beverage Company has announced in an SEC filing that Anne-Marie D’Angelo, the company’s chief legal and government affairs officer, has resigned for personal reasons.
The filing states that Molson Coors and D’Angelo have entered into an agreement under which she will provide legal advisory consu...
Jeffrey Heeter, executive vice president and general counsel of Alcoa Corporation, plans to retire from the company, effective September 1, according to an SEC filing.
Heeter joined Alcoa in 1998 as associate counsel in the company’s legal department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his time with the firm, he h...
This is the third year in succession that PepsiCo has taken home an award for its ESG reporting. The firm shares detailed ESG-related information with stakeholders across several platforms that in themselves continue to adapt and improve. The 2021 ESG summary, for example, marked a shift from the previous sustainability report with a high-level overview of the company’s pep+ (or PepsiCo Positive) agenda and progress made during the year.
The summary is also design...
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has decided to prioritize climate-related information in its first reporting year, part of a series of measures designed to ease the burden on companies from the new disclosures.
The ISSB has agreed that companies need not ‘provide disclosures about sustainability-related risks and opportunities beyond climate-related information’ in the first year of reporting, according to a statement from the organizatio...
‘Some say you can use artificial intelligence. [But] I think we would like to have some people. We want those people around the boardroom table to be the heart, the mind, the conscience of the business,’ says Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO and founder of Competent Boards.
In this episode of the Governance Matters podcast, editor-in-chief James Beech sits down with Jorgensen to talk about preparing boards for the challenges that lie ahead.
‘When we talk about...
– Reuters reported that, according to data from legal consultancy Fairfax Associates, there were at least as many large law firm mergers completed in the first quarter of 2023 as in all of 2022. So far this year, 1,400-lawyer Holland & Knight has merged with 257-lawyer Waller Lansden Dortch & D...