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Central America 2018

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Jose David Zuniga

General counsel | Cuestamoras Salud

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Jose David Zuniga joined Cuestamoras Salud, a leading provider in comprehensive solutions for personal care, in November 2015. Zuniga started his career as a paralegal in a small boutique firm in 1991. When he transitioned from private practice to in-house, over 16 years ago, he was presented with a series of ongoing challenges. ‘How I overcame those challenges and how I delivered results defined my career. Doing the right thing and focusing on being surrounded by extremely talented people, provided me with a sense of purpose which was key for my success’, explains Zuniga. He has gained a large amount of experience in building highly effective teams from the ground up and had to deal with challenges in the agribusiness, retail, pharmaceutical and distribution industries. To do so as a leader, Zuniga explains he had to: ‘focus on what really matters – people – and develop relationships of trust with my peers. Everything evolves and functions around people’. He has adopted a three step mandate which entails the message of: every leader has to deliver results, develop people, and do the foregoing with integrity. He has used this to develop the building blocks of the function and teach the business what it means to have a legal advisor within the organisation who participates in the executive committee. Most importantly he has developed his team to ensure they have a set of skills and competencies to climb the career ladder, enabling them to assume a new role within the company and communicate effectively with their business partners. He was recently involved in the acquisition by Cuestamoras Salud of a new chain of pharmacy outlets called “La Bomba”. Once approved he had the responsibility of duplicating the size of the operation by leading the project to open 21 new stores around the country in three months. ‘Doing good by providing people with accessible medicine, health services or otherwise enhance their quality of life, are drivers to do my job better every day. If my team delivers, Cuestamoras Salud enables its business partners to perform and positively impact the most people we can’, says Zuniga. Prior to this role he served as the lead of legal patents and compliance at Bayer Central America and the Caribbean.

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