Allan Rauch, former chief counsel of Bed Bath and Beyond (from left); Jonathan Chang, former general counsel of Tesla; and Bernhard Goepelt, outgoing GC of The Coca Cola Co. (Courtesy photos)
The end of the year brought high-level departures for Tesla Inc., Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and The Coca-Cola Co. as general counsel retired or were hired elsewhere.
Jonathan Chang, who became the third general counsel to leave Tesla within a year, began a new gig at an artificial intelligence startup. Allan Rauch, who had been at retailer Bed Bath and Beyond for 25 years, received the ax in a new CEO’s board revamp. Bernhard Goepelt, a legal department mainstay at Coca-Cola since 1992, announced his retirement. Carla Christofferson, the chief legal officer of AECOM, left the infrastructure company. Gottlieb Keller will retire in March after serving as general counsel at pharmaceutical giant Roche for more than a decade.
