GLENDALE, Calif., March 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LegalZoom.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: LZ), the primary model in on-line small enterprise formations and a number one on-line platform for authorized, compliance and tax options, has appointed Sivan Whiteley, Chief Authorized Officer and Company Secretary at Block, Inc. (previously Sq., Inc.), to its Board of Administrators, efficient March 18, 2022. As a member of the LegalZoom Board, she’s going to function an unbiased advisor to the administration group, bringing many years of expertise in authorized, regulatory, authorities affairs, compliance, company improvement and safety operations for expertise corporations that function in extremely regulated industries. Whiteley has additionally led company variety and inclusion initiatives, serving to promote skilled development for girls.
“Our Board and senior management group are excited to work with Sivan in her function as a director,” mentioned LegalZoom CEO, Dan Wernikoff. “Her expertise with high-growth expertise corporations, small enterprise service suppliers and her sturdy operational background inside extremely regulated and disruptive industries makes her a superb addition to our Board of Administrators.”
“As a pacesetter in enterprise formation providers, LegalZoom is in a novel place to be a trusted companion for small enterprise house owners from the earliest moments of their entrepreneurial journeys,” Whiteley added. “I’m excited to work intently with the total senior management group and different Board members to offer counsel and my experience to advance LegalZoom’s mission.”
Whiteley joins as a part of a broader deliberate governance rotation on the LegalZoom Board over the approaching months, which incorporates the transition off the Board for Khai Ha, co-founder and Managing Associate of GPI Capital, and David Yuan, Founder and Common Associate at Tidemark Investments and previously a Common Associate at TCV, every of whom have served as administrators since 2018. As well as, Neil Tolaney, Common Associate at TCV and former director of the LegalZoom Board has been nominated for election as a Class I director on the 2022 annual shareholder assembly in June.
“It has been a privilege to work with a superb group and Board over the previous 4 years, and to now make room for added operational and authorized experience on the Board. We stay dedicated to our funding and assured that LegalZoom is executing on a product roadmap to raised serve small and medium-sized companies with their enterprise wants and drive compounding development over the approaching years,” said Ha.
“Small companies are essential to the U.S. economic system and our nation’s social cloth. LegalZoom has a platform alternative to launch and incorporate small companies and information them by to success,” mentioned Yuan. “I’ve been honored to serve this vital firm and help its mission of democratizing regulation, and I look ahead to seeing it proceed to thrive.”
“We’re assured within the breadth of expertise and experience Sivan and Neil will deliver to the already achieved group of people who’re serving to steer LegalZoom by sustained success. I want to thank Khai and David for his or her vital contributions and for being beneficial advisers at an vital time for our transformation,” mentioned Wernikoff.
About LegalZoom
LegalZoom is a number one on-line platform for authorized and compliance options in america that’s on a mission to democratize regulation. LegalZoom operates throughout all 50 states and over 3,000 counties in america and has greater than 20 years of expertise navigating advanced laws and simplifying the authorized and compliance course of for its clients. Pushed by its core worth that each enterprise deserves the total safety of the authorized system and a easy strategy to keep compliant with it, LegalZoom helps its clients type and defend their companies, their concepts and households. In 2020, 10 % of all new LLCs and 5 % of all new firms in america had been fashioned by LegalZoom, enabling small enterprise house owners to use their vitality and keenness to their companies as an alternative of the authorized and regulatory complexity required to function them. Along with enterprise formations, LegalZoom affords ongoing compliance and tax recommendation, trademark and copyright filings and property planning paperwork to guard small companies and the households that create them.
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