About

Serving as the legal and compliance manager for Mercedes-Benz Hungária for the last ten years Dr. Zsuzsanna Lippai has gained much respect from peers in the industry. Among her key responsibilities Lippai provides support to all departments and matters encompassing data protection, intellectual property, anti-trust, compliance and integrity management and internal trainings. In her current position she participated on elaborating and implementing the electronic contract approval and archiving process thereby ensuring the transparent approval chain: ‘My first major project was the implementation of the compliance system, thus I gained thorough overview on the business processes. As a result I can provide legal advice as a business enabler to my colleagues with a deeper understanding of the business priorities and environment’. In 2013 Daimler became 100% owner of the Hungarian entity. Lippai supported the M&A on a local level and subsequently implemented all the relevant new legal and compliance processes to harmonise operations with the parent company. The legal supervision and support of the contractual relationship with the authorised sales and aftersales partners is an ongoing task for Lippai in matters involving CRM systems and vehicle connectivity services. Lippai has also proved herself to be a key element of the strong business legal relationship which has formed over the years, explaining: ‘I managed to build a trustful relationship on the local and the headquarter level as well. Management and their colleagues consider me a reliable and proactive professional, who focuses on building the business and demonstrates a service attitude towards internal customers’. Lippai previously worked as head of the legal department at Frieslandfoods Hungária Kft, where she internally and externally coordinated legal teams in three countries, whilst harmonising workflows and representing the legal team in front of the international board of top management.