Damon Pike of the Pike Law Firm, Teresa Polino of Thompson Coburn, and Cyndee Todgham Cherniak of LexSage Professional Corporation were named co-chairs in the American Bar Associations Customs Committee for the 2012-2013 year.
Ted Sherman, director of Global Trade Services at Target, and Kathy Neal, director of Global Trade Compliance at Regal Beloit, were named the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) trade co-chairs.
Kecia Reynolds, ex-International Trade Commission, joins Goodwin Procter's Litigation Department in its Washington, D.C. office as a member of Goodwin’s IP Litigation Practice. She will focus on representing clients in Section 337 evidentiary hearings before the International Trade Commission, in Abbreviated New Drug Application (“ANDA”) district court litigation and in appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
Tay Yoshitani, Port of Seattle, joins the board of Expeditors International of Washington Inc.
Jin-Yong Cai of China, ex-Goldman Sachs, was named executive vice president and CEO of the World Bank's International Finance Corp.
New Commissioners for the Port of Oakland, Cestra "Ces" Butner of Horizon Beverage Co. and Bryan Parker of Davita Inc.
The Airforwarders Association said Aug. 1 it hired Clint Fisher, a former senior lobbyist for the Air Transport Association, as director of government affairs and strategic communications.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett said he would step down later this month as chairman of the Delaware River Port Authority Board of Commissioners. He said he would name Andrew Reilly, vice president and general counsel for Jefferson Health System, based in Radnor, Pa., to succeed him on the board.
Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services hired Monica White to the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as director of export compliance. White previously was Export Manager and Empowered Official within Raytheon’s Corporate Export/Import Operations office.
New officers at the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners: Gilda Gonzales, Unity Council, as president of the board; James Head, San Francisco Foundation, as first vice president and Alan Yee, Siegel and Yee, as second vice president.