Ashish ChandraVice President & Head of Legal (Media & Technology), Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (telecom venture of Reliance Industries Limited)
Ashish is a senior corporate and intellectual property lawyer with 14+ years of experience in Technology, Telecom, eCommerce, ePayments, Media and Broadcasting industry.
Ashish is a qualified lawyer from University of Delhi; a member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India; holds specialized diplomas in Information Technology Laws and Intellectual Property Laws from premiere law institutions in India.
Ashish has been associated with Fortune 500 MNCs viz. NCR Corporation, eBay & PayPal, News Corporation and Reliance Industries Limited and helped them to create innovative and disruptive businesses in Technology, Telecom, eCommerce, ePayments, Media and Broadcasting space.
Ashish is assisting Reliance Industries in building India’s largest greenfield telecom and broadband services that includes wire and 4G wireless broadband, VoLTE, media and entertainment, mobile payments, cloud computing and ecommerce.
Ashish is also assisting Reliance Industries in buying various domain names from third parties and obtaining 4 gTLDs from ICANN.
Ashish has trained approx 2000 law enforcement officers and approx 30 Magistrates and Public Prosecutors across India on legal and enforcement related issues w.r.t. cybercrimes in India
Ashish is also a regular and go-to speaker at various legal forums and conferences.
Ashish has authored various articles on legal subjects, the recent one being on Bitcoins, India’s first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of Bitcoins. This article is published by leading Indian and US legal journals.