About

Singapore-based Jeff Bullwinkel has led Microsoft’s Asia Pacific legal operations for the last four years. Responsible for a team of over 75 legal and corporate affairs professionals, Bullwinkel supports Microsoft’s businesses in over 30 countries across the region. This includes supporting commercial transactions and providing regulatory counsel to business groups on public policy issues such as intellectual property rights, privacy, internet security and safety, competition, and international trade. He is also responsible for providing legal, corporate affairs and community affairs support for Microsoft’s regional sales, marketing and services organisation and develops regional enforcement strategies aimed at addressing internet safety and cybercrime attacks, intellectual property theft, and compliance issues. Bullwinkel joined Microsoft in 2000 and was initially based in Hong Kong, where he managed the company’s public policy activities in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bullwinkel was a trial attorney at the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice and at the onset of his career served as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.