Credit: gopixa/Adobe Stock Data Security Company Hires Veteran Open-Source Lawyer as Legal Chief
Mishi Choudhary is taking the legal reins of Virtru, which helps more than 7,000 organizations safeguard and encrypt data.
August 31, 2022 at 02:24 PM
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Data security company Virtru has hired Mishi Choudhary as senior vice president and general counsel.
Choudhary joins Washington, D.C.-based Virtru with more than 17 years of legal experience. She most recently worked as a partner at New York City-based law firm Moglen & Associates while simultaneously serving as legal director at the Software Freedom Law Center.
Mishi Choudhary, general counsel of Virtru. Courtesy photo
Choudhary began working with SFLC in 2006 and became legal director in 2015. In 2010, she founded the Software Freedom Law Center for India, serving as its president and executive director until 2017.
At SFLC, Choudhary has served as the primary legal representative of many free software developers and nonprofit distributors, including Debian, the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL.
Choudhary said she looks forward to helping the Virtru executive team grow the adoption of its recently launched OpenTDF project, an open source initiative that helps developers encrypt and protect sensitive data flowing in and out of their applications.
"This is an incredibly exciting time to be joining Virtru as more developers turn to TDF for governing sensitive data," she said.
Virtru's CEO, John Ackerly, said Choudhary will help the company move TDF "from primarily a government spec to a true international standard that is capable of helping the world realize the benefits of zero trust data control and enhanced data privacy."
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