Surgalign Holdings, Inc. announced the appointment of Paolo Amoruso as its new General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, effective August 1, 2022. He previously served as Interim General Counsel of Surgalign, having joined the Company in April 2022. Mr. Amoruso brings to Surgalign approximately 25 years of experience serving public companies in various legal, financial and executive roles.

He began his career with Shell Oil Company as a Tax Attorney, served as Assistant General Counsel to the International Division of Devon Energy Corporation, and later served as Vice President of Legal and Commercial Affairs and Corporate Secretary of Hyperdynamics Corporation. In 2016, he joined McGowen & Fowler PLLC, a boutique energy law firm specializing in corporate transactional matters, litigation and mergers and acquisitions for small- to medium-sized public companies. While with McGowen & Fowler, he was brought in by the Board of Attis Oil and Gas (a UK-AIM listed company) to serve as General Counsel and Executive Chairman of the Board, where he led the restructuring and the subsequent reverse merger with Helium One Global Ltd. Mr. Amoruso holds a Juris Doctorate, Master of Business Administration, and Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Houston and a Master in Tax Law from the NYU School of Law.