Madhu Goel Southworth
Madhu Goel Southworth is Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs, Advertising & Marketing at NBCU. She leads a bi-coastal team of lawyers and non-lawyers responsible for cutting-edge experiential, digital, print, and video marketing and integrated marketing matters across Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, Focus Features, Illumination, Peacock, as well as Bravo, Syfy, Oxygen, USA, and E!. Prior to joining NBCU in June of 2023, Madhu worked at AMC, an independent cable channel, which included other channels and streaming services such as Sundance TV, IFC TV, WetV. In that capacity, she and her staff advised and counseled AMC's business departments with respect to digital and non-scripted development and production matters, consumer products, licensing, gaming, location based entertainment, intellectual property and other business affairs matters concerning AMC's top shows like The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Mad Men. Prior to working at AMC, Madhu was at A&E Television Networks as Director, Legal and Business Affairs providing counsel and negotiating development, production, and talent agreements for both their unscripted and documentary departments. Madhu graduated from University of Chicago Law in 2001 and joined Sidley & Austin as an associate. Prior to Sidley, Madhu completed a federal judicial clerkship in the Southern District of New York for the Honorable George Daniels. Madhu is a frequent speaker at national conferences on entertainment related issues and women in the profession. When not working, Madhu loves spending time with her family and friends.