Room at the top for experienced senior in-house lawyers
“I’d like to see general counsel become bolder,” says Jos Sclater, chief financial officer of Ultra Electronics, the UK-based defence specialist.
Sclater is the former general counsel at GKN, the UK aerospace and automotive group, and he became its chief financial officer in 2017, before taking up the same role at oil company Castrol, and then joining Ultra.
He is an exemplar both of how the remit of the top company lawyer in leading companies has broadened and of the trend for general counsel to advance from legal roles.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Reena SenGupta
