Vanessa L. Vargas-Land is Vice President, Asst. Compliance Officer. In this role, she supports ADM’s Compliance Officer and the Office of Compliance and Ethics team (OCE) in the development and management of the company’s global compliance and ethics programs.She directly supervises OCE’s Commercial, Programs and Employment groups, and is a member of ADM’s Global Operating Committee. She also serves as an Officer of ADM’s Women’s Initiative Network.

Most recently, Vanessa was Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer atChiquita Brands, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to that role, Vanessa was a member of Abbott Laboratories’ Office of Ethics and Compliance, and held various titles, including, Ethics and Compliance Officer for Abbott’s International Nutritional Division, Ethics and Compliance Officer for Abbott’s International Division and Director, Ethics and Compliance. She also served four years as Litigation Counsel in Abbott’s Legal Department. Before beginning her career at Abbott, Vanessa was a commercial trial attorney, and worked at two law firms, including D’Ancona & Pflaum, LLC (now merged with Seyfarth Shaw) in Chicago, Illinois.

Ms. Vargas-Land earned a BA with distinction in English and later,a JD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association, the Corporate Counsel Women of Color, and the Chicago Bar. She is a frequent speaker on female leadership and compliance issues, and recently served as a co-chair of Martindale-Hubbell’s Counsel-to-Counsel Forum on “Managing Investigations, Compliance and Audits,” in New York, New York.