Bradford L. Smith LCA — President, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Compliance Officer at Microsoft

Mr. Bradford L. Smith, also known as Brad, LCA has been the President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft Corporation since September 10, 2015 and has been its Chief Compliance Officer sinceJuly 2002. Mr. Smith served as a Secretary and General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation since November 2001 until September 10, 2015 and served as its Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs from 2011 to September 10, 2015. He was responsible for its work to implement the antitrust consent decree established in 2001 with the Department of Justice and state Attorneys General. He served as the Senior Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft Corporation since November 2001 and was responsible for its Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs. He joined Microsoft in 1993. He played a leading role at Microsoft on intellectual property, competition law and other Internet legal and public policy issues. He led negotiations that resulted in nine state Attorneys General dropping their antitrust appeal against Microsoft in 2002. He was also responsible for the negotiation of agreements in 2002 with the Federal Trade Commission and European Commission covering privacy and security requirements for Microsoft 's Passport online-authentication service. He oversaw Microsoft 's 2003 to 2005 negotiations that resolved its differences with AOL Time Warner, Sun Microsystems, Intertrust, Novell and CCIA and IBM. He helped spearhead Microsoft's global campaigns for enforcement actions against those engaged in illegal spamming, virus creation and software counterfeiting. He led efforts to revise Microsoft's contracts to make them more customer-friendly and has strengthened its legal compliance programs, issuing new Standards of Business Conduct for all Microsoft employees and creating a new Office of Legal Compliance. He worked for five years as Deputy General Counsel for Worldwide Sales and before that, he served for three years managing Microsoft's European Law and Corporate Affairs group, based in Paris. Before joining Microsoft, he was a Partner at Covington & Burling and worked in Washington DC and London offices and represented a number of companies in the computing industry. He serves as a Member of Executive Council at TechNet. He has been a Director of Netflix, Inc. since March 2015. He has written numerous articles regarding international intellectual property and electronic commerce issues and has served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. He graduated summa cum laude holds a BA in International Relations and Economics from Princeton University, where he received the Class of 1901 Medal, the Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize and the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Award, the highest award given to a graduating senior at commencement. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and holds JD from the Columbia University School of Law, where he received the David M. Berger Memorial Award. He also studied International Law and Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.