Rosana Moura Garbacik is the General Counsel and Compliance Officer of the Piston Group and is responsible for the overall legal affairs of the Group in USA and Mexico.


Garbacik comes to Piston Group with 15 years of North American and Latin American experience. She was previously corporate counsel for Yazaki North America Inc., where she was responsible for negotiating a multitude of contracts including supply, sales, vendor service, IT, license, and other general corporate agreements.


Prior to Yazaki, she was lead counsel and board secretary at Sodecia North America Inc. In this role, Garbacik was a member of the company’s investment committee and provided support and counsel to all legal actions including corporate governance, finance, commercial, civil, litigation, contracts, immigration, labor, employment, and legal compliance.


Garbacik’s extensive legal career also includes serving as an attorney for Stacer PLC; judicial intern to Judge Avern Cohn, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; and legal extern for the National Labor Relations Board among others. Previous to that, she was a Judge’s Attorney for the highest Court of the state of Goias, in Brazil. 


Garbacik earned a Juris Doctor and a Master of Law degree from Wayne State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree from University Federal of Goias.