Features December 2020

Joe Ferguson – DBi Services LLC

Est. reading time: 5 mins

Whether it’s hurricane cleanup in Florida or repairs on a tough stretch of Texas highway, the work goes on. It’s an attitude that Joe Ferguson, general counsel for Pennsylvania-based DBi Services, has taken to heart. Only instead of clearing debris, he’s removing roadblocks to success. An asset management and infrastructure services company working with entities […]

Kevin Goldberg – Nestle North America (Gerber)

Est. reading time: 5 mins

Eight years ago, Kevin Goldberg was at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis as the Giants defeated Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI. Five years before that, he watched the Giants spoil the Pats’ bid for a perfect season by defeating New England in Super Bowl XLII. In all, the Giants […]

Daniel Lorenzini – Sandvik

Est. reading time: 4 mins

Merely mentioning mining in some circles can conjure up collapsed tunnels and black lung disease, ever-present dangers in one of the world’s toughest occupations of hauling raw materials from the ground. But travel to Finland and hop in the cabin of the latest technological mining equipment with a coffee and you may be relaxing or […]

Bass Wallace – TETRA Technologies Inc. and CSI Compressco LP

Est. reading time: 5 mins

While Bass Wallace enjoys a respite from a quarter-century tending to complex in-house law at a couple of Texas-based energy services companies with international operations, he reckons he’ll remain active in the industry. He’s got experience in spades to leverage from TETRA Technologies Inc., the Woodlands company from which he recently retired as senior vice […]

Miek Harbur – The New Home Co.

Est. reading time: 5 mins

Larry Webb took a gamble when he hired the first in-house counsel for New Home Co., but then he’d already started a residential construction company in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession and that was paying off. So, in 2015, on the advice of Chief Financial Officer John Stephens, hired after New Home […]

CMI – Hector Del Río

Est. reading time: 4 mins

Building infrastructure, laying down electrical grids, producing foods for an international market and providing development opportunities to communities across Central America: It’s an interesting business model developed by Guatemala’s CMI, especially if one considers the business got famous for its fried chicken, says Hector Del Río. But as CMI Foods legal director explains, supporting communities […]

Mike Shuckerow – Aspiration Partners Inc.

Est. reading time: 5 mins

It’s late, you’re hungry and low on gas. So you fill your tank, maybe grab a burrito or a slice of pizza and something to drink and get on with your life. And if you use your debit card, somewhere on the other side of the planet, a tree gets planted. You may never see […]

Joe Condo – Ørsted

Est. reading time: 5 mins

Talk about a pivot: Based just outside of Copenhagen, Denmark, Ørsted has transitioned from fossil fuels to renewable energy in just 10 years—a willing cog in the Scandinavian nation’s trendsetting efforts to go green. For many years, Ørsted’s predecessor company was one of the most fossil fuel intensive energy companies in Europe. Today, it’s ranked […]

Beth Kinsley – Northland Investment

Est. reading time: 5 mins

“Do you give up when things get hard?” Beth Kinsley distinctly remembers the question posed by her Colby College advisor sophomore year when she was about to drop her microeconomics course due to an illness. As it turns out, she didn’t drop that course. In fact, she embraced economics as her minor. And her advisor’s […]

Mariel Picado – FIFCO

Est. reading time: 3 mins

As a lawyer, Mariel Picado is accustomed to being a stickler about rules, but as an artist, she loves to break them. Both approaches are necessary to conduct business in a world economy turned upside down by a pandemic. Working as the chief legal counsel for Florida Ice and Farm Company, a publicly traded food […]

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