General counsel, Mexico and the Caribbean | Unilever
Ángel de León Zamora
General counsel, Mexico and the Caribbean | Unilever
Ángel de León Zamora’s current role as general counsel for the Mexico and Caribbean region represents a culmination of over 20 years of hands-on professional experience of providing high quality legal advice on matters related to consumer products. Prior to joining Unilever in March 2015, de León Zamora spent most of his career in various roles across several countries at another multinational consumer goods giant, Procter & Gamble. In his most recent assignment there, which lasted six months, de León Zamora led a capability project on regional opportunities to maintain the efficiency and productivity of the Latin America legal department. While working as associate general counsel at P&G in Cincinnati, de León Zamora distinguished himself with his work on developing systems to enable the business with high quality legal counsel for global product initiatives, as well as leading an in-house counsel team working on monitoring and making improvements on advertising. Other notable achievements for de León Zamora at P&G include his leadership efforts to establish the Mexican self-regulatory organisation CONAR and his work on the divestiture of the Royale paper business.