Uber Brings Back Ex-Kickstarter Legal Chief to Head Road Safety

Uber Technologies Inc. has brought back one of its first in-house lawyers, Nicole Benincasa, to head its road safety portfolio.

Benincasa previously spent more than seven years at Uber, most recently as senior counsel for global safety, until leaving the company in May 2020 to become general counsel for Kickstarter PBC. She spent six months at the crowdfunding platform, which hired a new legal chief last year.

Uber spokeswoman Carissa Simons confirmed Benincasa’s hire. After leaving Kickstarter in late 2020, she joined Artsy Inc. as an associate general counsel. Benincasa left that company, a New York-based online art brokerage, ...