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About Linda Filardi

Linda Filardi holds a juris doctor from Seton Hall School of Law, where she served as notes and comments editor for the school's Law Review. In the review, she authored and published an article on discrimination in employment decisions. Linda Filardi enrolled in law school after obtaining a master's degree in international affairs, which she earned through the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Ms. Filardi has gone on to serve as counsel to multiple firms across the US and Japan. Thus far, she has served her longest tenure with GE Capital, which she joined in 2001 as senior counsel for the firms' commercial finance group in Tokyo, Japan. She returned to the United States in 2003 and became executive counsel for GE Capital's leveraged finance and marketing group.

Ms. Filardi was the vice chair of the General Electric Political Action Committee (GEPAC), in which capacity she earned the Business Leader Award in 2010. She also distinguished herself as recipient of GE's Legal Value Award for Customer Alignment three years in a row.

Now in service as senior director and associate general counsel for Capital One's corporate bank, Linda Filardi oversees legal matters related to a multi-industry lending business. She balances this work with service as deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for Antares Capital and is a board member for Half the Sky, an organization that builds infant care centers and preschools in children's homes across China.