NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Volt Information Sciences, Inc. (NYSE-MKT: VISI) announced today that it has appointed Nancy Avedissian as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Volt Information Sciences, Inc. Ms. Avedissian reports to Michael Dean, Volt’s Chief Executive Officer.
“We are excited to have counsel of Nancy’s caliber join Volt as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary,” said Mr. Dean. “Nancy is highly regarded for her expertise in leading organizations through complex legal matters and partnering closely with business leaders in support of corporate goals. Her breadth of experience will bring a valuable, balanced legal and business-savvy approach to Volt, which will support our strategic growth in the years to come.”
Ms. Avedissian commented, "I am thrilled to join the Volt family and honored to partner with Michael Dean, the Board of Directors, the management team and my fellow employees - both in the legal department and throughout the organization - to assess, manage and mitigate legal risk while continuing to deliver on Volt's business strategies."
Prior to joining Volt, Ms. Avedissian served as General Counsel and Vice President, Legal Affairs at Worldwide Clinical Trials, where she served as the chief legal advisor to a leading contract research organization, which provides outsourced services to the pharmaceutical industry. Ms. Avedissian led an international legal team and focused on corporate law & governance, commercial transactions, corporate & regulatory compliance, policymaking, and providing counsel to the company’s senior management team and Board of Directors. Prior to Worldwide Clinical Trials, Ms. Avedissian practiced for ten years as a corporate transactional attorney at the international law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, where she primarily concentrated in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, securities and corporate finance, advising the firm’s private and public company clients across multiple industries.
Ms. Avedissian received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine, and her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she served as Executive Editor of the Loyola Law Review. She is a member of the California bar and a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
About Volt Information Sciences, Inc.
Volt Information Sciences, Inc. is a global provider of staffing services (traditional time and materials-based as well as project-based), managed service programs, technology outsourcing services and information technology infrastructure services. Our staffing services consist of workforce solutions that include providing contingent workers, personnel recruitment services, and managed services programs supporting primarily professional administration, technical, information technology, light-industrial and engineering positions. Our managed service programs consist of managing the procurement and on-boarding of contingent workers from multiple providers. Our technology outsourcing services provide pre and post production development, testing and customer support to companies in the mobile, gaming, and technology devices industries. In addition, we provide information technology infrastructure services which provide server, storage, network and desktop IT hardware maintenance, data center and network monitoring and operations. Our complementary businesses offer customized talent, technology and consulting solutions to a diverse client base. Volt services global industries including aerospace, automotive, banking and finance, consumer electronics, information technology, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, software, telecommunications, transportation, and utilities. For more information, visit www.volt.com. For more information on VMC, visit www.vmc.com.
