Zoom has named Cheree McAlpine its new chief legal officer as it continues to wade through the relatively unknown legal waters of artificial intelligence.
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The pressures of the job are further highlighted by the recent class action lawsuit that Zoom was caught up in over supposed security flaws relating to its encryption software. The video conferencing and collaboration platform ended up paying $150 million to settle.
According to Bloomberg, McAlpine is taking over from Aparna Bawa who was promoted to chief operating officer (COO) nearly four years ago and has been acting as the company’s interim legal chief ever since. Now, Bawa can focus purely on her role as the company’s COO.
Cheree McAlpine, Chief Legal Officer at Zoom, took to LinkedIn earlier this week to express her happiness with the new role: “I am thrilled to share that I have recently joined Zoom as its Chief Legal Officer.
“Zoom is revolutionising collaboration and shaping the future of work around the globe.
“I am thrilled to be a part of this innovative team and to lead its group of talented legal and compliance professionals.”
Who is McAlpine?
The new legal chief has racked up 25 years of experience in the technology industry.
McAlpine came to Zoom from Intercom Inc., where she was interred as general counsel for the software startup since 2021.
Before this, she was the number one lawyer at the lighting solutions provider Lumileds Holding BV. Lumileds was acquired by Apollo Global Management in 2017, five years before going bankrupt in 2022. McAlpine had exited the company in August of the previous year.
Prior to this, McAlpine worked for nearly four years at the global leader of electronic components and services Avnet, where she was the vice president and general counsel of the Americas.
She held a similar title at Wyse, which she worked at for seven years, including managing its $1 billion sale to Dell in 2012.
Between 1997 and 2005, McAlpine worked at the American technology company Sun Microsystems, which eventually went bust in 2010 despite Oracle completing its acquisition of the company in January of the same year.
