The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices June 3:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices May 27:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Feb. 3:
Ballard Spahr hires trademark attorney Susan Smith from Hunton Andrews as partner, Trademark and Copyright practice group ... TechNet adds Servando Esparza, ex-Bird Rides, as executive director-Texas and the Southeast ... Electronic Transactions Association hires Max Behlke, ex-National Conference of State Legislatures, as director-state government affairs.
Ballard Spahr hires trademark attorney Susan Smith from Hunton Andrews as partner, Trademark and Copyright practice group ... TechNet adds Servando Esparza, ex-Bird Rides, as executive director-Texas and the Southeast ... Electronic Transactions Association hires Max Behlke, ex-National Conference of State Legislatures, as director-state government affairs.
Element Electronics hires Randy Wick from Dell Technologies as senior vice president-sales ... AT&T and WarnerMedia promote Jennifer Biry to chief financial officer, replacing Pascal Desroches, becoming parent company AT&T's CFO ... Electronic Transactions Association hires Max Behlke, ex-National Conference of State Legislatures, as director-state government affairs ... Viamedia promotes David Solomon to president-CEO, succeeding Mark Lieberman, who remains on the board ... BitPay hires Jagruti Solanki, ex-Aprio, as chief financial officer, and Shaun Worley, ex-Swivel, as vice president -product ... Spok appoints Kristen Lalowski, ex-MDLive telemedicine company, as chief product officer ... BSA|The Software Alliance adds DocuSign as global member and the company's General Counsel Tram Phi to the BSA board ... CrowdStrike puts Laura Schumacher, AbbVie chief legal officer, on its board ... Once Salesforce buying Slack in approximately $27.7 billion deal, with Slack becoming operating unit of Salesforce and continuing to be led by CEO Stewart Butterfield; closing expected in Q2 of Salesforce’s FY 2022, ending late July.
Google-backed research company Calico and biopharmaceutical company AbbVie are planning to build a research and development center in the San Francisco Bay Area to develop anti-aging drugs, including those for neurodegeneration and cancer, said a Calico news release Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1nxeMaY). The companies will each invest $250 million for the project and could each invest an additional $500 million, it said. AbbVie’s research and development experience will “complement Calico’s biotechnology expertise and innovative scientific approaches,” said Michael Severino, AbbVie chief scientific officer, in the release.
CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske met with industry leaders during a trip to Chicago, said a CBP press release. He participated in a trade roundtable, along with officials from CBP’s Center of Excellence and Expertise in Chicago, O’Hare International Airport Service, Expeditors Chicago, Euromarket Designs, Tellabs, Sears Holdings Corporation, Abbvie, HAVI Global Solutions and aides to U.S. lawmakers that represent Illinois. Kerlikowske then met with the O’Hare Airline Managers Association, a group comprised of officials Chicago Department of Aviation, British Airways, Qatar Airlines, and the Transportation Security Administration.
The Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 20 formally announced the beginning of its Secure Supply Chain Pilot for expedited entry of drug products, listing 13 companies that it approved for participation. Under the program, which began earlier this month, drug importers that meet certain requirements receive expedited entry for up to 5 specific drug products per importer. The drugs must be imported from a manufacturer identified on the importer’s initial application to participate in the pilot, and must arrive through a designated port of entry, use the identified customs broker or entry filer, and must be intended for a designated ultimate consignee. The pilot is scheduled to run until February 2016.
CBP’s Pharmaceutical, Health and Chemicals Center of Excellence and Expertise met with industry partners from government and private sector in August to discuss issues facing pharmaceutical, health and chemical industries such as disruptions to supply chains, CBP said. According to a news release, the CEEs “process participating importers within 10 CEE industries by account” and allow CBP to quickly adapt to industry changes. CBP said that CEE staff uses “industry knowledge to resolve holds and mitigate requests for information or CF-28s—oftentimes before the accounts know it themselves.” CEE Director Leon Hayward said these efforts reduce costs for the trade community and that the CEEs were “designed as the centerpiece of CBP’s 21st Century trade modernization efforts.” Other industry speakers called the CEEs “the nexus for engaging with the government on all questions for their imports.”