About

Kelly Xiao began as a paralegal and then solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills in Sydney and then moved to Alice Yang & Associates Solicitors before taking up her current position at VMware in April 2016. Xiao serves as an associate employment counsel for Asia Pacific and Japan for VMware, a specialist workplace technology company. Headquartered in California, the company is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology, particularly facilitating flexible working environments, modernising data centres and other digital workplace innovations. VMware is part of the Dell Technologies business group and has a global presence. Xiao is part of an important and growing Asia Pacific team based in Australia. She is an emerging talent, and has already made waves in the industry press having been named as one of the young in-house lawyers of the year for counsel under 30 years of age. Xiao shows the potential of an aspiring general counsel in the making and is a rising star to keep an eye on, thanks to her position at the forefront of in-house legal practice in the techology sector.