Singapore, June 30, 2009: Kendle, a leading, global full-service clinical research organization, announced the appointment of Jarrod Pontius to the position of Chief Legal Officer. In this role, Pontius will provide global leadership for all legal services, corporate governance and general corporate legal matters for Kendle.

 

Pontius will be based in Kendle's global headquarters in Cincinnati and will report to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Candace Kendle. He will serve on the company's Executive Committee.

 

Pontius brings more than a decade of experience in both the legal and corporate legal environments to Kendle. He has a demonstrated track record of success in the areas of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, public company reporting and securities compliance, corporate financing activities and corporate governance.

 

He rejoined Kendle, from General Cable Corporation, a Fortune 500 publicly traded supplier of wire and cable products, where he had served as Assistant General Counsel since 2007. Previously Pontius was Corporate Counsel and Senior Corporate Counsel from 2002 through 2007 for Kendle. His experience also includes serving as an Associate in the business/corporate department of the Cincinnati law firm Frost Brown Todd LLC.

 

Pontius is a member of both the Cincinnati and Ohio Bar Associations and the Association of Corporate Counsel and is a graduate of the Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers. He received his Juris Doctorate from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and holds a Bachelor of Science in finance from Indiana University.