Tesla Inc. has hired a former Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. in-house lawyer to be its new head of corporate governance legal, building on the flurry of changes it has made within its law department this year.
Derek Windham joined Tesla last month as a senior director and deputy general counsel for corporate and securities. The position reports to the head of Tesla’s in-house legal team, who in turn reports to the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk.
Windham spent the past seven years as a corporate, securities, governance, and finance lawyer at Hewlett Packard. During his time at the company, where Windham was a vice president and associate general counsel, he became a proponent for using technology to improve corporate governance.
The world’s largest electric vehicle-maker has been shuffling its legal ranks this year as Musk faces litigation from Twitter Inc. and that company’s shareholders over his aborted $44 billion bid for the social media company.
Windham, who confirmed his move on his personal LinkedIn page, didn’t respond to a request for comment. Allison Arebalo, Tesla’s newly promoted director of human resources, also didn’t reply to a request for comment. Hewlett Packard confirmed his departure.
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