H.W. St. John hired Gregory Manciocchi, previously an operations manager for Mohawk Global Logistics, as an air import expeditor.
The National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Board of Directors reelected Ambassador Alan Wolff to continue to serve as NFTC Chairman, a position he initially assumed in 2011, the NFTC send in a press release on Oct. 9. Wolff is Senior Counsel at McKenna Long & Aldridge. “Alan’s expertise and counsel have been invaluable in guiding and shaping the NFTC’s trade advocacy efforts in many areas, and he is an asset to the NFTC and our members," said NFTC President Bill Reinsch. Wolff is also co-chair of the Innovation Policy Forum of the National Academies’ Science Technology and Economic Policy Board, a National Associate of the National Academies, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He worked at the Office of U.S. Trade Representative in the Nixon and Ford administration.
Peter Rose, CEO of Expeditors International, will retire on March 1, the company said in a press release. The company will announce the new CEO in conjunction with the company's managers' meeting in January, it said. Rose is expected to remain as Chairman of the Board of Directors up until the annual meeting in May 2015, the company said.
Williams Mullen hired Christopher Stagg, previously a senior policy advisor with the U.S. State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, the firm said.
King & Spalding hired Alejandro Jara, former deputy director general at the World Trade Organization, as senior counsel in the WTO and international trade practice of its Geneva office.
Jim Bartlett, Northrop Grumman's Senior Counsel, Export/Import Law, left the company to start his own firm, he said in his Import/Export Daily Update publication. Bartlett will continue to publish the update through his new firm, Law Office of James E. Bartlett III, he said.
Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg hired Arnold Fried, previously a solo practitioner and before that a lawyer in the Food and Drug Administration's Chief Counsel's Office, as Of Counsel, the law firm said.
32 Advisors said Carter Lawson, ex-deputy general counsel for the Export-Import Bank of the U.S.,, will join the firm Oct. 1 as a principal in its Washington, D.C., office.
The Law Offices of Jon Yormick hired Brenda Cisneros to work in the firm's Buffalo, N.Y., office, the law firm said. Cisneros is licensed in Mexico and awaiting admission to the New York bar. Cisneros will also work with Yormick's affiliate firm in Mexico Boutique Legal Internacional. “As more U.S. and Canadian companies focus attention on Mexico as a growing market and manufacturing location for sectors such as aerospace, Brenda and our affiliate firm will be able to serve the increasing needs of those companies,” said Jon Yormick, who founded the group.
Sandra (Dee) Lord, a former administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration, joined the International Trade Commission as an Administrative Law Judge.