Matthew Pinder

Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Global Commercial Transactions for Microsoft AI Advertising & Monetization. Commercial technology leader with deep expertise across the tech sector including AdTech, AI and Privacy. Commercially-minded attorney who operates with a sense of urgency, empathy and agility.

Experience

  • Microsoft (4 yrs 2 mos)
    • Assistant General Counsel
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      Global Commercial Transactions for Microsoft AI Advertising & Monetization

    • Senior Corporate Counsel, Global Sales
      Jun 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Head of Commercial Legal for Microsoft Advertising. As part of the executive leadership team and global DPO, I lead a team of attorneys to support Microsoft Advertising Global Sales.

  • Board Member at The NAI
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Xandr (London, England, United Kingdom)
    • Group VP & DPO / Head of Global Legal Privacy and Policy and Head of Commercial Legal
      Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mos

      Group Vice President & DPO for Xandr, a digitial advertising platform acquired by Microsoft. • Head of commercial legal for Global Sales supporting all commercial engagements across the Xandr technology product suite. • Appointed DPO and lead and manage the Global Privacy and Public Policy function. Manage a team of attorneys to oversee all privacy practices, processes and policies for all regions. Negotiate all commercial privacy documentation and work with ELT to lead the data strategy for Xandr. • ELT Board member attending all strategy planning and executive board meetings. • Antitrust and Regulatory Global Lead Attorney working with various Competition Regulation Authorities to ensure compliance and provide input into regulation and assessment at an industry level. • Privacy Litigation Lead collaborating with AT&T Litigation and external counsel to respond to all privacy litigation both direct and as a third party. • Lead Attorney for regulatory action responses. Collaboration with External Affairs, Product and Commercial to respond to regulatory action.

    • Vice President, Head Global Privacy and Policy Attorney
      May 2021 - Jan 2022 · 9 mos

    • Vice President, Attorney
      Mar 2020 - May 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • General Counsel, EMEA at Pivotal Software, Inc. (acquired by VMware)
    Aug 2015 - Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos

    EMEA General Counsel supporting Pivotal on its journey from start-up to IPO on NYSE. EMEA Leadership Team member overseeing the negotiation of all commercial technology agreements for all regions in EMEA across full product and services suite. Global clients across all sectors including banking and financial services, retail, telecoms, automotive and technology.

  • Commercial Counsel and Manager, UK&I at Dell EMC
    Sep 2011 - Aug 2015 · 4 yrs

    Commercial Counsel and Manager in the UK&I Commercial Legal Team supporting all commercial terms for software, hardware and professional services for EMC strategic customers.