The supply chain and manufacturing company Flex, formerly known as Flextronics, announced Monday it has hired Scott Offer as its general counsel.
Offer comes from Lenovo where he was senior vice president and general counsel and will join the company in San Jose.
He replaces Susan Marsch, who had been acting as interim general counsel since Jonathan Hoak, 67, who departed in July to form a legal operations consulting firm.
Flex has a diverse business. It manufactures the hardware dongle for Google’s Chromecast, which allows people to use their televisions to watch movies online, and it also works with Nike on sneakers. It works on design, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain support. In the fiscal year that ended March 2016, it posted revenue of $24.4 billion and net income of $444 million.
Offer was not available for comment but has a history with Bay Area tech companies. He started at Motorola Mobility in 2o02 and was general counsel while it was a Google company, and then transitioned to overseeing all device and tablet products at Lenovo after it purchased Motorola Mobility in 2014.
In January 2016, his title changed to senior vice president and general counsel of Lenovo Group Lts, and Offer became responsible for overseeing legal affairs for the company and its global subsidiaries, according to his LinkedIn bio.
He received his law degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is qualified as a lawyer in both the U.S. and U.K., according to the press release.
He joins a legal department that is known for its intense focus on legal operations. Hoak and another Flex alum, his former chief of staff Stephanie Corey, departed the company and this summer founded a legal operations company, UpLevel Ops, that aims to help in-house legal departments streamline their expenditures.
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