Tech Company Zipwhip Hires Former Banking Exec as General Counsel
Faye Ricci, a former VP at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase & Co., said she would ensure that Zipwhip is "applying best practices around compliance and data-protection regulations, managing our industry reputation and safeguarding our customers' privacy."
June 13, 2019 at 11:43 AM
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Faye Ricci Zipwhip general counsel and senior vice president.
Seattle-based tech company Zipwhip has hired a former executive for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan Chase & Co. as its general counsel.
Zipwhip announced Wednesday it had appointed Faye Ricci as senior vice president and GC. Founded in 2007, the company sells software that businesses use to send texts to customers. It raised $51.5 million in a Series D investment round earlier this year.
Ricci succeeds Hillery Nye, now a technology and transactions attorney at Australian software company Syntonic, according to her LinkedIn profile. Nye joined Zipwhip in August 2017 and left in April.
Ricci oversees the company's transactions, business development, enterprise sales and other legal activities. She said in a written statement that she was “thrilled to join such a welcoming and inclusive team here at a critical juncture for the company.”
She added she would “collaborate with Zipwhip's impressive leadership to ensure that we're applying best practices around compliance and data-protection regulations, managing our industry reputation and safeguarding our customers' privacy.”
Before joining Zipwhip, Ricci spent more than two years as vice president of legal for Limeade Inc., a software company in Bellevue, Washington, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously served as a vice president for Bank of America and JP Morgan after leaving Heller Ehrman, an international law firm in Seattle that dissolved in 2008.
Earlier in her career, Ricci worked as general counsel and VP for CGA Investment Management Inc. in New York and as an associate at Dewey Ballantine, which merged with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae in 2007. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Zipwhip CEO and co-founder John Lauer trumpeted Ricci's “wealth of legal and management experience, especially in strategic transactions, enterprise sales and corporate governance,” which he said would “enhance Zipwhip's corporate strategy, product development and value to our customers.”
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