About

Alice Grünfeld is head of legal at BEC, one of three independent IT services providers in the Danish financial sector. She joined BEC in 2007 and established the legal department for the company, four years later she was still managing the department but was also made responsible for all supplier management. ‘Coming to nothing and building everything from ground zero’ is one of Grünfeld’s biggest achievements. She has a highly influential role in the organisation, dealing with the CEO and down throughout the entire organisation ‘in a way that all [their] activities are legally well founded. I am involved in numerous activities on an operational, tactical and strategic level. There are very few material activities that I am not involved in’. Because of this, Grünfeld is close to the sales team and participates in all negotiations with customers and suppliers. Her team currently handles supplier management in accordance to procedures and templates that she has developed and put in place on behalf of BEC. People that have interacted with Grünfeld on a professional level describe her as ‘easy to work with, and [someone who] considers the need for speed with reason’. Moving to an in-house role meant that Grünfeld had had to expand her field of work from her specialised IT-law to incorporate all the legal needs of BEC, ranging from corporate to employment. ‘I take commercial considerations and understand the sector I work in, including the more political aspects’. She finds her work fulfilling and says ‘I love my work and wake up happy every day. I am quite passionate about it’.