ACC InConversation: Insights from Influential In-house Leaders with Rishi Varma, Corporate Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary, Cargill (Nov. 14, 2024)
Recorded On: 11/14/2024
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Join this fireside chat with Rishi Varma, Corporate Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary at Cargill. In conversation with ACC President and CEO, Veta T. Richardson, Rishi will discuss his passion for advocacy, its capacity to enact positive change, and how it has shaped his career as a corporate lawyer and in-house professional. Gain insight into the importance of creating a positive culture for your in-house teams and its ability to connect people from different places and perspectives.
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Rishi Varma
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Cargill
Rishi Varma serves as Cargill’s Corporate Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary. In this role, he also serves as General Counsel. He oversees corporate governance, global ethics & compliance, global security, government relations, law and shareholder relations. Additionally, Rishi is a member of Cargill’s Executive Team. Rishi is known for being a respected advisor who leads with passion and purpose.
Prior to joining Cargill in January 2024, Rishi served as General Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Before joining HPE, Rishi served as general counsel for two different publicly traded companies from 2005 to 2013 – TPC Group, Inc., a petrochemical company, and Trico Marine Services, Inc., a global subsea service provider. Prior to these companies, Rishi served as securities counsel and director of investor relations for EGL, Inc., a publicly traded global freight forwarder, and as a business associate in the New York office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LP.
In addition, Rishi is committed to advancing the way people live and work by serving on several non-profit boards. Rishi serves on the Board of the Tahirih Justice Center, where he has worked on various matters including visa and asylum cases. He also serves on the board of the Texas Asia Society, the leading educational organization promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among the peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the West, as well as the Memorial Hermann Hospital System Board, the Equal Justice Works Board of Counselors, and the Georgetown University Law Center Advisory Board.
He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. Rishi and his wife, Michelle, have three children
Veta T. Richardson
President & CEO
Association of Corporate Counsel
Veta T. Richardson is the president and chief executive officer of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), Headquartered in Washington, DC, with staff offices in Charleston, SC (USA), Melbourne, Australia and Brussels, Belgium (opening 2018), ACC is the world’s largest legal association dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of in-house counsel with more than 45,000 members spanning 85 nations.
Richardson’s top priorities as CEO are to increase ACC’s global footprint and lead the organization through a strategic plan and vision designed to strengthen ACC’s position as the global voice for in-house counsel. Most recently, she led ACC’s membership growth via merger with three national associations and their integration as ACC Middle East (Dubai), ACC Australia and ACC Hong Kong within ACC’s 59 chapter network.
Richardson has been consistently recognized for corporate governance leadership by the National Association of Corporate Directors, which named her to its “Directorship 100” four times, and her work on the role and positioning of the chief legal officer was cited in connection with the Blue Ribbon Commission Report for the boards on impact on corporate culture. Under her leadership, ACC received the “When Work Works” award for exemplary workplace strategies by the Society for Human Resource Management and Families and Work Institute.
Previously, as executive director of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), Richardson was widely recognized for thought leadership in the areas of diversity and inclusion and advised hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies and multinational law firms to establish and strengthen their diversity/inclusion programs. Her in-house expertise was shaped over more than a decade as in-house counsel at Sunoco, Inc. in Philadelphia, where her practice focus was corporate governance, transactions, securities disclosure, and finance.
Richardson has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Financial Times’ Agenda Week, Bloomberg News, The Financial Post (Canada), Law Society Gazette (United Kingdom), and countless other business and legal publications. She has also authored op-eds and articles in Corporate Counsel, Law360, Forbes, China Business Law Journal, India Business Law Journal, and Ethisphere Magazine. She serves on the editorial advisory board for Asia Business Law Journal. Her first book, Take Six (TakeSixHabits.com), was released by ForbesBooks in August 2021 and by December achieved Amazon #1 bestseller status for strategic management books.
She received a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland at College Park and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.
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