Cota Inc., a New York-based health care data and analytics company, has hired Elizabeth Rushforth to serve as chief legal officer and executive vice president.

She joined Cota from Sungevity, a Silicon Valley-based solar electricity company, where she served a stint as CLO. Prior to that, she worked as general counsel and senior vice president for software analytics company MedeAnalytics Inc. and as GC of another software company, Unwired Planet Inc.