Speakers
Netlaw Media are delighted to present the Keynote Speakers and Chairpersons for the London Law Expo 2017 / European Legal Security Forum.
The Agendas are currently in production. Further speakers will be announced in the upcoming weeks’.
London Law Expo Speakers
Prof. Stephen Mayson
Honorary Professor of Law
University College London
For more than 30 years, Professor Stephen Mayson has advised law firms around the world on issues of strategy, economics, ownership, and valuation. He has a particular interest in the reconfiguration of the legal world being driven by competition and the Legal S…
Jeff Nischwitz
President
The Nischwitz Group
From successful large law firm partner to founder of his own entrepreneurial law firm, Jeff Nischwitz successfully built a client base while practicing law and building a law firm. Jeff has “walked the walk” as a large firm partner, as a solo practitioner, an…
Gerd Leonhard
Futurist & Keynote Speaker, Author, Future Strategist & CEO
The Futures Agency
Technology and Humanity: the next 10 years (and why the future is better than you may think) Humans and technology are increasingly intertwining: bots that understand natural language and can ‘learn’, intelligent digital assistants handling an…
Ian Jeffery
Chief Executive
Lewis Silkin LLP
Ian Jeffery is the Chief Executive of Lewis Silkin LLP having previously been the Managing Partner. He combines skills and experience as a specialist IP and technology lawyer with over a decade of senior management experience and an MBA from a London Business…
Janet Day
Independent Consultant
Janet has worked in the broad sphere of legal IT virtually all her working life – even her MBA speciality was ‘Competitive Advantage in the Legal Profession’. After working in administration at A&O, Janet set up a specialist consultancy practice look…
Jason Plant
Head of Lawyer Technology
DLA Piper
Jason is Head of Lawyer Technology at DLA Piper. After starting his IT career in the utilities industry, Jason now has twenty years’ experience in Legal IT. He began the legal IT journey as a developer working on case management software for personal injury clai…
Brandon Ransley
UK Managing Partner
Dentons
Brandon Ransley is the UK Managing Partner of Dentons having been in the role since 1 December 2010. As such, working closely with the CEO for the UK & Middle East offices he is responsible for the implementation of the firm’s strategy in the UK. He is…
David Morley
Chairman
Elaghmore LLP
Winning three successive leadership elections, David led Allen & Overy LLP 2003-16. During his leadership revenue close to doubled from £666m to £1.28bn (2005-15) with profits up 133% from £245m to £579m over the same period; including seven consecut…
Jane Bradbury
Head of Knowledge & Information
Slaughter & May
Jane is responsible for the Knowledge & Information department at Slaughter and May and is part of the Business Services Leadership Team. The department includes both a central team and a team embedded in various fee earning parts of the business. Increasin…
Jay Connolly
Global Chief Talent Officer
Dentons
Jay Connolly is the Global Chief Talent Officer for Dentons and responsible for the human resources, recruiting and learning/professional development functions, delivering best practices and ensuring consistent standards across all geographies. He advi…
Tony Reid
CTO, Financial Services Business Unit
Hitachi
Tony Reid has performed many different roles in his 25 year career with Hitachi from General Manager of the UK business to managing the integration of a South African acquisition. Reid is currently the CTO of Hitachi Data Systems Financial Services Business Unit…
David Anderson
Head of Corporate Services / Company Secretary
St John's Buildings Ltd
David joined St John’s Buildings (SJB) in 2008 after five years working at the Bar Council in roles including remuneration policy and as Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Bar. His experience includes working on the Bar Council team responsible for the…
Iain Johnston
Chief Operating Officer
Hill Dickinson LLP
Iain has enjoyed over 25 years in leading fast growing or rapidly changing people businesses. In a career spanning technology, marketing, and professional services firms, including 3 IPOs, Iain has been founder, CEO, Chairman and Non-Executive Director in a r…
Clare Kennedy
Regional Chief Operating Officer for Western Europe (excl. UK and Germany)
Linklaters
A chartered accountant with 25 years’ experience within leading professional services organisations. Clare has spent the last 17 years providing strategic, financial and commercial advice to the business through various roles within Linklaters. Pr…
Steven Rowan
Chief Financial Officer
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
Steve qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Touche Ross & Co (now Deloitte) in London before moving initially to a small merchant bank where he acted as the FD’s financial projects resource. He followed that FD to Dentons and then spent the next 11 ye…
Edward Gordon-Hall
Head of Finance
Edwin Coe
Having initially qualified as an accountant with Moores Rowland International, Edward Gordon-Hall moved into law in 1998 and has since held FD/CFO roles with Lewis Silkin and Olswang. In addition he was Practice Director at Kilburn & Strode, a firm of paten…
Jonathan Patterson
Managing Director & Head of Development
DWF Ventures
As Managing Director and Head of Development at DWF Ventures, Jonathan is responsible for generating new ideas, delivering R&D priorities and supporting early growth services. In a rapidly changing legal market his major focus is working with clients to d…
Sadie Baron
Chief Marketing Officer
