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Effie D. Silva is an experienced, public company leader who has a stellar track advising board of directors and senior management on a broad range of issues, including transactional, litigation, corporate governance, compliance and diversity and inclusion matters. She currently serves as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of Fresh Del Monte Produce, where she leads the company’s legal, risk management, compliance, food safety, government affairs and corporate reporting functions.

Effie joined Fresh Del Monte Produce after a successful tenure as the ethics and compliance leader for Cargill, a private global food and agriculture company. As the most senior compliance officer at Cargill’s protein and salt division, she advised the board of directors on major compliance matters and led a team that was responsible for identifying and mitigating risks and developing business-sensitive solutions to complex problems. Prior to joining Cargill, Effie was a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Tyson Foods, responsible for all legal matters impacting Tyson’s prepared foods business unit and the enterprise-wide sustainability department.

In addition to her in-house experience at Fresh Del Monte Produce, Cargill and Tyson Foods, Ms. Silva brings 20 years of complex business law practice at prominent global law firms. She served as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery and Duane Morris, and as a senior attorney at Baker & McKenzie, where she regularly advised corporate leaders and boards of directors of multinational companies on corporate governance, regulatory compliance and investigations, M&A, complex business litigation and international arbitration matters.

Effie is bilingual, and has global experience across LATAM, APAC, and EMEA. She is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of International Arbitration and a qualified arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, Conflict Prevention Resolution, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. She is also board certified in international litigation and arbitration with the Florida Bar and has extensive cross-border experience advising and strategizing multi-jurisdictional disputes across venues, both nationally and internationally.