About

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Effie D. Silva is an experienced public company leader with a stellar track record advising Boards of Directors and senior management on a broad range of issues, including transactional, litigation, corporate governance, compliance, and DEI matters. Effie currently serves as the senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary, and chief ethics and compliance officer of Fresh Del Monte Produce, (NYSE: FDP), a $4.5bn food company. In this role, Effie leads the company’s legal, risk management, trade compliance, food safety, government affairs, and corporate reporting functions.  
 
Effie joined Fresh Del Monte Produce after a successful tenure as the ethics and compliance leader for Cargill, a $165bn private global food and agriculture company. As the most senior compliance officer at Cargill’s $50bn Protein and Salt division, she advised the Board of Directors on major compliance matters and led a team that was responsible for identifying and mitigating risks, as well as developing business-sensitive solutions to complex problems. Prior to joining Cargill, Effie was a vice president and associate general counsel at Tyson Foods, (NYSE: TSN), a $40bn public food company. In this role, she was responsible for all legal matters impacting Tyson’s $10bn Prepared Foods business unit and the enterprise-wide Sustainability department.  
 
In addition to her in-house experience at Fresh Del Monte Produce, Cargill, and Tyson Foods, Effie brings over 20 years of complex business law practice at prominent global law firms. She served as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery and Duane Morris, and as a senior attorney at Baker & McKenzie, where she regularly advised corporate leaders and Boards of Directors of multinational companies on corporate governance, regulatory compliance and investigations, M&A, complex business litigation, and international arbitration matters.  
 
Effie is bilingual and has global experience across LATAM, APAC, and EMEA. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of International Arbitration (FCIArb) and a Qualified Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA), Conflict Prevention Resolution (CPR), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She is also Board Certified in International Litigation and Arbitration with the Florida Bar and has extensive cross-border experience advising and strategising on multi-jurisdictional disputes across venues, both nationally and internationally.  
 
Effie earned her Juris Doctor degree in Law from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Wellesley College.