Bio

Mariangela Sampaio graduated in the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP) and has been working for 30 years in the legal department of Unilever. In 2020, she assumed the position of global category counsel, homecare division in Unilever’s global legal department. In 2022, she assumed the position of general counsel for the ice cream category for Latin America and, since March 2023, has been the business unit general counsel, homecare Americas of Unilever, being the legal director responsible for the area of the home care business for North America and Latin America with brands such as OMO, Comfort, Brilhante, CIF, Seventh Generation, among others.

She was co-coordinator of ABPI’s (Brazilian Intellectual Property Association) Trademark Commission, as well as a member of ABPI’s board of directors. She was president of the legal committee of the ABA (Brazilian Association of Advertisers) in the 2018/2019 period. She is currently president of the second Chamber of Conar (Brazilian Self Advertising Organisation) and ABA’s representative in the Superior Council of Conar.