In our latest podcast, Dom talks to Christophe Frèrebeau, the co-founder and CEO of Della, a European tech company based in Paris and London whose mission is to democratise the use of AI. Della’s typical customers are legal departments who want more consistency in the way they manage their contracts, particularly as teams increasingly work…
We regularly speak to in-house GCs who see the benefits of adopting new technology, but they simply can’t get off the starting blocks. They’re faced with a myriad of confusing and often competing choices – the Legal Tech noise can be deafening. To help you find your way we, along with our new Legal Operations partner LOD, have explored some of the most…
Magle Chemoswed is a contract development and manufacturing organization based in Sweden. It serves companies in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry on a contract basis to provide services from product development to manufacturing. It has a strong track record of successfully bringing their own and customer products to market. Megi Medzmariashvilli, Legal Counsel at Magle Chemoswed, is…
SYKE is delighted to announce the appointment of Amanda Bradley to the role of Sales Director. Amanda will be responsible for developing the Sales and Marketing functions within SYKE to support the exponential growth of the business. The appointment follows the recent investment by LOD in SYKE to support the further growth and development of…
Olga V. Mack, CEO & Chairwoman of Parley Pro, a modern, (and truly!) collaborative and intuitive contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that has pioneered online negotiation technology. Olga loves legal innovation and has dedicated her career to improving and shaping the future of law. She’s convinced the legal profession will emerge even stronger, more resilient,…
In this episode, I caught up with Agiloft’s new (ish) CEO, Eric Laughlin. He tells me all about the company’s recent $45m investment. Bootstrapped since its inception in 1990 and profitable, this is the company’s first round of external funding and will be used to accelerate its product development and expand its vertical and geographic…
One of the things I’m most proud of as the CEO at SYKE is being able to give young, gifted students a foot up onto the first rung of the career ladder. In the first of a series of blogs featuring some of our rising stars, I’d like to introduce you to Alfie Thackeray. Alfie is a legal engineer who has been with SYKE…
Pieter van der Hoeven and Bram Fokke founded Clocktimizer together in 2014. Since then they’ve grown the team to 19 employees. Pieter set the groundwork for Clocktimizer at university in Utrecht where he studied law. Upon completing his Masters in Law, Pieter went to work for the international law firm DLA Piper. It was during…
This week I had the pleasure of speaking to Stephen Ball, CEO at Boost Legal. Stephen is a General Counsel by trade, with 25 years’ ‘hands-on’ in-house experience for companies across the US, EU, Middle East, Russia and Africa. He has a strong track record of international leadership, designing, managing and coaching high-performing legal, risk…
This week I had the pleasure of catching up with Olga Gezha, who leads the SYKE presence in Russia. Olga was a customer of SYKE’s when she led a team at Pizza Hut UK, having previously worked within the Yum! brands in Russia at KFC before relocating to London. She has since returned to Russia…