Valeria Plastino is Executive Vice president, General Counsel and Regional Ethics & Compliance Officer for Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider.

She has direct responsibility for all legal, regulatory and compliance matters related to Cirion’s operations. She oversees a team of 18 attorneys and 2 regulatory experts located in ten different countries.

Valeria joined the company in 2007, formerly Lumen/CenturyLink, Level 3 and Global Crossing. She brings 25+ years of experience advising multinational companies in the technology and telecom industries regarding business, regulatory, corporate, commercial and compliance matters, as well as in international transactional work in connection with corporate acquisitions and cross-border investments in Latin America. She has also played a key role in the numerous acquisitions through which the company went through in the region (Lumen/CenturyLink, Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing).

Previously, she worked at the Argentine law firm Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi as corporate attorney, at StarMedia Network Inc. as VP and Associate General Counsel, and until early 2001 she was a Corporate Associate at the international law firm Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

Valeria holds law degree from the National University of La Plata School of Law, Argentina, a post-graduate degree in business law from the University of Bologna, Italy and a Master of Law (L.L.M.) Degree in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law, New York USA. She has also completed the Executive Education Program, “Management Program for Lawyers” at Yale University – Yale School of Management, USA.

She is fluent in Spanish, English and Italian and admitted to practice law in New York State and Buenos Aires Federal District.