Siemens has appointed Vodafone legal director Claire Carless as general counsel and secretary for the UK. She assumes this role from Gerard Gent, who has retired after a 16-year stint with the electronic and engineering giant.

Carless has served at Vodafone, a British multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, for the past ten years. Prior to that, she held the role of legal manager at National Power for eight years. She also spent time in private practice with law firm Stephenson Harwood in London and Hong Kong.