US IT services business Kyndryl has named Andrew Bonzani as general counsel, replacing interim GC Mark Ridges who has been standing in since February.
Bonzani joins from US advertising company Interpublic Group (IPG), where he was also GC. At Kyndryl, he will handle all legal matters, including contracts, governance, SEC reporting and compliance.
New York-based Kyndryl provides IT advisory, implementation and managed services to enterprises in more than 60 countries globally.
At the same time, Kyndryl also named Ellen Johnson as its incoming chief financial officer, also arriving from IPG following its sale to Omnicom Group late last year.
Martin Schroeter, chairman and CEO at Kyndryl, said: “Ellen and Andrew are experienced leaders in driving financial discipline, operational excellence and strong governance at global, public companies. Their complementary experience will further enhance Kyndryl’s senior leadership team as we advance the company’s growth strategy with differentiated services that support our customers’ most complex challenges while taking disciplined actions to strengthen our business.”
Bonzani arrives after almost 14 years at IPG, having earlier been an assistant GC at IBM for more than 18 years. He started his career in private practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Ridges, meanwhile, will return to his deputy GC role having been serving as interim since February following the departure of former GC Edward Sebold. Sebold had been legal head for five years, joining from IBM where like Bonzani he was also an assistant GC.
He also spent more than 18 years at Jones Day, 12 of them as a partner, having started his career at Jenner & Block.
In other IT services-related moves, back in April US networking and cloud services provider Lumen Technologies promoted Jennifer Hodges to chief legal officer, replacing Mark Hacker who was retiring to pursue a vocation in the church.
Back in March, US data centre and digital infrastructure services provider Synteq Digital hired Will Wang as its inaugural GC from Goodwin Procter, where he was a counsel and a long-time external adviser to Synteq.
And in January, AI services business ServiceNow hired former Microsoft legal chief Hossein Nowbar as CLO and president, replacing GC Russ Elmer.
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