Sheetal Sawhney Kapur joins Amazon as Head – Payments and Privacy Legal
Erstwhile Director – Legal at Netflix, Sheetal Sawhney Kapur has joined Amazon as their Head – Payments and Privacy Legal. She will be leading AmazonPay and all other payments and privacy assignments for the company.
Sheetal held the position of Director – Core Legal for India and South Asia regions at Netflix where she was involved in growing partnerships, managing the technology platform and developing payments related infrastructure for the brand. She was also the Designated Partner for Netflix’s India entity. Sheetal, through these years, has had an illustrious legal career, essentially in the technology space, wherein she has worked on key projects with the tech giant Google.
Prior to joining Google, she saw the immense potential in the digital payments space in India, that led her to join PayU Payments in 2013. Sheetal started her career at Fasken Martineau LLP, one of the top law firms in Toronto, Canada. She moved to India in 2011 and worked at J Sagar and Associates in the private equity and M&A practice. Post her stint at Google, she moved to Netflix in 2019.
Sheetal holds a Masters degree in Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne. She had pursued her LLB from ILS Law College in Pune.In terms of industry representations, she is an Executive Committee Member- Privacy and Data Protection for the Indian National Bar Association, Member of the CII Task Force on Legal Services for 2020 and 2021 and Chair for the Sub-Committee on IT and ITES of the CII Task Force on Legal Services for 2021
Sheetal has won several awards for her work in the technology and payments space such as Legal Era’s Star Women in Law, BW Legal “40 Under 40”, BW Legal Top 100 GCs, Forbes Top 100 GCs Powerlist, “Top 100 Powerful Women in Law” by the World IP Forum and “India’s Top 30 GCs and Chief Legal Officers 2020” by LawSikho.