Foss Hires VP, General Counsel & Chief Ethics Officer

Foss Maritime announced that Lam Q. Nguyen-Bull has joined the company as the Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer.

 

Based in Seattle, Nguyen-Bull will lead Foss's Legal and Risk Management Group, where in addition to providing counsel on legal issues and business strategies and practices, she will head up the company's ethics and compliance programs and work to safeguard the values and reputation of Foss.   

 

Nguyen-Bull came to Foss from parent company Saltchuk, where she served as Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer. Prior to joining the Saltchuk family of companies, Lam was Senior Corporate Counsel at Univar Inc., where she managed the company's global litigation portfolio. Before going in-house, she clerked for the Honorable John C. Coughenour, and was a private practice litigator at Garvey Schubert Barer. 

 

Nguyen-Bull graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude and from Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Technology Journal. She serves on the board of PeaceTrees Vietnam, a humanitarian organization working in central Vietnam and co-chaired the Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee for 2015. Nguyen-Bull is the former President of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington and is a current board member of the Asian Bar Association of Washington.