Senior Legal Director
HP Inc.
Colombia
Arusiak joined HP in December 2000 as the Country Counsel for Venezuela, based in Caracas.
From September 2010, Arusiak was responsible for the Legal department of HP Colombia, and moved to Bogotá in February 2011, from where she supported the legal need for both countries.
In Nov, 2014 Arusiak was appointed as acting Hewlett Packard Colombia Managing Director to lead both the commercial and legal representation of the subsidiary while also serving as the Regional Legal Director for the MCA North Region. In this role she led a great Legal team that provided legal support to the countries within MCA North. She also continued being the Country Counsel for HP in Colombia.
After Hewlett Packard split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Arusiak was selected to become the SLA (South Latin America – excluding Brazil) Regional Manager Counsel, leading a bigger team in the region and continued leading the Colombian legal team as the Region’s Country Counsel. Thereafter, from 2016, her regional scope included Brazil as well.
In Nov 2019, she was promoted to an expanded role as Associate General Counsel for the North America & Latin America Markets, looking after two out of ten of the geographical markets at HP.
Before joining HP she was the Country Counsel at the former Texaco subsidiary in Venezuela (now Chevron-Texaco).
From 1994 to Dec 1999, she held the position of Legal Advisor at the former Smurfit subsidiary in Venezuela (now Kappa-Smurfit).
She also worked for 4 years as an attorney in one of most recognised law firms in Caracas, Escritorio Lara Peña from 1989 to 1993.
Arusiak has a strong corporate background and expertise in setting up new legal structures and dealing with complex deals, very volatile legislations, and public sector procurement deals and contract negotiations.
She was admitted to the Caracas’ Bar in November 1991 as an attorney-at-Law. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Santa Maria University Law School and a Master’s degree in Maritime Law from the Merchant Maritime Superior Studies’ Scholl, also in Caracas.