Maria Varsellona has been appointed as general counsel at Nokia Siemens Networks, effective July 1, 2013. Varsellona will report to CEO, Rajeev Suri, and join the company’s executive board. She will be based in Munich, Germany.
Varsellona joins Nokia Siemens Networks from Tetra Pak, an 11 billion euro revenue company, where she was General Counsel overseeing global legal operations. In this role, she was responsible for general legal support to the business, including setting and executing the intellectual property strategy, corporate governance and risk management. Before that, Varsellona was Senior Counsel, Commercial Operations at General Electric (GE) Oil & Gas and previously held a number of other senior positions at GE. She has also served as Senior Counsel, Europe, at Hertz, the world’s largest car rental company. Varsellona has experience working for law firms in the UK and Italy.
“I am extremely pleased to announce Maria as our general counsel. She has extensive experience in global legal roles for multinational companies, including building and leading international teams of lawyers,” said Suri. “She has the depth required to address legal requirements across our company, from customer-focused deal making to enhancing our corporate governance systems and enforcing our strict compliance policies throughout the organization.”
Varsellona holds a law degree from the University of Palermo (Italy) and has obtained admission to practice as an avvocato in Italy, and as a solicitor in England and Wales. As an adjunct professor, she lectured on international contract drafting and negotiation at the Law Faculty of the University of Florence (Italy) and the European Commission selected her as an expert stakeholder in the Common Frame of Reference project for the harmonization of European contract law.
Gerwin Zott will continue in his role as acting general counsel until Varsellona joins Nokia Siemens Networks.
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With headquarters in Espoo, Finland, we operate in over 120 countries and had net sales of approximately 13.4 billion euros in 2012. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com
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