Director of Privacy & Data Governance Products, Exterro
Fahad Diwan is Director of Privacy & Data Governance Products at Exterro, a market Data Risk Management software provider. In his role, hebrings to market products that streamline and automate privacy compliance and enable effective data governance. Previously, Fahad was a privacy lawyer & consultant and worked at leadings firms like Norton Rose Fulbright, KPMG, and EY.
Independent legal counsel and advisor
A practicing lawyer over 28 years, Gowree Gokhale focuses on the IP, Technology, Media and Entertainment, E-commerce, Cyber Security, Data Protection Law, Pharma medical devices practices. She is expert in various high tech industry aspects as also fintech, medtech, edtech.
She has assisted several international businesses in India strategy, regulatory advice, corporate and strategic deals, litigation and arbitration in TMT and Pharma sector. She has spearheaded several policy initiatives for the TMT and Pharma industry including for intermediaries, social media companies, e-commerce companies, online content companies, gaming industry, IT industry as also for privacy and data protection and cyber security laws. She has been named in several legal directories, including in the Hall of Fame (TMT) in Legal 500 for consecutive 3 years (2024, 2023 & 2022), top 100 Indian lawyers by Indian Business Law Journal for several years, won BW Global Legal Leaders Awards 2023-24 for recognition of India’s Best Fintech Lawyer (Apex of Excellence) and recently won Legal 500 Lawyer of the year 2024 India award for the Data protection practice. She has been member of task force appointed by Consumer Affairs Ministry on digital dark patters and guidelines against greenwashing.
A Solicitor and a registered Patent & Trade Mark attorney, Gowree is also a member of International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL). She is Co-chair of FICCI's Task force on Privacy and Data security committee. She has received master’s degree in commercial laws and consumer protection laws.
Gowree believes in bringing about social change through educating the young minds of today. She has been visiting faculty at various institutes Gowree has authored several research reports and articles on variety of subjects. She has also shared her thoughts across various national and international platforms on several subject matters and is often sought after by popular media, for her frank but well-informed point of view.
Director of Sales, India & APAC
Andrew Rabindra has 15 years of experience in selling category defining IT products to large enterprise organizations across the globe. Having worked for AOL Netscape, Oracle, LexisNexis, Sword Group and Kaseya in the past, he specializes in helping businesses adopt IT products that are based on the theory of data science, process optimization, security and incident response. As a part of Exterro’s international sales team, Andrew is focused on building a strong market presence for Exterro in India and APAC. Apart from work he loves to entertain friends, strum the guitar, sing and write songs.