Aparna D. Williams has over 20 years of experience scaling international legal teams in high growth private and public cybersecurity companies. She successfully built and managed teams supporting sales and revenue, product development, compliance, and M&A teams. The breadth of her experience includes software, SaaS, hardware, hosted services, and professional Services. Her focus has always been innovative solutions to match the pace of business without compromising quality. She was the first in-house lawyer and head of legal at Shippo, a venture backed ecommerce company with a focus on API technology to facilitate courier services. She served as the associate general counsel- corporate at Imperva, Inc., a privately held application cybersecurity provider. She spent 19 years at Symantec Corporation, the world's largest public cybersecurity company at the time, working through the evolution of cybersecurity and it’s evolving threats and leading through the transformation from on-premises solutions to the cloud. Williams received her B.A. in literature and history from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a juris doctor from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law. Williams is admitted to practice in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. She focuses her non-work hours on her family and mentoring the next generation of women leaders.