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
Senior Legal Engineer
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Anna is an experienced corporate lawyer having worked in-house in Russia and the UK. She is the former director of mergers and acquisitions at Polyplastic Gro.
Anna is currently on a secondment at a major international bank, tasked with the selection and implementation of a contract lifecycle management tool. With an MBA in business administration from Imperial College, Anna has assembled and led legal engineering teams in multiple jurisdictions.
Joanne Chuang
Head of Data Services, Triage, and Matter Management
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
Senior Legal Engineer
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
Senior Legal Engineer
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Jamie managed a global project team of consultants, LPOs and lawyers across to deliver legal technology solutions at Unilever, notably an end-to-end CLM solution called Contracts4U (Spring CM) and Click to Accept contracting (DocuSign).
Jamie is currently on an engagement with a global information company where he is responsible for managing the implementation of a Salesforce integrated digital contracting tool.
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.
David Law
Head of Document Automation
David is one of SYKE’s longest serving members and has delivered automation projects for four of the UK’s top 20 law firms, plus international firms in both North America and Africa (Springer Nature and L3).
David was previously engaged as a commercial real estate legal executive at DWF, before training as a legal engineer in 2014. He was instrumental in the development of DWF’s document automation service “DWF Draft”.
