Columbia Law School

University of Arizona

Deer Valley High School

Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer at Nuance Communications

XPO (NYSE: XPO) is one of the largest providers of asset-based less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation in North America, with proprietary technology that moves goods efficiently through its network. Together with its business in Europe, XPO serves approximately 48,000 customers with 554 locations and 38,000 employees.

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

Chief legal officer of software company with operations in 40+ countries that is the pioneer and leader in conversational AI innovations for the healthcare industry and large enterprises.  Products include health IT voice recognition solutions, computer-assisted documentation solutions for EHRs, and voice biometric security solutions for fraud detection.  

Leader of global team of 40+ attorneys and legal professionals.  Member of executive team executing transformation of the company's strategy, culture and governance.  Corporate secretary and advisor to board of directors.  Chief compliance officer managing team of privacy, HIPAA, and other compliance professionals and litigation, IP/patent, and employment counsel.  Legal lead of active M&A program including $400M carve out and sale of imaging business, carve out and spin-off of $1B+ auto tech business, carve out and sale of healthcare transcription business, and sale of company to Microsoft for $20B in 2022.  

Nuance was publicly traded and NASDAQ-listed until its acquisition by Microsoft in March 2022.

Nuance Communications

Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer

Chief legal officer of dynamic publicly-traded telecommunications company that provides fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud services to enterprise customers, with operations in U.S., Canada and EU, and revenues of $2.5B 

•	Legal lead of active M&A strategy, responsible for evaluating, negotiating and consummating numerous acquisitions and divestitures including $1.5B purchase of network infrastructure company and four other completed acquisitions and divesitures 
•	Legal lead of $4B+ in capital-raising transactions
•	Responsible for corporate governance, including advising board of directors, drafting charters and policies, preparing board material and planning board meetings, and recruiting and on-boarding new directors
•	Legal oversight and preparation of all SEC filings, NYSE reporting and shareholder communications
•	Responsible for all outside law firm engagements and management of outside legal spend
•	Chief compliance officer responsible for design and implementation of corporate compliance program
•	Chief privacy officer managing compliance with US, Canada and EU privacy laws
•	Head of government affairs strategy, including engagement with FCC and state regulatory authorities
•	Interim head of HR function (Jan-August 2018), leading HR team responsible for Zayo’s ~3700 employees in US, Canada and EU

Zayo Group

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Executive officer, chief legal officer and chief compliance officer of publicly-traded SEC reporting company with mining and smelting operations in U.S. and Canada.
 
Provided ongoing legal and strategic advice to executive team, board of directors, head office and operations managers

Oversight of corporate governance, SEC and Canadian securities reporting and compliance,  NYSE and TSX compliance, M&A transactions, litigation, commercial contracts, First Nations relations, corporate policies and ethics and compliance program.  

Executive oversight of and participation in company-wide corporate social responsibility program and behavioral safety program and training.

Thompson Creek Metals Company

Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Represented purchasers and sellers in private company M&A transactions and domestic and foreign issuers in public and private securities offerings of debt and equity.  Provided on-going compliance and strategic advice to firm clients on full spectrum of corporate matters, including '34 Act filings and compliance.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Partner; Associate

Corporate transactional work and general corporate legal advice.  Represented purchasers and sellers in M&A transactions; issuers and underwriters in public and private securities offerings of debt and equity; and issuers in securitization transactions.

Wendy Cassity