Nick Cranfield is the Global Director of Legal Operations at Dyson. Since joining Dyson in June 2017 he’s been responsible for building out a global Compliance and Ethics function. Amongst other things, this involved the development and launch of a new Code of Conduct. Nick was also responsible for preparing Dyson for GDPR and took…
This week I had the opportunity to speak to Jim Delkousis, CEO and founder at Persuit. After graduating with his law degree, Jim began working at one of Australia’s leading law firms, Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He quickly made his way up the ranks, getting promoted to Senior Associate in 1995, and Partner in 1999. For…
SYKE is delighted to announce the promotion of senior legal engineer, Jamie Goldrich, to the position of director of native solutions. Jamie joined SYKE in June 2018 as its first junior legal engineer and was promoted to senior legal engineer in March 2019 following the delivery of a global CLM solution for a major enterprise…
In this episode, I was delighted to speak to a legal tech superstar, Jim Wagner, who has been innovating in the sector for 20 years. Having trained in law, Jim practised as a lawyer for ten years before transitioning to the business side of things. Jim tells us about his journey into Seal (now part…
HSBC is one of the most complex matrix organisations globally, it is many different businesses rolled into one and inherent in that is, of course, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. There are different legacy systems being used for different processes. Over recent months, SYKE has managed the bank’s HighQ implementation, including end-to-end design and configuration…
This episode I caught up with Sheila Gormley Co-founder and Exec VP Legal Division at Repstor. Repstor says it transforms and simplifies Microsoft 365 Information Management, and specialises in optimising Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams productivity and information control for businesses worldwide. It aims to harness the investment companies have already made in these platforms,…
SYKE is delighted to announce the appointment of Thomas Mellor to the role of programme delivery director. He joins SYKE from Yoti Sign, an eSigning business, where he led e-signature adoption across multiple enterprise clients. Thomas said: “I’m excited to join SYKE at the apex of accelerating legal tech adoption. For the last few years, legal tech has been interesting but it is now getting to the…
Springer Nature has been on a fascinating legal tech journey over the past 12 months. A relatively small team of four lawyers are now able to focus on doing high-value work, as business users self-serve 95% of contracts. There’ve been huge savings in time, the equivalent of 50 days saved in the first half of…
Life as a busy general counsel is stressful enough without the added dread of not having everything you need at the touch of a button. We’ve all been there. A crisis strikes, the executive board demands to know what the impact is, where the problems are, how big the risk is, and what mitigating action…
In this episode I speak to Don Keller, CEO and founder at Joinder. Don is a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick, and a member of the Technology Companies Group. He advises high-growth technology companies, public companies, venture capital firms and investment banks. He has advised clients on more than 60 public offerings,…