Duties included:- Lead Regional Counsel for IBM Software Group with Legal responsibility to support major transactions across Software Licensing, SaaS, PaaS and Watson AI offerings:- Led negotiations on major Enterprise Licence Agreements and large Cross Brand transactions enabling business transformation:- Structuring, drafting and negotiating large complex IT Contracts:- Provision of Legal and Commercial Support to Executive Management team:- Support and Led Team of IT lawyers across the Asia Pacific Region.- Provision of risk management and Corporate Compliance and Governance services across the Asia Pacific region.

In addition to supporting IBM Software Business across the IBM Growth Market Territory, I set up, managed and led the IBM Legal Resource Centre in Bangalore, India:Provided Management support, guidance and mentoring to 21 new Law Graduates hired into IBM Legal Resource Centre from National Law Schools in India. The function of this unit was to support IBM legal activities in India/South Asia, ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand and the IBM Corporation in the US:Trained and Developed the Legal Resource Centre lawyers and oversaw their transition into the existing IBM Legal teams around the Asia Pacific Region.