About Adam G
Adam G Ciongoli built a career that moves between public service and corporate legal leadership. He studied history at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Those classroom years set the stage for work inside government and in the boardroom.
Early in his career he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1995. He joined private practice as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in 1996. By the end of the decade he had stepped into Capitol Hill, serving as Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 1999. He moved into the Department of Justice in 2001 as Counselor to the Lawyer General.
He later took senior in-house roles at major media and financial companies. In 2003 he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Europe at Time Warner. He appears on the record as a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Court of the United States in 2006. In 2007 he became Group General Counsel and Secretary at Willis Towers Watson. He was named Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Lincoln Financial Group in 2012. In 2015 he joined Campbell Soup Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility and Governance Officer, and General Counsel.
Those positions reflect steady movement into enterprise-level legal management. Over the years Ciongoli has handled corporate governance, compliance and legal oversight for multinational and publicly traded companies. His roles have combined traditional general counsel duties with responsibility for regulatory interaction and board reporting. He has worked across industries including media, insurance and consumer packaged goods.
He is admitted to practice in New York. His educational background in history and law underpins a practice that spans statutory and regulatory matters as well as internal governance processes. He is known for moving between government and corporate circles and for bringing that perspective into in-house legal teams.
As of the latest available information he serves in senior legal and governance roles at Campbell Soup Company and handles the company’s legal, governance, sustainability and corporate responsibility matters.