Reed Smith
With the firm fighting at its best, Reed Smith’s Chief Marketing Officer, Sadie Baron’s mission is to tell the world the Reed Smith story, and for those who know Sadie, know she won’t stop until she does. For Sadie, it’s using her 15-year…
Ian Connett
Legal Director
Collective
Ian Connett, Esq. is currently the Legal Director of Collective, a major ad-tech company focusing on programmatic and data driven advertising. Prior to joining Collective, Ian served as the Corporate Counsel of Westcon Group, a $6B global technology di…
Karl Chapman
CEO
Riverview Law
Karl is Chief Executive of Riverview Law and has a long pedigree in starting, growing and managing successful companies. After reading law at Birmingham University, Karl joined Guinness Mahon Investment Management (GMIM) in 1985. In 1987 he was Money Observer…
Kerry Westland
Head of Innovation and Legal Technology
Addleshaw Goddard
Kerry is responsible for driving the use of technology and developing solutions to deliver a wide range of legal work across the Addleshaw Goddard. She set up and manages the Innovation and Legal Technology Team who focus solely on innovative ways of working and t…
Mike Osbourne
Executive Chairman
Databarracks
Mike Osborne has a 30 year career in IT & Risk most recently as the Managing Director of Business Continuity, Cloud & Hosting at UK Company Daisy Group Ltd. During this time Mike was responsible for growing a fledgling Disaster Recovery company into one of…
Matthew Newton
Operations Director
Oosha
Matthew is Operations Director and co-founder of Oosha Ltd, a leading cloud desktop and managed IT service provider for the legal sector. Matthew regularly advises law firms on the most effective IT strategies to help them modernise, stay compliant and manag…
Chris Butlin
Director - Professional Services CIM
Pitney Bowes
Chris Butlin is director of professional services for Customer Information Management at Pitney Bowes. Chris is responsible for setting the vision and plan for the CIM Professional Services organisation, executing an innovative and efficient approach to he…
Adam Stewart
Director, Technical Services
Introhive
Adam has over 20 years’ experience helping professional services firms & Fortune 500 companies be more productive while generating more revenue. Adam currently leads marketing and sales enablement efforts at Introhive. Introhive’s Relations…
Graham Richardson
Head of Consulting / Partner
Eversheds
Graham is the Head of Eversheds Sutherland Consulting which was launched in 2011. A qualified lawyer for over 20 years and a litigator by background, Graham has been a Partner with Eversheds Sutherland for more than 16 years and sits on the Eversheds Sutherland Se…
Sheila Gormley
Director of Business Development
Repstor
Sheila has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, 15 of which have been working with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution companies, specialising in Legal and Regulated markets. A computing science graduate from the University of Ulster, She…
Barry Talbot
Managing Director
Informance
Barry Talbot is the managing director of Informance – a Qlik Elite Solution Provider with extensive knowledge of the legal sector. His role is to deliver the Qlik platform to law firms who want to stay ahead of the competition and improve efficiency, produc…
Geoff Hornsby
General Manager, EMEA
iManage
Geoff is the General Manager for iManage in EMEA. In this role he looks after all operations in EMEA including development, support, sales, partner management and marketing. Geoff was part of the original iManage team and has been with the company for 15 years. Pr…
Fraser Mayfield
Programme Director - EMEA
Iridium Technology LLC
Fraser Mayfield is a leading technologist with 15 years experience working in the global legal market, with a proven track record of bringing complex enterprise software to market. As Director of EMEA for Iridium Technology he works closely with the growing num…
Emily Foges
CEO
Luminance
Emily has 20 years’ experience of growing and scaling up technology-led businesses. First as a management consultant, and then with Betfair, BT and Equifax, she built teams to drive acquisition strategy and then delivered the integration, including the dev…
Connor Kinnear
CMO
Passle
Connor Kinnear is a marketer with over 15 years of experience, from blue chip companies to tech startups. Connor has worked and consulted with some of the biggest brands in the world, helping them to drive deeper engagement with their customers through social med…
Andy Tipton
Mobile Product Manager
Appurity
Andrew has more than 20 years’ experience as a leader in the IT industry, with roles including product management, agile development IT, partner management and software sales. Andrew leads the product and development team. He helps customers develop their a…
Barry Vickery
General Manager of Corporate Services
InfoTrack
Barry Vickery is the General Manager of Corporate Services and has over 20 years’ experience in providing innovative solutions to the corporate market in the UK and Australia. Barry joined the InfoTrack UK team in June 2016 and is responsible for the strategic…
Rachel Khiara
Partner
RSM
Rachel Khiara is a Partner at RSM Legal LLP and head of the corporate and partnerships legal team. She advises on innovative and high-profile transactions in the regulated legal sector, and has a notable specialism in advising SRA regulated multi-disciplinary…
Ben Nicholson
Director of Strategy
sharedo by slicedbread
Ben Nicholson is co-founder of slicedbread and is the Director of Strategy for the innovative case and matter management platform, sharedo. Ben has more than 20 years’ experience. Starting his career at PwC, Ben has been involved in a series of technology star…
