James Turoff serves as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for The Hershey Company and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team. In this role, Turoff has responsibility for all legal department activities and strategies, including corporate governance, litigation, labor and employment, intellectual property, and enterprise risk management, as well as ethics and compliance, government relations, privacy, sustainability and security. Turoff joined Hershey in March 2014 and has held multiple positions within the Legal Department during his tenure. Most recently, he served as Acting General Counsel. From March 2019 through December 2020, he served as Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, where he had oversight responsibility for multiple commercial and corporate functions within the Legal Department, including U.S. Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions, SEC/Corporate Governance and Labor & Employment. From March 2018 through February 2019, Turoff was the Vice President, SEC, Corporate Governance & Compliance and helped oversee all commercial and corporate Legal functions globally while Hershey searched for and transitioned to a new general counsel. Prior to that, he served as Associate General Counsel, Securities & Governance and Business Transformation and as Associate General Counsel, AEMEA and Securities & Governance. Prior to Hershey, Turoff was the Assistant General Counsel, Corporate and Securities at Harsco Corporation. Prior to joining Harsco, Turoff served as the Director, Corporate Governance and Securities and Assistant Secretary at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company in Marysville, Ohio. Turoff began his legal career with the law firm of Jones Day.

Turoff holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Ashland University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He and his family reside in Mechanicsburg, Pa

Veta T. Richardson is the president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). Headquartered in Washington, DC, ACC is the world's largest legal association dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of in-house counsel. With an international membership of more than 45,000 in-house lawyers at more than 10,000 organizations in 85 countries, ACC serves as the "voice of the in-house bar" for corporate lawyers at 98 percent of the Fortune 100 and 51 percent of the Global 1000.

With more than 60 chapter operations around the world, Richardson's top priorities as CEO involve continuing to increase ACC's global footprint and charting the organization through a strategic plan and vision designed to strengthen its position as the global voice for in-house counsel. Members look to ACC to advocate in support of their rights and interests as in-house counsel, as well as to offer the practice resources, education, global legal and regulatory analysis, and networking opportunities needed to advance their professional development.