Eleanor Lacey (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM)Sophos General Counsel Eleanor Lacey Tapped to Lead Asana's Legal Team
Eleanor Lacey, a general counsel with more than two decades of in-house experience, is moving to work management platform company Asana from British software company Sophos Group.
July 25, 2019 at 09:25 AM
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Veteran general counsel Eleanor Lacey has been tapped to lead another legal department, this time at teamwork management application company Asana.
San Francisco-based Asana announced Lacey as its new head of legal and general counsel Thursday morning. She started the role Monday. Lacey oversees “all areas of privacy, compliance, IP and commercial,” a company representative said, and reports to chief executive officer Dustin Moskovitz.
“Eleanor's proven track record of building scalable, business-focused teams is a tremendous asset for Asana,” Moskovitz said in a press release. “Eleanor's deep passion for our mission and pioneering vision for the future of work, coupled with her extensive global legal experience, is an excellent addition to our leadership team.”
Asana is Lacey's sixth legal executive stint. Most recently, she's served as the executive vice president, chief legal officer and group company secretary of Sophos Group, a British cybersecurity software firm. Lacey spent nearly three years in Sophos' Santa Clara, California, office, guiding the company through industry changes such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.
When she joined, the company had four in-house lawyers. She reported to Kris Hagerman, the company's chief executive officer and a colleague from a former general counsel role at Corel Corp. At the time of her hiring, Hagerman described Lacey as a general counsel who “combines an in-depth knowledge of corporate law with an entrepreneurial spirit.”
Prior to joining Sophos, Lacey led the legal department at SurveyMonkey for 4½ years as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. She has served as the general counsel of software company Niku Corp. and Employeeservice.com.
Lacey has also held in-house counsel roles at Support.com and Computer Associates. She started her in-house career as corporate counsel for San Rafael, California-based Autodesk Inc. in 1997. She received her law degree from Yale Law School.
Outside of her in-house roles, Lacey has also participated in groups promoting professional development for women, including Hipower and the Women's General Counsel Network, of which Asana's previous general counsel, Eve Saltman, is an active member.
Lacey has also participated in Bay Area panels discussing women's advancement in-house.
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