US artificial intelligence company Gong has hired Joe FitzGerald as chief legal officer, replacing John Slavitt who left the company last month.
FitGerald was most recently CLO at cloud security platform Lacework. He brings more than 25 years of experience across compliance, corporate development and transactional work. In his new role he will oversee all global legal affairs, including corporate governance, IP, data privacy and regulatory matters.
San Francisco-based Gong provides an AI-powered revenue intelligence platform for businesses to manage their revenue-generation life cycle.
Amit Bendov, CEO and co-founder of Gong, said: “Joe’s deep expertise in scaling compliance for multi-billion dollar tech companies uniquely positions him as the right leader to support our next phase of growth.”
FitzGerald spent three and a half years at Lacework until leaving in 2024 following its acquisition by cybersecurity business Fortinet. Prior to that he spent just under eight years at data storage business Pure Storage, the majority of them as CLO.
He also had in-house spells at Symantec and its predecessor business VERITAS Software across a number of legal roles, including senior vice president for legal and public affairs and VP for IP. He also spent three years as director for legal at Sun Microsystems, having started his career in private practice at legacy firm Graham & James.
He said: “Gong is at an incredible inflection point, transforming how the world’s most sophisticated revenue teams operate through AI. I am thrilled to join a team that is not only innovating at a rapid pace but is also deeply committed to building a trusted, enterprise-grade platform.
“I look forward to working with Gong to navigate the legal and regulatory landscape while supporting its mission to help revenue teams unlock their full potential.”
Slavitt, meanwhile, departed in February after four and a half years as CLO at Gong. He previously spent more than 22 years at Check Point Software Technologies, where he was general counsel.
In other recent AI-related in-house moves, back in January business workflow AI platform ServiceNow hired former Microsoft legal chief Hossein Nowbar as CLO, replacing Russ Elmer. And last June, AI-powered customer experience platform Genesys hired Allen Chiu as CLO, replacing Jim René.
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