Dear Doug,
If you must take a token "chosen one" from the old US team, I hereby suggest that you take Liz Lanier our VP Legal and General Council. I've never met her or seen her except for her little 20 second speech on the corportate ethics video. She seemed legitimate and nice enough! To be honest, I have never heard anything about her....in this company that is a good thing!
Really, why choose such a controversial figure when you know the selection is going to cause much tension when there are still some relative unknowns on the US Exec side who seem to be doing their jobs?