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Donovan Bell

Donovan Bell

Senior Director, Head of Global Legal Operations at Intel; CLOC board member; legal ops transformation leader with 20+ years in operational excellence across Fortune 500 companies.

Jun 11, 2026

9:50
I
9:51
heard our new leader, Perna Bawa, who's our head of chief legal and people, had made a statement that really stood out to me in terms of If people aren't asking questions of you, you know, then then you have to question your value.
10:10
Right.
10:10
And so are they coming to you? And then that's kind of the key thing.
10:13
So so, you know, getting pulled into, you know, product go to market conversations, you know, before a crisis, not after, you know, is is is really a key there, you know.
10:26
reusing instead of reinventing, right? So can you know, are there things that we already have established? But when I first came into the company, my focus was around this area of contracts.
10:39
And that was something that was really key.
14:24
So how should legal leaders think about whether initiatives are just adding maturity to the function or just yet another piece of tech?

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