About

Carlos Calderón started his career at Lizarazu, Sossa and Peña, a boutique consumer goods and antitrust law firm, and was subsequently seconded to AbbVie, where he began specialising in healthcare and biopharmaceutical industries within the Andean region. He then took his experience in the pharmaceutical industry to Sanofi where he enhanced his knowledge in other relevant markets within the industry like vaccines, generics and over-the-counter (OTC) products. After this start to his in-house career, Calderón moved to Siemens Healthineers in November 2016 as head of legal and compliance for the Andean zone covering the company’s operations in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana. He came in to set up two new departments and advance the market and regulatory dynamics and development of new business models within the firm that focus on finding efficient solutions. He supervised the incorporation of a new company into Siemens, and worked on changing its corporate culture towards the legal function while at the same time being seen as a business partner. He says that this has been a challenge and that the firm is still ‘under construction’ but the business is coming round to understanding the role that lawyers play in this highly regulated industry. Calderón continues to oversee the expansion of the company across the region and its increasing rise in the Andean pharmaceutical market. Calderón says that ‘being an in-house lawyer has been an incredible experience, a constant learning and multidisciplinary work that takes you every day to new challenges. It is possible to make the difference even when you are the youngest within a management team’.