FLIR Systems Names Sonia Galindo Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
July 15 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced Sonia Galindo
as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, and Chief
Ethics and Compliance Officer. Ms. Galindo will assume a key role
on the executive team reporting to President and CEO Jim Cannon,
providing leadership and management of all legal and compliance
matters in support of the company’s business objectives.
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FLIR names Sonia Galindo as Senior Vice
President, General Counsel, Secretary, and Chief Ethics and
Compliance Officer. (Photo: Business Wire)
Ms. Galindo will lead FLIR’s global legal team and serve as the
primary legal advisor to senior management and to its Board of
Directors. She will have responsibility for all legal issues
worldwide, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate
governance, intellectual property, export-import, data privacy,
cybersecurity, ligation, employee law and other matters that arise
in course of business at FLIR. In addition, she will manage legal
corporate matters including SEC filings and reports, commercial
contracts, and legal aspects of ITAR and Global Trade
Compliance.
Ms. Galindo joins FLIR from Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST), an
education technology software company, where she served as General
Counsel and Corporate Secretary since 2015. During her legal
career, which started at the U.S. Securities & Exchange
Commission and included private practice at a large national law
firm, Ms. Galindo has spent the last 14 years providing legal
counsel at multiple international publicly traded companies with
increased responsibilities and capacity. From 2012-14 she worked at
Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. as Vice President, Associate General
Counsel-Corporate, and Secretary and from 2005-08 at McCormick
& Company, Inc. as Associate Counsel & Assistant Secretary.
In addition, Ms. Galindo served as Ethics & Employment Counsel
at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2008-11. Ms.
Galindo earned a Juris Doctorate from the John Marshall Law School
and both a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Bachelor of
Arts degree in Finance at Hood College for Women.
“Sonia brings a wealth of legal expertise to FLIR, and I look
forward to her contributions to the executive team,” said Jim
Cannon, President and CEO at FLIR. “At FLIR, our task is to exceed
our commitments with integrity, and Sonia will provide the
leadership necessary to operate in accordance with the global laws
under which the company operates.”
Ms. Galindo will be based out of FLIR’s Washington D.C.-area
headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
About FLIR Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1978, FLIR Systems is a world-leading industrial
technology company focused on intelligent sensing solutions for
defense, industrial, and commercial applications. FLIR Systems’
vision is to be “The World’s Sixth Sense,” creating technologies to
help professionals make more informed decisions that save lives and
livelihoods. For more information, please visit www.flir.com and
follow @flir.
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