THE COMPASS · WHAT THE INDEX HOLDS

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Adam Frankel

General Counsel, NWN

Best Idea Wins

Adam Frankel built NWN's first in-house legal department in 2019. Three acquisitions later he has stopped believing in the one thing every acquirer wants, and he is unusually direct about why.

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Stories

Leaders To Watch

Veronica Rodriguez, in her own words

Veronica Rodriguez is Co-General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at TelevisaUnivision, where she is building a legal organization that help…

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Leaders To Watch

Sofia Almeida, in her own words

Sofia Almeida is General Counsel and EVP of Zurich Seguros Ecuador and President of the Cámara Ecuatoriano Suiza, preparing for broader exe…

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Cover Stories · Chief Marketing Officer

Marketers Wanna Market. Let ’Em.

Roy Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer at Vedder and past International President of the Legal Marketing Association, on why legal marketing i…

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In Conversation · Former Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

There Is No Such Thing as a Legal Issue

Luis Machado spent nearly forty years arguing that the category itself does the damage. He thinks the profession is finally coming around.

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Leaders To Watch

Marcela Denniston, in her own words

Marcela Denniston started in military cyber operations, built and sold her own cybersecurity company, and now runs NVIDIA’s cyber defense o…

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Leaders To Watch

Luis Alberto Cárdenas Díaz, in his own words

Luis Alberto Cárdenas Díaz built the legal function at Banco Sabadell México almost from the ground up, through constant regulatory change…

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Leaders

TopBuild Corp.

Luis F. Machado

Former Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary · TopBuild Corp.

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Vedder

Roy Sexton

Chief Marketing Officer · Vedder

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TelevisaUnivision

Veronica Rodriguez

Executive Vice President, Co-General Counsel and Corporate Secretary; Global Government Affairs Officer · TelevisaUnivision

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NVIDIA

Marcela Denniston

Senior Director, Head of Cyber Defense Operations and Engineering · NVIDIA

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Sportradar

Daniel Lobo Guerrero

VP, Global Head of Licensing, Regulatory Compliance and Government Affairs, Sportradar · Sportradar

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Zurich Seguros Ecuador

Sofia Almeida

General Counsel and EVP, Zurich Seguros Ecuador; President, Cámara Ecuatoriano Suiza · Zurich Seguros Ecuador

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Pursuits & Industries

Pursuit

Operator Mindset

Lawyers and executives who think first like operators and second like specialists.

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Pursuit

Pipeline & Elevation

Leaders building paths up — sponsorship, mentorship, and structural elevation of the next cohort.

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Pursuit

AI Governance

Building the legal and ethical framework for AI deployment inside the enterprise.

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Compliance Engineering

Building compliance programs as systems — not policies — that scale with the business.

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Talent Architecture

How people, culture, and total-rewards leaders design organizations that retain top performers.

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Pursuit

Founder-Adjacent Legal

GCs and CLOs operating inside founder-led companies — the legal counterweight to founder velocity.

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Pursuit

Frontier Technology

Legal leadership for robotics, biotech, quantum, and other regulation-outpacing technologies.

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Pursuit

Public Markets Discipline

Disclosure architecture, investor relations, and the legal craft of public-company governance.

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