Elementia is a Mexican manufacturer of construction materials with an international presence. As Elementia’s legal manager, Selene Jasso González has 65 people under her responsibility across the American continent stretching from the US to Bolivia. Part of her success in this role has been the way in which she has automatized and simplified the company’s internal legal processes with the help of legal software and clear procedures to be more efficient and to control and manage all corporate affairs. Jasso is known for being a builder of an effective team, an essential trait in all counsels leading large legal departments.

As a leader she has the ability to create and maintain a dynamic and creative work environment with clear objectives and results orientated goals for her team. Among her many in-house achievements, Jasso has participated led on the global offering of US$425m senior unsecured notes in November 2014. The following year Jasso was the lead lawyer on Elementia’s global IPO worth US$3.9bn and then a club deal financing for Mex$3.29bn. In 2016 she coordinated and negotiated the operations and transactions related to Elementia’s Greenfield expansion in Tula facilitating all agreements and environmental regulations to comply with local and federal transactions.

In the same year she participated in the acquisition of a 53% stake in US company Giant Cement Holding as part of Elementia’s expansion into the US cement sector. Most recently Jasso has been responsible for creating the compliance legal area that monitors the regulations, internal policies and procedures. To date she has implemented policies for corporate governance, personal data protection, ant-bribery and antitrust.