About

Award-winning legal counsel Milagros Gómez Sánchez Cannani became Kimberly Clark’s legal and corporate affairs director for the Andean region (Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela) in 2015. Providing legal and corporate affairs counselling with a strategic vision, as well as direct and permanent support to the whole company, Gómez is said to have decisively contributed to the achievement of key financial objectives and to strengthening of the compliance culture of the organisation across the Andean region. ‘Due to my leadership I have had a very fruitful interaction with the business, its leaders and other functional areas even in complex and challenging situations’, Gómez says. ‘I was able to align the Andean and local legal department´s goals with the goals of the business which allowed the Andean legal department to be recognised by the business as an area that generates value’. In recognition of her provision of consistently strong legal advice and development of a compliance culture within the business, Gómez has recently received a number of professional accolades, including first place in the “Compliance & Corporate Good Practices Specialization” at Universidad del Pacífico in 2017 and “Kultura de Performance Kimberly-Clark” award due to the successful legal advice and leadership on two commercial projects in 2016. Gómez’s previous legal career include five-year tenures at Yanbal International and Mondelēz International, and an eight-year stint in private practice at Estudio Grau Abogados. After the research deadline of this publication, Gomez started working as Peru legal manager for Back Backus AB Inbev