Steve Marshall
Chief Operating Officer
Risk-X
Steve is a world class consultant and business executive that has focused on high profile projects for the government and leading commercial organisations. Steve specialises in business consulting, payments, compliance, breach clean-up, enterprise archi…
Richard Tucker
Managing Director
Peerless IT
Richard started life as an Engineer in Australia’s telecommunications provider before progressing to the role of Telecommunications Manager for the city of Canberra, the capital of Australia, with responsibility for the telecommunications of 14,000 gov…
Irmantas Levanas
Account Executive, EMEA
Clio
Irmantas Levanas is an Account Executive in Clio’s EMEA office. He spends every day talking to UK and European lawyers, understanding their pain points, and offering sound advice and solutions on how they can improve the efficiency of their practice. Irm…
European Legal Security Forum Speakers
Graham Cluley
Security Analyst
grahamcluley.com
Graham Cluley is an award-winning security blogger, researcher and public speaker. He has been a well-known figure in the computer security industry since the early 1990s when he worked as a programmer, writing the first ever version of Dr Solomon’s Anti-Vir…
Sir John Sawers
Former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service
Sir John Sawers is the former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6). During his tenure, he modernised the Service and led it through major changes in operations, technology, and public accountability. In presentations, Sawe…
FC
CEO
Redacted Firm
FC is a well-known ethical hacker and social engineer. He started at a young age when computers were growing in popularity and the hacker scene was in its infancy. He has been working in the infosec field for over 20 years and excels at circumventing access controls…
Mo Cashman
Principle Engineer
McAfee
Mo Cashman is one of McAfee’s passionate leaders in cyber security. As a Principle Engineer and at McAfee, Mo inspires our next generation security professionals, helps drive company technical strategy and advises our largest global customers on cyber secu…
Amar Singh
Founder, Cyber Management Alliance
Chair, ISACA’s UK Security Advisory Group
Amar Singh is an industry influencer and leader, founder of a not-for-profit organisation Give01Day.com and the Cyber Management Alliance and Chair of ISACA’s UK Security Advisory Group. Amar is engaged as a trusted business and cyber security advisor, men…
Peter Wright
Solicitor & Managing Director
DigitalLawUK
Peter Wright is a Solicitor and leading expert in Data Protection, Cyber Security and Social Media Law. As Managing Director of DigitalLawUK, he advises clients from across the UK, Europe, Middle East and North America and has a strong following in the creative a…
Sue Diver
Head of Information Security & Data Protection
Clarke Willmott
Sue moved to the Legal Services arena when she joined Clarke Willmott in April 2016. Prior to that she spent most of her career within major financial services organisations creating holistic and cross functional teams to provide strategic information secu…
Brennan Torregrossa
Vice President & Associate General Counsel
GlaxoSmithKline
Brennan Torregrossa is Vice President and Associate General Counsel in GlaxoSmithKline’s litigation department. Brennan also serves as the Head of GSK’s Global External Legal Relations Team (GELRT). GELRT is a cross functional team devoted to secu…
Antonio Suarez-Martinez
Assistant General Counsel
GlaxoSmithKline
Antonio Suarez-Martinez started his career as a trainee at DJ Freeman qualifying in 2002 and becoming a Partner in the Commercial Litigation Department at Edwards Wildman law firm in 2011 where he acted for Governments on public international, arbitral and ass…
Ian Hughes
Analyst, Internet of Things
451 Research Ltd
Ian Hughes is an Internet of Things analyst at 451 Research, with over 28 years of experience in emerging technology as a developer, architect and consultant. Ian was early to the Web development space in 1998, social media in 2004, and influential in virtual-wor…
Mark Leiser
Lecturer in Law
University of Leicester
Mark Leiser is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester and has lectured Internet Governance, Intellectual Property, and Privacy/Crime/Security on the Masters Programme, and Intellectual Property, Company and Commercial Law to the undergraduates a…
Jenny Radcliffe
Founder, Jenny Radcliffe
Head of Social Engineering, Training & Consultancy
Jenny Radcliffe is an expert in Social Engineering (the human element of security), negotiations, non-verbal communication and deception. She speaks, consults and trains people in the skills of “people hacking” and explains how “Social Engineer…
Joel Windels
VP of Marketing
Wandera
Joel is VP Marketing at Wandera, one of the fastest-growing mobile security companies in the world. Wandera provides Enterprise Mobile Security and Data Management for hundreds of global businesses, including KPMG, Bloomberg and Deloitte. Prior to joining W…
Dave Mahon
Chief Security Officer
CenturyLink
David (Dave) Mahon was appointed Chief Security Officer for CenturyLink, Inc. in April 2011. He is responsible for enterprise wide security strategy, information security, cyber defense, critical infrastructure protection, physical security, network fr…
Dave Palmer
Director of Technology
Darktrace
Dave Palmer is a cyber security technical expert with over ten years’ experience at the forefront of government intelligence operations. He has worked across UK intelligence agencies GCHQ and MI5, where he delivered mission-critical infrastructure s…
