Quartz has hired a general counsel

Quartz co-chief executive officers Kevin Delaney and Jay Lauf sent out the following announcement on Friday:

Hello Quartz –

We’re happy to announce that Ava Lubell is joining Quartz as general counsel and director of corporate operations, working in our NYC headquarters starting on Dec. 17.

In this role, Ava will be responsible for directing Quartz’s legal strategy and overseeing our legal, facilities, IT, and human resources functions.

Ava’s hire is a key step toward establishing standalone corporate operations for Quartz as part of our separation from Atlantic Media. She’ll report to Tomo and work closely with him in building out that staff and ensuring a smooth transition in areas such as benefits and IT. Her role—spanning legal to HR and corporate operations—is modeled after Aretae Wyler’s for Atlantic Media, and Ava comes to this role with the endorsement of Aretae.

Ava is very familiar with this terrain, currently serving as general manager and general counsel of Slate Magazine, overseeing all legal work and day-to-day operations of the business. Prior to Slate, Ava was special assistant to NY governor Andrew Cuomo, and political director for the Women & Politics Institute at American University. She is a graduate of NYU Law School and Brown University. You can follow her @AvaLubell and here in the Quartz app.

We’re really excited for Ava’s arrival, to have a dedicated general counsel for Quartz located in our headquarters, and to kick off this next chapter in the building of Quartz as a business.

Please join us in welcoming Ava.

Best,

Kevin and Jay