About

Since its founding in 2007, InMobi has grown into a world-leading mobile marketing and advertising platform provider present in around 16 countries. Pujarini Guha Maulik joined the firm in 2012 and today as vice president legal heads a team of eight in-house lawyers and oversees the legal and privacy portfolios across the all jurisdictions InMobi operates in. In addition to heading the overall commercial contracting and employment portfolios, she also oversees commercial negotiations, IP matters, investor relations, acquisitions, joint venture agreements and claims related matters besides other legal advisory work. A key feature of her tenure at the company includes setting up a legal team from inception which involved ‘transforming a reactive heterogeneous legal department into an intuitive, mature function which is well organised into sub functions, regions and practice areas based on respective expertise and business needs’, she says. Maulik is also commended for setting up a strong privacy practice, spearheading the company’s steady drive towards privacy compliance as it gears up to implement GDPR compliance in a timely manner. This involved creating InMobi’s charter for privacy and GDPR compliance and penning a strategic partnership with Microsoft. Her work in this area has not gone unnoticed by senior management as she will soon be a member of InMobi’s privacy committee. Maulik has also been recognised for handling complex commercial deals and key strategic partnerships unique to the industry such as the aforementioned deal with Microsoft as well as the acquisition of a US-based SSP which propelled InMobi’s endeavours to provide a unified marketing hub with connected platforms. Prior to InMobi, Maulik worked in the legal team at Infosys focusing on commercial contracting, post integration, deal structuring, licensing and employment practice areas. Summing up her 13 years of experience as an in-house counsel, she had the following to say: ‘My exposure has been diverse starting with compliances in the pharmaceutical industry, to complex outsourcing deal structuring to heading a legal team overall involving commercial-legal, disputes, corporate governance, employment, privacy and acquisitions. Having worked at both large and mid-sized organisations, I have learnt the fine balance [of adapting] to both environments’.