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Known as a ‘fantastic lawyer’ with ‘extensive industry expertise’, Mariana Fiordilino is well-placed to lead the legal and compliance functions for the Argentinean arm of Danish multinational pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, where she has worked since 2012. Cited by nominators as being a ‘results driven legal executive’, Fiordilino is in possession of ‘a strong combination of legal, compliance and business competencies, as well as in-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical industry’. In recent times, Fiordilino has been tackling Argentina’s high inflation and a local regulatory and legal environment that has been ‘really changing for the last years, so keeping up to date and rolling out training to the company employees is a key action to be in line with the requirements’. In order to deal with this tough environment, Fiordilino is keen to emphasise the utility of cross-department collaboration. She describes her ‘excellent, open and honest’ relationship with the vice president and general manager of the company along with the board of directors, and suggests that the ‘role is not easy to perform if you do not develop good relations with each area´s key stakeholders’. Having to reorganise the legal function, which was previously overseen by the finance director, Fiordilino changed the legal and compliance department to report directly to the vice president and general manager of the company. Praised by one source for working on compliance and legal issues ‘with amazing depth and dedication’, she actively participates in both the Legal and the Compliance Committee at the multinational company’s pharmaceutical chamber (CAEMe), receiving a special recognition for her contribution to the Committee in 2016.