Stephane is a Senior Manager in the Contract Management team at Amadeus and has a background in engineering. He’s been with the company for more than ten years and leads the Contract Management team worldwide. He is responsible for strategic vision, helping the company drive efficiencies in contract management, including how to build and manage…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
In this episode, I catch up with Horace Wu, Managing Director at Syntheia. Syntheia’s mission is to make life easy for lawyers and to help them do their best work. In practice, that means Syntheia has designed its software to fit existing workflows. Horace and his team talk to law firms, understand: how are they…
In this episode, I interview Matt Peacock from OMC Partners. Matt specialises in improving legal operations, and has designed legal strategies and implemented a range of legal delivery models, leveraging his deep experience in legal process redesign, resourcing technology, risk management, and project management. Matt explains the “eye-opening” value doing an MBA has brought to…