Kim Yapchai is currently Senior Vice President, Chief ESG Officer at Tenneco, a $17 billion automotive component manufacturer with around 74,000 employees and locations in more than 20 countries. She is an experienced global leader with substantial track record of dealing successfully with complex legal issues in multi-national, public companies, including Ford, Whirlpool, Masco Corporation, and Tenneco. She is known as a business-oriented advisor who counsels senior leaders on legal issues of major importance and designs pragmatic solutions to achieve strategic results. She combines more than 25 years of commercial legal experience with her knowledge of the business to protect the company and advance its strategy. At Tenneco, she leads a cross-functional team to set and achieve the company’s ESG strategy and report progress to stakeholders. She also manages Tenneco’s Legal Operations and Global Compliance Program. She was named a Top Mind by Compliance Week Magazine and she led Whirlpool’s efforts to achieve “World’s Most Ethical Company” designation by Ethisphere.
