Alistair Maiden
CEO and Founder
Alistair founded SYKE in 2016 after developing a passion for legal technology.
He was Head of Contracts and Data Protection Officer for the UK retailer, ASDA. At ASDA, Alistair designed and implemented a digital contracting tool which reduced the average contract cycle from 17 days to just 5 days.
Alistair thought there was a need for legal engineers to be an interface between legal teams and emerging legal tech.
In 2016 Alistair left ASDA and formed SYKE.
Lewis Bretts
Chief Legal Engineer & COO
Lewis is an expert in legal operations, technology and deployment strategy. He has led consultancy projects and technology deployments for large, and complex, global organisations such as Capita, Amadeus, and Unilever. As Chief Legal Engineer and COO, Lewis oversees delivery of all our projects and is responsible for ensuring we meet the needs of our clients. Lewis joined SYKE from practice at the Commercial Bar where he specialised in information and technology. He was appointed to Attorney General’s panel of counsel in 2018 and acted for central government, large corporates and major retailers.
John Buxton
VP Business Development
John joined SYKE in June 2019 and is responsible for new business development, including forging strategic partnerships with software providers, and generating new business opportunities through his extensive network. Formerly a senior vice president at Walmart’s Asda in the UK, John has a background in consultancy for GE Capital, and manufacturing including Heinz, Nestle and Coca-Cola.
Dom Burch
VP Marketing
In addition to a background in public relations and strategic communications, Dom has a passion for social media and helps companies define their strategy, up-skill their in-house teams and recruit new talent. As a volunteer, he chairs the management committee of an award winning community radio station in his adopted home city of Bradford called BCB 106.6fm. He joined SYKE in June 2019 to lead its marketing efforts and hosts its weekly podcast, Legal Tech Made Simple.
Anna Lolua
Head of Legal Innovation and Design
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Anna is one of the world’s leading experts on HighQ and Contract Express, advising corporate legal teams and law firms on how to procure and implement legal technology. Anna helps bridge the gap between IT and legal, with a proven track record of delivering sophisticated matter management, CLM, process and document automation solutions to all sectors of the market.
Anna has assembled and led legal engineering teams in multiple jurisdictions, is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer and an MBA qualified business consultant.
Joanne Chuang
Head of APAC
Joanne is a former head of Unilever’s Smarter Contracting Project and General Counsel Malaysia.
Joanne led Unilever’s implementation of digital contracting tool Spring CM and AI projects using KM Standards and eBrevia.
She is a world leading expert in Legal BOTs, most recently delivering legal FAQ BOTs to a multinational FMCG business. Joanne is fluent in Malay, Bahasa and Cantonese.
Simon Hurst
Head of Financial Services
Simon joined SYKE from Barclays where he was head of transaction management for corporate banking. In this role Simon was responsible for procuring an implementing a suite of legal technology to help enhance operational efficiency and customer experience. He harnessed solutions such as DocuSign, Contract Express, and SEAL to transform business activity and solve business problems. A lawyer by trade, he qualified into the banking practice at Allen & Overy.
Jamie Goldrich
Director of Native Solutions
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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 customer. In December 2020 he was promoted to SYKE’s Director of Native Solutions.
During his time at SYKE, Jamie has developed a practice specialising in the development and integration of legal technology on native enterprise solutions, including Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Google Workspace and Salesforce, servicing a range of FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and Fortune 500 enterprises.
Jamie provides customers with strategic direction, alongside managing a team of highly skilled legal engineers and developers, who operate across multiple jurisdictions.
Adam Dessurne
Head of Enterprise CLM Practice
Adam was previously head of CLM at 4C, Europe’s largest independent Salesforce Platinum Partner, where he grew a team specialising in CLM. Adam has vast experience of delivering enterprise scale projects, and a wealth of SpringCM, DocuSign and Salesforce technical expertise.
By combining commercial, legal, CLM and CRM experience, Adam helps SYKE’s clients create a seamless and integrated agreement processes across their businesses.
Adrian Stafford
Senior Legal Engineer
Adrian is a solicitor with nearly thirty years’ experience in document automation. During his career he has created systems for law firms such as Linklaters, Allen and Overy and Eversheds as well as a wide variety of corporates. He has automated with five different products including Exari. Adrian worked for Business Integrity, the creators of Contract Express, for nine years.
Jonny Badrock
Head of Data Services
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Jonny joined SYKE from DWF where he was Head of Research and Development, helping clients and lawyers to identify, design and test new ideas or services with a prominent focus on harnessing technology. He led the delivery of a wide range of automation and data projects which have saved over 20,000 lawyer hours.
Jonny understands the pain points and challenges of implementing legal technology and is a firm believer in harnessing data to enable insight-driven decision making. His primary focus at SYKE is helping our customers to unlock value from their data.
