Tanya Martina Jaeger de Foras - Purposeful Innovation
About Tanya De foras
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.