Corporate Risks and Leadership

Eduardo Esteban Mariscotti is a lawyer, and he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A native of Argentina, he earned a Master of Law (LLM) in International Business Law from the University of London in England with a scholarship from the British Council.

Eduardo also holds an MBA from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Lee Iacocca Leadership Program for Future Leaders in Business and Industry at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, and he took the Management Program for Lawyers at Yale School of Business, Connecticut.

Eduardo worked for Baker & McKenzie at the Buenos Aires Office and he took a six-month internship for international lawyers at Wilde Sapte Solicitors in London, England, in 1996. He was Chief of the Legal Department of Cablevision, one of the biggest TV cable operators in Latin America from 1998 to 2003. From 2004 to 2011, he was General Counsel of Walmart Argentina (Director of Legal, Ethics, Compliance, and Labor Relations) and a member of the Walmart Argentina Executive Committee.

In 2011 he was transferred to Bentonville, Arkansas, to work at Walmart Home Office. At Walmart, from 2011 to 2017 he took on the roles of VP of International Compliance, VP and Latin America Regional Ethics Officer, and VP of Human Resources for the US market. As VP of International Compliance, Eduardo designed and delivered a global compliance strategy for the organization, excluding the US market. He oversaw the development and delivery of compliance programs and headcounts in facilities worldwide and supervised the review and evaluation of compliance issues and concerns.

As VP of Ethics Latin America, Eduardo held responsibility for designing and executing an ethics program for over 400,000 associates spanning ten countries across the Latin American region. He supervised a 45-member team in creating, implementing, reviewing, and updating policies, tools, and procedures for an organizational ethics program.

Eduardo supervised Compliance Programs across Canada, Central America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. He managed large geographically dispersed teams with diverse skill sets and he invested time in training and mentoring people to ensure organizational growth and professional development. His expertise in Legal and Corporate Risks is supplemented by his experience and qualifications in Business Law, Strategy, and Human Resources.

He works for Cameron Smith & Associates (CSA) in Arkansas, one of the best headhunting firms in the world. He helps companies recruit top talent in the United States and worldwide.

Eduardo was certified at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and at the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). Eduardo wrote articles about legal, ethics, and compliance in legal publications and newspapers. He also wrote a paper for the International In-house Counsel Journal. Eduardo has given over 100 lectures and presentations on legal management, risks, ethics, compliance, anticorruption, diversity, and leadership.

Eduardo was a member of the Advisory Board of the Hispanic Initiative at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Hispanic Corporate Counsel.

At Walmart, he was Co-Founder and Treasurer of the Hispanic Officer Caucus.