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Roland Maurhofer has shown great perseverance in strengthening the legal team at Barry Callebaut. Roland received the most praise for building up the group legal department from scratch. In a regional structure, he organised regional legal and compliance counsel for the US, Western Europe, EEMEA and Asia Pacific and a small IP team with global responsibility. Another change was the design and implementation of a group compliance program that could be rolled out across the business. Roland was responsible for convincing the management to invest in an in-house legal team and staffing it with the right team members who are motivated to define their own role and establish themselves in the newly created function. Roland prides himself in knowing that the legal department is well accepted by the business as a value-add business partner, and believes this is partly the reason that the company has continued to invest in them.