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Italy 2016

Tanya Jaeger de Foras

vice president and chief legal officer EMEA | Whirlpool

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An in-house lawyer with extensive international, commercial and compliance experience, Tanya Jaeger de Foras serves as the vice president and chief legal officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa for...

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Tanya Jaeger de Foras joined Whirlpool, the multinational manufacturer of home appliances, in June 2015 as vice president and chief legal officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa, with the support of 52 people, and having amassed experience over several years in international roles at Pfizer and Luxottica. De Foras’ team provides full legal services across commercial, industrial and R&D activities in Whirlpool’s EMEA operation, overseeing an important strategic function vital to company health in the region. Strategy-wise, imperatives for the department are informed by de Foras’ close relationship with senior business partners, as she reports directly to the Whirlpool EMEA President as part of the regional executive staff. De Foras also has a strong functional dotted line to the global general counsel of Whirlpool and is a member of the global legal leaders’ staff. With a constant focus on business issues, the legal department plan and objectivise based on the wider business’ priorities, requiring a great deal of cooperation and communication defining measurable KPIs. De Foras states that her legal team must see itself as a business unit first and foremost, developing bespoke ways to measure achievement against targets, which it must hold itself accountable to. In addition to her leadership, de Foras boasts a strong record as part of a team on individual transactions. Whilst at Luxottica she helped preside over the global redesign of distribution model for the Ray-Ban eyewear brand and at Pfizer Italia she was responsible for restructuring and the integration of Wyeth into the Italian part of the business. Currently she is overseeing the massive task of the ongoing Whirlpool EMEA integration of the Indesit Company, whilst protecting business interests and advancing company growth strategy. A team-player, de Foras believes in nurturing young talent and actively engages in the mentoring and coaching of junior colleagues, peers and women in the profession. Further showing her strong ethical considerations, de Foras states that legal should always be looked as ‘leaders of organisations’ tying them closely to ethics and integrity and having a huge responsibility to ‘drive good governance’.

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