About

As part of the management team based in Xilinx’s EMEA headquarters, David Dobbyn has a central role in supporting Xilinx’s regional business activities. Upon joining Xilinx in January 2012, Dobbyn was responsible for legal and compliance matters relevant to the EMEA region. Having reshaped the regional legal function, his scope of responsibility was extended in 2015 to include India, which he claims has given him an ‘entirely different set of interesting challenges’. Prior to joining Xilinx, Dobbyn trained and practiced for a number of years at a top-tier law firm in Ireland where he handled a wide range of technology and M&A work for large Irish and international clients in diverse sectors. Dobbyn also gained experience through legal secondments at Dell, Norkom Technologies and Meteor Mobile. These experiences had a significant impact on his professional development and long term career choices: ‘I was given great scope, relative to my experience level, to handle a fascinating range of business and legal issues. My secondments taught me how to deliver legal guidance as a credible business partner in a very dynamic commercial environment’. Dobbyn served as chairman of the general counsel forum at the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland for 2015. As a founding member of the Forum in 2014 he views it as a very useful avenue for senior in-house lawyers to share experiences, discuss challenges and learn from each other.