Eric Winston

Eric Winston is responsible for Mphasis’ global legal and compliance function and policies. He has spent nearly twenty years guiding international, market-leading, public, and private equity-owned IT companies.

Prior to Mphasis, Eric served for two years as Vice President - Legal, at Syntel, Inc., an IT services company, where he was responsible for advising executive management on a wide range of matters including domestic and international, strategic and commercial transactions, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, employment, business development, corporate governance, and compliance.

From 2002 through 2015, Eric served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of INTTRA, Inc., the world’s largest electronic transactional platform for the ocean shipping industry. His responsibilities included functions such as worldwide legal, privacy, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, intellectual property, patent strategy, and compliance activities, as well as government and regulatory affairs. He also managed INTTRA's human resources department. Eric joined INTTRA in 2001 as Director of Business Planning and Projects and was appointed as General Counsel in 2002.

Prior to INTTRA, Eric served as Director of Business Development for Newark-based Net2Phone, Inc., a leader in delivering voice services over data networks. Before working with Net2Phone, he served as Director of Strategic Relations for Inlumen, Inc., a web-based application service provider and content aggregator for the financial services industry, in New York City.

From 1996 through 1999, Eric was in private practice in New York City, where he specialized in complex civil litigation matters. From 1989 through 1994, Eric served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York.

Eric received his Juris Doctorate at the Emory University School of Law and his bachelor of arts degree in economics from Vassar College.