Near Intelligence, Inc. has appointed its General Counsel, Jay Angelo, to also serve as the company's Chief Privacy Officer. Jay is a technology attorney with over 15 years of legal, compliance, and operational experience, advising private and public companies. Prior to Near, Jay was at Apple, where he was responsible for the strategic use of data and analytics in Legal operations.

He has built and managed legal, compliance, and risk teams from the ground up for both start-ups and established public companies, and was at a $1.2B division of Smiths Group plc. Jay is experienced in technology drafting, negotiations (SaaS, vendor, joint ventures, partnerships), and the legal/compliance aspects of global go-to-market strategy with agents and distributors in international markets, M&A transactions, privacy-GDPR, corporate governance for private and public companies, and complex litigation.