HP CLO Kim Rivera Appointed to Expanded Business, Strategy Role
Kim Rivera, HP's CLO and a vocal advocate for diversity in the legal field, will start an expanded business role at the company next month.
December 05, 2018 at 10:49 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Corporate Counsel
Kim Rivera, chief legal officer and general counsel of HP, at the company's Palo Alto, California, offices.
Many in-house counsel strive to be not only a legal leader, but a business one, too.
This week, HP Inc.'s longtime chief legal officer Kim Rivera made the leap to business leader as the tech company's new president, strategy and business management. Rivera will start the role on Jan. 1, 2019, taking over for retiring interim chief operating officer Cathie Lesjak.
HP announced Rivera's expanded role Monday in a press release, calling her a “proven leader who has spent her career working with Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries managing an array of business, strategy, risk and legal disciplines.”
“Since joining HP, Kim has proven herself time and again, not only as an expert in legal and policy areas but as an essential adviser to our business and regional leadership team and board of directors,” said HP president and chief executive officer Dion Weisler. “Her understanding of the entire organization, combined with her ability to thoughtfully navigate highly complex issues, have added tremendous value to our business.”
Rivera joined Palo Alto, California-based HP in 2015 as CLO and since then has been responsible for the company's legal team, government relations, compliance and ethics. Earlier this year, Rivera told Corporate Counsel that HP's legal organization had 375 employees in more than 30 global locations, around half of whom are lawyers.
She also has been a strong voice for increasing diversity in the legal industry. In 2017, she announced HP would withhold up to 10 percent of legal fees from firms that did not meet set diversity requirements.
Rivera required firms to have ”at least one diverse firm relationship partner, regularly engaged with HP on billing and staffing issues” or “at least one woman and one racially/ethnically diverse attorney, each performing or managing at least 10 percent of the billable hours worked on HP matters” to avoid cut fees.
“I sent a letter to firms on why diversity and inclusion matters to us,” Rivera said at a Harvard Law School event last year. “I said, 'If you want to work with us, this is the condition. Give us partners and teams staffed with women and minorities and if you don't, we'll withhold 10 percent of your fees until you comply.' We didn't lose anybody.”
Prior to joining HP, Rivera was chief legal officer and corporate secretary of DaVita HealthCare Partners. She's also served as the chief compliance officer and head of international legal services at The Clorox Co. and chief litigation counsel for Rockwell Automation.
She began her legal career as a litigation associate at Jones Day after graduating from Harvard Law School.
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