Enterprise Community Partners announced the hire of Angelique Kelly-Lara as chief people officer and the promotion of senior vice president Stephanie Shack to the newly created position of chief legal officer. As senior leaders at the organization, Kelly-Lara will be responsible for all human resource services, including acquisition strategies that attract top, diverse talent, career development and the HR business partner team, and Shack will oversee legal operations across Enterprise’s entities nationwide.
Kelly-Lara joins Enterprise with more than 25 years of experience directing Human Resources (HR) teams at some of the world’s largest corporations. Most recently, she was vice president of global talent acquisition at Choice Hotels International. From 2005 to 2014 at McDonald’s USA, she worked her way up to director of U.S. HR and employee relations. Earlier in her career, she held similar positions at Aramark Corporation and Bankers Life and Casualty Company. In 2019, DCA Live recognized Kelly-Lara as one of its HR Leaders of the Year. She has also served on the boards of Ronald McDonald House and the Center for New Horizons. Kelly-Lara holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and an MBA in human resource management from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Shack’s appointment to chief legal officer follows Enterprise’s recent decision to combine the legal departments of Enterprise Community Investment and Enterprise Community Partners into one. Shack joined Enterprise in 2017 as senior vice president and general counsel for ECI, prior to which she was senior vice president, associate general counsel and assistant secretary with Corporate Office Properties Trust, a publicly traded real estate investment trust. Previously, she held positions at the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, the global law firm DLA Piper and the office of U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. Dougherty. Stephanie graduated with honors from Washington University in St. Louis and received her J.D. with distinction from Emory University School of Law.
