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Maria Pernas

Executive vice president and group general counsel | Capgemini

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Innovative French professional services firm Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation with annual revenues of around €13bn and 200,000 employees worldwide. Executive vice-president and group general counsel Maria Pernas heads the group legal function of almost 200 professionals, advising the Capgemini senior leadership team on the legal strategies and evolving legal challenges whilst supporting its business strategy and managing the corporate and regional legal teams.

Despite only joining the firm in July 2017, she has already been commended for proactively contributing to the organisation’s continuous growth and competitiveness. She has already overseen a number of transactions in 2018 such as the follow up of the multi-year IT strategic provider agreement with McDonald’s to develop, deploy and maintain McDonald’s digital tech, the contract with Hydro-One or the agreement with The Norwegian Pharmacy Association concerning the development of a new system for digital communication between pharmacies and the public health services. Furthermore she has launched, along with the members of her executive legal board, the LEAD Legal Program which ‘targets at positioning Capgemini legal as a strategic accelerator of our group’s business ambition.

The technology and digital industry evolves very fast and the legal department must support our day-to-day operations in a proactive manner but it also needs to anticipate and be ahead of these market changes putting a major focus on innovation. This is reflected in the LEAD Legal Leadership Pyramid, which is composed of three different levels: (i) day-to-day operations, (ii) innovation and strategy and (iii) people’. Before Capgemini, Pernas spent 18 years at leading providers such as Sema Group, Schlumberger and Atos. Holding various senior and high profile roles, she left Atos as senior vice-president, group general counsel operations, having worked on a number of landmark projects and implemented a number of diversity related initiatives in the legal department.

When discussing some of her career highlights, Pernas identifies being offered, at the age of just 26, to join the company Sema Group as general counsel for Spain, Portugal and South America and general counsel for the Major Events and Entertainment business unit with worldwide responsibilities. Pernas began her professional career as an external legal advisor for PwC between 1995 and 1998.

 

 

 

 

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