Mr. Tabrez Ahmad, Chair Public Policy Section
Mr. Tabrez Ahmad, Group Director Government Affairs & Public Policy, Asia Pacific and Japan, Dell Technologies. He has been with Dell Technologies since November 2018. Dell Technologies Inc (Dell) is a provider of desktop personal computers, software, and peripherals. The company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports information technology infrastructure such as laptops, desktops, mobiles, workstations, storage devices, software, cloud solutions, and notebooks. It markets products under Dell, Pivotal, Dell EMC, SecureWorks, and Alienware, brand names. Dell also offers a range of financial services such as originating, collecting, and servicing customer receivables financing agreements, related to the use of its products, software, and service solutions. Dell serves corporate businesses, government, educational institutions, law enforcement agencies, healthcare organizations, and small and medium-sized businesses. The company has business presence across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. Dell is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, the US.
Prior it he as the Director Corporate Affairs, AB InBev India & Southeast Asia, Director Government Affairs, Flipkart (Under M&A with eBay). He advised top-notch CEOs in India and US from pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device/equipment, healthcare, software, telecom, electronics, e-business, agribusiness, media and entertainment industries on state, federal and international policies, and regulations for compliant business operation.
He was Secretary General of Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India. Before joining OPPI, he was Director IP at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to that he did research on intellectual property rights in emerging economies at George Washington University, Washington DC.
He also worked at FICCI and headed the technology, IPR and BISNET departments. He engaged with regulators, government departments, enforcement agencies and intl. institutions like DCGI, CDSCO, TRAI, RBI, SEBI, CCI, BIS, excise, custom, police, CBI, CVC, public prosecutors, judiciary, CERT-IN, NIC, NIXI, NSA, WHO, WIPO, UNIDO etc.
He did MCA from Bharat University-Chennai, MBA from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade-New Delhi and LLM from George Washington University-Washington DC.