Tackling Unconscious Bias & Shifting our Workplace Cultures

Ellenore Angelidis is the founder and Board President of the Open Hearts Big Dreams Fund which is focused on increasing educational opportunities (literacy, tech and art) for kids in Ethiopia, her daughter’s birth country. She is currently taking a corporate career break to focus on her family, philanthropic work, public speaking and writing.

Previously, as a 13 year employee of Amazon, Ellenore Angelidis was part of the company’s recent growth. Her last role was Director Kindle Content Risk Management. She was also Amazon's first Global Director of Diversity. Previously, she had business, product and legal roles for Amazon in Seattle, Luxembourg, and Paris – and is passionate about bringing change and forward momentum. Prior to Amazon, she received her legal start at the Chicago firm of Baker & McKenzie, then went on to manage complex litigation including regulatory matters, public relations and crisis management, as well as supported strategic sourcing for Sears, in Chicago, Illinois.

At home, Ellenore has a partner of 25 years and 3 children, ranging in age from college to elementary school, plus a dog and a parrot. As a volunteer, Ellenore has held board and fund-raising positions with the not for profits WACAP and Ethiopia Reads.

Ellenore is also a published writer; on blogs (Ethiopian Ties and Balancing Career Family), and on-line magazines (Working Mother, Adoptive Families, InCulture Parent, and Women’s Essence). She also published her first children’s book, The Loud Prince, with colorful, diverse characters, through Kindle Direct Publishing.

She has built teams across a variety of disciplines, companies, and countries which gives her a uniquely broad perspective to share.

SONIA GALINDO IS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL, SECRETARY, AND CHIEF ETHICS AND COMPLIANCE OFFICER OF FLIR SYSTEMS, INC. BEGINNING IN JULY 2019, MS. GALINDO ASSUMED A KEY ROLE ON THE EXECUTIVE TEAM REPORTING TO PRESIDENT AND CEO JIM CANNON, PROVIDING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF ALL LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE MATTERS IN SUPPORT OF THE COMPANY’S BUSINESS OBJECTIVES.

MS. GALINDO LEADS FLIR’S GLOBAL LEGAL, GLOBAL TRADE COMPLIANCE AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS TEAMS AND SERVES AS THE PRIMARY LEGAL ADVISOR TO SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS. SHE HAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL LEGAL ISSUES WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, EXPORT-IMPORT, DATA PRIVACY, CYBERSECURITY, LIGATION, EMPLOYEE LAW AND OTHER MATTERS THAT ARISE IN COURSE OF BUSINESS AT FLIR. IN ADDITION, SHE MANAGES LEGAL CORPORATE MATTERS INCLUDING SEC FILINGS AND REPORTS, COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS, AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF ITAR AND GOVERNMENT TRADE COMPLIANCE.

“SONIA BRINGS A WEALTH OF LEGAL EXPERTISE TO FLIR, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EXECUTIVE TEAM,” SAID JIM CANNON, PRESIDENT AND CEO AT FLIR. “AT FLIR, OUR TASK IS TO EXCEED OUR COMMITMENTS WITH INTEGRITY, AND SONIA WILL PROVIDE THE LEADERSHIP NECESSARY TO OPERATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GLOBAL LAWS UNDER WHICH THE COMPANY OPERATES.”

MS. GALINDO IS BASED OUT OF FLIR’S WASHINGTON D.C.-AREA HEADQUARTERS IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.

MS. GALINDO JOINED FLIR FROM ROSETTA STONE INC. (NYSE: RST), AN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE COMPANY, WHERE SHE SERVED AS GENERAL COUNSEL AND CORPORATE SECRETARY SINCE 2015. DURING HER LEGAL CAREER, WHICH STARTED AT THE U.S. SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION AND INCLUDED PRIVATE PRACTICE AT A LARGE NATIONAL LAW FIRM, SHE HAS SPENT THE LAST 14 YEARS PROVIDING LEGAL COUNSEL AT MULTIPLE INTERNATIONAL PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES WITH INCREASED RESPONSIBILITIES AND CAPACITY. FROM 2012-14 SHE WORKED AT KEURIG GREEN MOUNTAIN, INC. AS VICE PRESIDENT, ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL-CORPORATE, AND SECRETARY AND FROM 2005-08 AT MCCORMICK & COMPANY, INC. AS ASSOCIATE COUNSEL & ASSISTANT SECRETARY. IN ADDITION, MS. GALINDO SERVED AS ETHICS & EMPLOYMENT COUNSEL AT THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION FROM 2008-11. MS. GALINDO EARNED A JURIS DOCTORATE FROM THE JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL AND BOTH A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN ECONOMICS AND BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN FINANCE AT HOOD COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.

MS. GALINDO, IS FIRST-GENERATION BORN ALONG WITH HER ONE OLDER BROTHER, IS A NATIVE OF WASHINGTON, DC AND AN AVID FAN OF THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS AND WASHINGTON NATIONALS.

Isorys Dilone is the General Counsel of Valet Living and is responsible for all legal affairs of the company.

Her experience includes working as Deputy General Counsel for the Dufry Group, a global and publicly-listed travel retail company, where Isorys advised management in over 40 countries (in USA, LATAM, Europe, and Africa) on matters relating to corporate governance, complex commercial contracts, acquisitions, dispositions, financing, intellectual property, litigation, regulatory matters, and human resources. Isorys began her legal career in the New York office of Latham & Watkins LLP, a global law firm.

She speaks fluent Spanish and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Government with high honors from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (New York, N.Y.) and her Juris Doctor’s degree with high honors from American University, Washington College of Law (Washington, D.C.).

First and foremost, Teresa is a relationship partner for her corporate clients in the employment defense space, and a very practical "problem solver."? She is constantly trying to figure out how to connect her clients to resources that can make their jobs easier, help them navigate through tricky employment and HR issues, as well as connecting them to the excellent attorneys at Constangy throughout the U.S.

In her more than 20 years of practice as a defense-side employment litigation attorney (all years at Constangy), she has litigated cases and counseled clients on almost all conceivable employment-related issues involving everything from co-workers literally spray-painting each other, to employees sending inappropriate texts, to serious whistleblowing and collective and individual wage claims. She’s learned that employment law creates a strange world, and partly because of that, she can't imagine doing anything else. She has taken multiple cases to trial and has argued in front of the appellate courts. She loves mediating, public speaking, mentoring, and making employment law training fun.

Teresa is based in Nashville, but also serves as Administrative Partner and General Counsel at Constangy, has been named to Best Lawyers in America, and the Nashville Business Journal (Women of Influence). She’s served as co-chair of the ABA Litigation Section's Employment and Labor Relations Law Committee, and Teresa was the founding chair of Constangy’s Women's Network.