Mr Dillon has 25 years of corporate legal experience, much of it in the technology sector. According to Legal Week newspaper, he was most recently general counsel as US networking solutions producer Silver Spring Networks, and also spent 14 years in the legal department of Sun Microsystems – including a period as the company’s GC – prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation.
Meanwhile, global timber trade network Lesprom reports that Swedish paper manufacturer Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) is losing its general counsel, Anders Nyberg to AB Industrivärden, one of the Nordic region’s leading holding companies.
Mr Nyberg had been with SCA for 24 years, but leaves to become executive vice president in charge of corporate governance and legal affairs for Industrivärden.
Mr Nyberg will be replaced at SCA by Mikael Schmidt, who joined the SCA Group in 1992 and served most recently as head of legal affairs in Brussels for the packaging operation, which was recently divested.
The appointments take effect on 1 October.
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