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PepsiCo adds senior legal director
Leila Golchin has been hired as the new senior legal director for PepsiCo in Asia Pacific, meaning that three out of five senior lawyers in the business’ APAC region are Australian females.
Jerome Doraisamy
Reflecting on her appointment, Leila Golchin (pictured) said that working for a global organisation like PepsiCo means being able to work with “incredible brands that have a worldwide presence”, but that what makes it a great company is the local presence of the organisation.
Lili Dent, who serves as general counsel and senior legal director in Australia and New Zealand – and who has led PepsiCo to winning the FMCG Team of the Year at the Corporate Counsel Awards, and who herself has been a finalist for GC of the Year at the Women in Law Awards – praised the collaborative efforts of her team.
“The talented lawyers that have come into the team have seized every opportunity they could to develop and challenge themselves, which has resulted in exceptional growth that has been recognised both locally and overseas,” she said.
“I strongly believe that our organisation’s commitment to diversity and inclusion plays a large part in the success of our team.”
Speaking about the fact that Australian females now make up the majority of senior lawyers in the business’ law department in the APAC region, Ms Dent proclaimed: “While we foster and support female talent, through female focussed development programs and work flexibility, the female candidates we've hired in recent years were truly the best candidates for the role regardless of gender.”
Jerome Doraisamy
Jerome Doraisamy is the editor of Lawyers Weekly. A former lawyer, he has worked at Momentum Media as a journalist on Lawyers Weekly since February 2018, and has served as editor since March 2022. He is also the host of all five shows under The Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network, and has overseen the brand's audio medium growth from 4,000 downloads per month to over 60,000 downloads per month, making The Lawyers Weekly Show the most popular industry-specific podcast in Australia. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of Minds Count.
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