After brief stops at StubHub and Amazon, attorney Stephanie Burns is coming to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. as senior vice president and general counsel. Sony’s PlayStation unit announced the hire last week, saying Burns will head Sony’s global legal team, overseeing legal, intellectual property, and business affairs for PlayStation-affiliated brands and companies.
“The next GC has a big job ahead of them and I want to be as helpful as possible,” outgoing Chief Legal Officer at Sony, Riley Russell said in a July LinkedIn post announcing his departure. “After that, I will be taking my 30+ years of experience and expertise and hopefully put it to good use in my next endeavor.”
Russell has been with Sony Entertainment since 1994, serving for 22 years as general counsel and senior vice president for legal and business affairs and becoming a chief legal officer in 2016. The announcement of his resignation came as the company is defending against two class-action lawsuits over alleged monopolistic pricing in the PlayStation Store.
Stephanie Burns was not immediately available to discuss her move since taking the job. She was most recently a vice president and associate general counsel at Amazon, which she rejoined last May after a little over a year at StubHub. Before StubHub, Burns spent nearly 15 years at Amazon and had previously led a group of lawyers and legal professionals as vice president and associate general counsel. Before her time at Amazon, Burns worked at a handful of software companies and law firms, including Merant, Chrome Systems, Davis Wright Tremaine, and The Gary Law Group, according to her LinkedIn profile.
(All information was provided by Reuters)
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