About

Fernando Victoria Peña is a Colombian lawyer from the Rosario University with specialisations in corporate and commercial law, and a Master’s degree in business and corporate law from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Victoria Peña is currently legal and compliance director of Teleperformance for the Andean Region, covering Teleperformance Colombia, Teledatos Zona Franca, and Teleperformance Peru, and has more than 10 years of experience in the business sector as general counsel, in private practise, and as a general legal counsel in the Consortium of Private National Channels (RCN TV and Caracol TV). Today, he is a member of the board of directors of Teleperformance Colombia and Peru, legal representative, and member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Victoria Peña was selected for the 2016 Colombia GC Powerlist and has participated as a speaker in many national and international events related to privacy, compliance and business. He has been a key component in Teleperformance’s expansion of new subsidiaries across Latin America, and in the negotiation of regional and global contracts with global suppliers to the value of more than US$100m, and with global clients worth more than US$600m. Additionally, he has implemented new strategies with clients to consolidate strategic partnerships and created legal committees on privacy and contract matters to boost transparency within the firms. On his leadership and strategic vision for the legal team, Victoria Peña says that he ‘re-structured the legal and compliance department implementing new vanguard processes that ensure the legal security of the company’. Adding, ‘These processes have served as a model for other areas of the company, for the traceability of their own processes. Additionally, I have concentrated on converting myself into a leader for my team and the company, [ensuring] as a priority that the members of my team are happy employees, and having fun in their work’.