ACC AWARDS 2021 finalists
Tim Hartin Senior vice president and chief legal officer TMC HealthCare
Hartin has served as senior vice president and chief legal officer for TMC HealthCare since 2013. He is an experienced general counsel for integrated health care systems, serving as outside counsel and in-house counsel in the health care sector since 1993. Hartin’s responsibilities include all legal aspects of compliance, contracting, risk management and business operations as well as serving as legal and strategic adviser to the hospital and clinical leadership teams responsible for TMC’s strategic, financial and operational success. SURPRISING FACT: “During the COVID-19 pandemic, each member of the legal team took shifts helping out in the hospital.”
Harvest Health & Recreation legal department
Leslie Hess
To meet the challenges of providing legal advice in a rapidly evolving and emerging industry over the past year, the Harvest in-house legal team has doubled in size, growing from three to six attorneys. Among other normal day-to-day functions of an in-house legal team, the Harvest legal team has helped the company navigate the treacherous waters of going public on a foreign securities exchange, having to quickly respond to regulatory enforcement and compliance matters, oftentimes with little to no precedent to rely on, and completing mergers and acquisitions in an environment fraught with risk. Since going public in November 2018, the Harvest legal team closed twenty transactions in multiple states totaling more than $500 million.
Hess oversees DDAZ’s legal affairs, federal and state regulatory compliance and organizational risk management. She also leads DDAZ’s government affairs and advocacy initiatives in coordination with the Delta Dental Plans Association. She serves on the board of directors for Arizona Helping Hands and is a founding member of the Cactus Wren Chapter of the National Charity League.
General counsel and chief compliance/risk management officer Delta Dental of Arizona
LESSON LEARNED IN 2020: “Initially, I was struck by the differing attitudes related to government vs. science; the impact on remote work, employee performance and every facet of a business. Over time, I saw attitudes shift and find their center. It reminded me not to prejudge and to be patient with people.”
Nima Kelly Chief legal officer GoDaddy
Kelly, who announced she will be retiring in 2021, joined GoDaddy in 2002 and became GoDaddy’s general counsel in 2012. Under her leadership, Kelly built a high-performing legal team that took the company public, structured ongoing M&A transactions, including the $1.85 billion acquisition of Host Europe Group, and established corporate governance and public company processes. She has built a diverse legal department, 65 percent of which is comprised of women, and is the executive sponsor of GoDaddy Latinos In Technology. She’s somewhat of a corporate historian in view of her tenure, and often referred to as the “VP of everything.”
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