Minott

$3.7 billion medical equipment and supplies company Guidant recently announced that Bernard Kury, former partner with Dewey Ballantine, would become vice president and general counsel. Kury knows Guidant well: He served as lead counsel on its IPO in 1994, and was lead counsel on several of the company's acquisitions. He replaces Debra Minott, who has been named to the newly created position of corporate secretary and chief governance officer. Minott had previously served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Essex International, and prior to that spent over a decade at Eli Lilly.