About

Since 1996, Madhu Katri has been building her formidable in-house legal career at large multinational companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers, GE Healthcare and Wipro have all benefitted from her legal and operational expertise, until 2011 when she joined Microsoft India as associate general counsel. During her time as general counsel for IT services company Wipro in over 55 countries between 2005 and 2011, Katri amassed a plethora of industry-specific skills and experience. In her current role, Katri advises the Microsoft’s business leaders on issues ranging from intellectual property, compliance, commercial and transactional matters, corporate governance, and government affairs. In addition to facilitating product releases for the company, in the coming months Katri will be helping Microsoft to comply with a new order from the Indian Supreme Court. The order prevents software companies from advertising prenatal gender testing for parents, following millions of abortions of female unborn babies that has created a chronic imbalance of genders in the country. She also looks set to play a pivotal role in implementing the parent company’s purchase of LinkedIn in India worth approximately $26bn.