Rashmi Chandra
Rashmi Chandra
Executive Director and Head Counsel Intellectual Property, at Aetna, Inc. | United States of America (USA)
Profile Summary
Rashmi Chandra heads up the Intellectual Property/Information Technology law practice group at Aetna Inc., one of the nation’s premier provider of health care, dental, pharmacy, disability insurance. She oversees all legal and strategic enforcement and maintenance issues relating to the Aetna enterprise and its subsidiaries’ intellectual property assets. In addition, her work focuses on brand counseling, IP licensing, advertising reviews, data security, technology, and software legal issues, oversight of the patent portfolio and social media.
Rashmi graduated with a J.D. as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar from Columbia Law School and an LL.M from Northwestern University School of Law. She began her career as an IP transactional attorney at Kirkland & Ellis for eight years in Chicago and subsequently joined W.W. Grainger, Inc. as Senior Corporate Counsel before joining Aetna.