Vasiliki Christoforidou
Senior Director, Senior Regional Counsel GSAP & BeNe at Stryker- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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Greek Native or bilingual proficiency
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French Elementary proficiency
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German Native or bilingual proficiency
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Suzanne Durdevic
I have had the privilege to hire Vasiliki in 2012 when she joined BSC and to work with her and be her manager during the past 7 years up until October 2018. I have seen Vasiliki grow from a very solid German commercial lawyer into a highly skilled, business minded, agile and creative European Legal and Compliance MedTech expert and leader. Vasiliki is a rare mix of integrity in all she does, strong technical legal skills that she uses to provide pragmatic commercial advice, under often extreme time pressure in view of the number of countries and divisions she supports, with an unmatched passion for innovative thinking on healthcare business models recognized by all her business partners. She has demonstrated this strong business acumen by being the only Legal employee to complete a two-year MBA while working full time. In addition, her strategic and creative way of approaching Healthcare solutions and partnerships has been recognized by the global CEO winning spirit award and twice by the EMEA presidents club award. Vasiliki has also developed a solid European compliance expertise and is managing successfully a compliance specialist in her countries cluster that generate 600 M USD of total turnover in 2018. Add to this that she is an outgoing and genuinely team spirited colleague who enjoys a good laughter and sharing a community activity or a relaxed diner, and you have a great personality and professional that I recommend warmly. Suzanne Durdevic, Senior Director, General Counsel EMEA, Boston Scientific, (August 2004 to October 2018)
Dominik Schulte Oestrich
Vasiliki is a superb business minded person, with the ability to pick up the essence of any matter within a blink of an eye. Reliability and speed go together with a strong personality. I always loved to work with her. All meetings with her were accurately prepared and fruitfull.
Suzanne Durdevic
I have had the privilege to hire Vasiliki in 2012 when she joined BSC and to work with her and be her manager during the past 7 years up until October 2018. I have seen Vasiliki grow from a very solid German commercial lawyer into a highly skilled, business minded, agile and creative European Legal and Compliance MedTech expert and leader. Vasiliki is a rare mix of integrity in all she does, strong technical legal skills that she uses to provide pragmatic commercial advice, under often extreme time pressure in view of the number of countries and divisions she supports, with an unmatched passion for innovative thinking on healthcare business models recognized by all her business partners. She has demonstrated this strong business acumen by being the only Legal employee to complete a two-year MBA while working full time. In addition, her strategic and creative way of approaching Healthcare solutions and partnerships has been recognized by the global CEO winning spirit award and twice by the EMEA presidents club award. Vasiliki has also developed a solid European compliance expertise and is managing successfully a compliance specialist in her countries cluster that generate 600 M USD of total turnover in 2018. Add to this that she is an outgoing and genuinely team spirited colleague who enjoys a good laughter and sharing a community activity or a relaxed diner, and you have a great personality and professional that I recommend warmly. Suzanne Durdevic, Senior Director, General Counsel EMEA, Boston Scientific, (August 2004 to October 2018)
Dominik Schulte Oestrich
Vasiliki is a superb business minded person, with the ability to pick up the essence of any matter within a blink of an eye. Reliability and speed go together with a strong personality. I always loved to work with her. All meetings with her were accurately prepared and fruitfull.
Suzanne Durdevic
I have had the privilege to hire Vasiliki in 2012 when she joined BSC and to work with her and be her manager during the past 7 years up until October 2018. I have seen Vasiliki grow from a very solid German commercial lawyer into a highly skilled, business minded, agile and creative European Legal and Compliance MedTech expert and leader. Vasiliki is a rare mix of integrity in all she does, strong technical legal skills that she uses to provide pragmatic commercial advice, under often extreme time pressure in view of the number of countries and divisions she supports, with an unmatched passion for innovative thinking on healthcare business models recognized by all her business partners. She has demonstrated this strong business acumen by being the only Legal employee to complete a two-year MBA while working full time. In addition, her strategic and creative way of approaching Healthcare solutions and partnerships has been recognized by the global CEO winning spirit award and twice by the EMEA presidents club award. Vasiliki has also developed a solid European compliance expertise and is managing successfully a compliance specialist in her countries cluster that generate 600 M USD of total turnover in 2018. Add to this that she is an outgoing and genuinely team spirited colleague who enjoys a good laughter and sharing a community activity or a relaxed diner, and you have a great personality and professional that I recommend warmly. Suzanne Durdevic, Senior Director, General Counsel EMEA, Boston Scientific, (August 2004 to October 2018)
Dominik Schulte Oestrich
Vasiliki is a superb business minded person, with the ability to pick up the essence of any matter within a blink of an eye. Reliability and speed go together with a strong personality. I always loved to work with her. All meetings with her were accurately prepared and fruitfull.
Suzanne Durdevic
I have had the privilege to hire Vasiliki in 2012 when she joined BSC and to work with her and be her manager during the past 7 years up until October 2018. I have seen Vasiliki grow from a very solid German commercial lawyer into a highly skilled, business minded, agile and creative European Legal and Compliance MedTech expert and leader. Vasiliki is a rare mix of integrity in all she does, strong technical legal skills that she uses to provide pragmatic commercial advice, under often extreme time pressure in view of the number of countries and divisions she supports, with an unmatched passion for innovative thinking on healthcare business models recognized by all her business partners. She has demonstrated this strong business acumen by being the only Legal employee to complete a two-year MBA while working full time. In addition, her strategic and creative way of approaching Healthcare solutions and partnerships has been recognized by the global CEO winning spirit award and twice by the EMEA presidents club award. Vasiliki has also developed a solid European compliance expertise and is managing successfully a compliance specialist in her countries cluster that generate 600 M USD of total turnover in 2018. Add to this that she is an outgoing and genuinely team spirited colleague who enjoys a good laughter and sharing a community activity or a relaxed diner, and you have a great personality and professional that I recommend warmly. Suzanne Durdevic, Senior Director, General Counsel EMEA, Boston Scientific, (August 2004 to October 2018)
Dominik Schulte Oestrich
Vasiliki is a superb business minded person, with the ability to pick up the essence of any matter within a blink of an eye. Reliability and speed go together with a strong personality. I always loved to work with her. All meetings with her were accurately prepared and fruitfull.
Experience
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Stryker
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Director, Senior Regional Counsel GSAP & BeNe
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Jun 2019 - Present
Member of the European Legal & Compliance leadership team: to set the direction for the European Legal & Compliance team, to align with business strategy, to take strategic decisions & influence (ii) to help the team navigate the matrix and build the team’s brand, and (iii) to establish and maintain an environment for success of team members. Leader of the team of legal counsels in GSAP & BeNe region (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Belgium & Netherlands) key legal business partner of the GSAP & BeNL region and active member of the Regional Leadership Team Acting as the legal point of contact for Stryker’s R&D teams in the GSAP region Divisional Counsel for Trauma& Extremities Division in Europe
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Education
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WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
Columbia University - Columbia Business School
executive education -
Institute of Commercial Law at the University of Bielefeld
International and European Commercial Business Law -
University of New South Wales
Master, Law, International Law -
Aristoteleion Panepistimion Thessalonikis
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Universität Bielefeld
law