About

DJ Goh is chief legal counsel for Asia, Middle East and Africa at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). In his current role, Goh is responsible for legal, contracting, company secretarial and compliance support for all business lines in the information technology services and solutions company, with approximately $600m of revenue across 15 countries, 27 cities and 40 offices in the region. He has extensive international legal experience in corporate, commercial, risk management, governance, compliance, finance and dispute management matters and has worked with a number of large multinational companies and international law firms in the Asia Pacific region. Goh enjoys passing on the many professional lessons he has accumulated team and says he finds it ‘very satisfying to coach my team members and provide opportunities to develop their careers. I ensure that my team members are engaged and understand their roles and responsibilities by a fair performance appraisal and reward system. I am also very good at attracting, hiring and retaining high quality legal counsel for my employer’. Goh has been central to all the key changes the legal service delivery model has overcome at CSC. He has achieved this by implementing best practices, process efficiencies, faster response times, additional language capabilities, new legal expertise, consistent contract templates, various playbooks, guides, policies and protocols, and codified knowledge management – ‘all of which helped to achieve optimal utilisation of legal resources and substantially improved the quality and satisfaction levels in legal services’.