NetApp Inc., a data management and storage company known for adopting cutting-edge technology in its law department, has announced a separation of its strategy and legal teams.
Matthew Fawcett, who spent more than a decade as general counsel for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company prior to becoming chief strategy and legal officer a year ago, is now solely in charge of strategy.
Elizabeth O’Callahan, a former deputy general counsel and chief privacy officer at NetApp who stepped into Fawcett’s general counsel job last year, is the company’s new chief legal officer.
The change comes after the company’s legal group established a reputation under Fawcett as an aggressive adopter of new technologies that were designed to embrace innovation and improve efficiencies for both in-house and outside counsel.
O’Callahan, who previously reported to Fawcett, will now report directly with Fawcett to NetApp CEO George Kurian. Lisa Borgeson, an in-house head of employment law and compliance at NetApp, took over as privacy chief last year.
Fawcett, O’Callahan, and NetApp didn’t respond to requests for comment about the legal leadership change. NetApp disclosed the new structure in a Jan. 6 statement.
Fawcett said in a statement that he always “envisioned” O’Callahan to be his successor as legal chief after hiring the former DLA Piper lawyer in 2013. “I’m...
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