Allied Universal® announced that Loretta Cecil will join the organisation as global general counsel, effective June 17, 2024. In this role, Cecil will serve as the company’s chief legal officer, providing strategic legal guidance and overseeing the company’s global legal function. She will report directly to Steve Jones, global chairman and CEO at Allied Universal.
Cecil has over 40 years’ experience as an executive and legal professional, most recently as executive vice president and general counsel for Change Healthcare Inc., one of the world’s largest healthcare IT companies. In that role, she led all legal and compliance support for Change Healthcare’s successful initial public offering in June 2019. Change Healthcare was acquired in October 2022 by UnitedHealth Group in a $13-billion transaction.