Exterro this month named prominent discovery expert Jenny Hamilton as its first-ever general counsel, a role that will put her over the company’s HR and legal teams while also allowing her to share her expertise with the sales and engineering teams.

Jenny Hamilton, general counsel of Exterro. Courtesy photo

Beaverton, Oregon-based Exterro is a provider governance, risk and compliance, or GRC, software. Hamilton comes to the job with more than 15 years of in-house experience, most recently as deputy general counsel at legal services firm HaystackID. Previously, she spent more than a decade at John Deere,  where she led its global evidence team, building its e-discovery, investigations and cross-border discovery practice.