Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Corporate Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer, Ingredion
Search every verified Tanya De foras interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Tanya De Foras, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Corporate Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer at Ingredion, has discussed the qualities of a successful legal department. In a 2018 interview with Legalcommunity, she stated that the foundation is technical skills and delivering well on basics, but added that lawyers also need to be "both leaders and followers." She described the ideal relationship between a legal department and its business partners as "shoulder-to-shoulder," with no divide, and emphasized co-accountability, listening, understanding the business, and aligning legal priorities with strategic objectives to deliver high performance with integrity and manage risk. In a 2017 presentation on purposeful innovation, De Foras, then President of the Board of Whirlpool R&D Srl, described the company's focus on creating and managing innovative ecosystems to develop knowledge and technology. She said that applied innovation is part of Whirlpool's history, present, and future, and that the company's DNA involves purposeful innovation to improve user experience, from automatic washing machines to Internet of Things applications.
“It has to start with technical skills; it's all about delivering extraordinarily well on the basics every single day. You have to be good lawyers, there's no doubt about that, but then there's more—you need to be both leaders and followers.”
“You need to be shoulder-to-shoulder with your business partners, have no divide between the law department and their clients, but all be co-accountable partners for what you're trying to deliver.”
“This means listening to each other, understanding the business, and making sure that our legal priorities are perfectly aligned with the strategic objectives of the business so that we can deliver high performance with integrity and manage risks appropriately for the business.”
“At Whirlpool the next revolution is about the creation and management of innovative ecosystems to develop knowledge and technology in strategic areas.”
Tanya Martina Jaeger de Foras - President of the Board, Whirlpool R&D Srl.
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