Vaishali is Vice President, Associate General Counsel for Litigation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In addition to handling commercial and employment litigation matters, her team handles all of HPE’s IP litigation, including patent, copyright, IP licensing and trade secret claims. She is a winner of the HPE Women’s Excellence Award, recognizing extraordinary women across HPE, the recipient of the National Bar Association’s 2020 Diversity in Tech and IP Award, DCA Live’s Top Corporate Counsel Award, and for the past five years, Managing Intellectual Property named her a “Corporate IP Star.” Prior to joining HP in 2011, Vaishali was an associate at Jones Day and Pennie & Edmonds. She earned her J.D. from American University's Washington College of Law, and her B.S., in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia.