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Advisory Board
Simon Blackwell
Head of Legal
BT
Simon Blackwell
Head of Legal
BT
I qualified in 2006 at the Department for Trade and Industry into a commercial/procurement role. I stayed at the DTI for two years before moving into private practice in the London office of Bevan Brittan LLP, undertaking NHS commercial work. I moved back in-house in 2011 when I joined the BT commercial team working on the major NHS IT programme, at that time (and perhaps since) the biggest peace-time IT project in history. I worked on that project for two years, before becoming head of the legal team in a niche practice within BT Security that dealt in BT’s regulatory requirements as a telecommunications services provider as well as cyber solutions. Since then I have added the BT Defence and broader BT Security legal teams. I have an exciting, challenging role managing against a backdrop of a BT in flux and a booming security market.
Vanya Bromfield
General Counsel
Smiths Group Plc
Vanya Bromfield
General Counsel
Smiths Group Plc
Vanya Bromfield is the General Counsel for Business Information Services at Smiths Group Plc (FTSE 100) and is also a member of the senior leadership team for the function. Vanya has over 10 years of industry experience, across both public and private sector. Vanya has extensive experience advising customers on large scale IT outsourcing and project implementations with a particular focus on SaaS and agile projects. She was also Co-Chair of Smiths Global GDPR Implementation Programme. Vanya is passionate about social mobility and diversity & inclusion and has served as a trustee for a social mobility charity.
Rebecca Danby
Assistant General Counsel
GSK
Rebecca Danby
Assistant General Counsel
GSK
Rebecca Danby is an Assistant General Counsel at GSK. She supports the Consumer Healthcare business, leading the teams that support the global R&D division and the Commercial businesses in Great Britain & Ireland, the Nordics and Benelux. She carries out a general counsel-style role and therefore assists them with any legal issues that may come their way from competition law or advertising law issues to litigation or corporate acquisitions and disposals.
Rebecca joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2010 after spending nearly 11 years at the international law firm Simmons & Simmons, where she practised corporate law. Rebecca was called to the bar in 1999 and became dual-qualified as a solicitor in 2003.
Rebecca received her degree in jurisprudence from Balliol College, Oxford in 1998 and completed the Bar Vocational Course in 1999. When not at work, Rebecca sings in a choir and is a keen amateur photographer.
Philip Goodstone
Head of Law UK&I
EY
Philip Goodstone
Head of Law UK&I
EY
Jonathan Lipman
Group General Counsel
Mercedes-Benz UK – Legal Department
Jonathan Lipman
Group General Counsel
Mercedes-Benz UK – Legal Department
Jonathan Lipman has been Group General Counsel at Mercedes-Benz UK since November 2013. He leads a team of 12 who provide a wide variety of legal advice to the Mercedes-Benz Group in the UK. It operates wholesale, retail, finance and insurance business across the passenger car, van, truck and bus markets. Jonathan’s team also advises the high performance powertrains business (F1 engines). Before working for Mercedes-Benz, Jonathan was Head of Legal Affairs for seven years at PSA Peugeot Citroen.
Maria Passemard
Partner & Head of Legal Operations
John Lewis
Maria Passemard
Partner & Head of Legal Operations
John Lewis
Maria Passemard is the Head of Legal Operations for the John Lewis Partnership. She has held this role for 2.5 years. The Legal Team within the John Lewis Partnership supports the following areas, Employment, Commercial, Property and Co–Sec. There are a total of 25 in the Legal team including support staff, paralegals and Co-Sec.
Maria is an employment lawyer by background and has also worked for The John Lewis Partnership as their Head of Legal – Employment. Prior to that Maria worked in a Knowledge Management and Training role at Pinsent Masons. She has been a Partner in a Law firm and has worked for National and Global Law firms.
Maria works in London, lives in Rugby, Warwickshire and has two young children to keep her on her toes!
The John Lewis Partnership
The John Lewis Partnership's 84,000 Partners own the leading UK retail businesses - John Lewis and Waitrose. Our founder's vision of a successful business powered by its people and its principles defines our unique company today. The profits and benefits created by our success are shared by all our Partners.
Suzanne Rodway
Head of Legal Operations & Privacy
Royal Bank of Scotland
Suzanne Rodway
Head of Legal Operations & Privacy
Royal Bank of Scotland
Suzanne is currently Head of Legal Operations and Group DPO for RBS.
She trained with global law firm Linklaters, where after completing a number of years in the TMT Telecoms, moved in-house role to advise the firm on its own privacy and information risk management issues.
With the experience gained in this role Suzanne then undertook a secondment to Barclays as their interim Head of data Protection. She joined Barclays permanently in December 2006 as their Privacy Director within the Legal & Compliance team. For the last 2 years of her role at Barclays she was also Chair of the British Banker’s Association (now UK Finance) Data Protection Advisory Panel. In 2009, under Suzanne’s leadership Barclays were awarded a Privacy Innovation award by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. For the last 2 years she also had responsibility for Compliance Operations and Global Sharestakes.
Suzanne left Barclays to join NBCUniversal as their Chief Privacy Officer. In 2012 Suzanne joined RBS as the Head of Privacy, and was promoted to the Head of Legal Operations in 2017, with responsibility for finance, people, panel, property, comms & events, technology & innovation for the legal function.
Natalie Salunke
Vice President & Head of Legal
FLEETCOR
Natalie Salunke
Vice President & Head of Legal
FLEETCOR
Natalie is the Head of Legal for Fleetcor, a global provider of specialised payment products and services to commercial fleets, major oil companies and petroleum marketers. She is a member of the UK and European management teams and plays a strategic role in advising the business across the UK, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Prior to her role at Fleetcor, Natalie carried out similar roles for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, NetSuite (now part of Oracle), and was Group Head of Legal and Company Secretary of Venda.
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2018 Speakers
Amy Brookbanks
Head of Legal Operations
Ocado
Amy Brookbanks
Head of Legal Operations
Ocado
Amy is Head of Legal Operations at Ocado Group plc. She joined Ocado ten years ago as a commercial and competition lawyer, and was Co-Head of the Commercial Legal Team until September 2018 when the Legal Operations division was set up.
Whilst she still provides competition law advice on the strategic relationships between Ocado, Waitrose, Morrisons, and Marks & Spencer, her main focus is now to ensure that the legal team is effectively positioned to support the business in its transformation from being an online UK retailer, to being a global provider of IT and logistics services.
Kevin Lee-Crossett
Chief Legal Officer
Quilter
Kevin Lee-Crossett
Chief Legal Officer
Quilter
Kevin Lee-Crossett serves as Chief Legal Officer Quilter plc since 2016, and previously was the firm’s Chief Risk Officer. He has more than thirty (30) years of financial services industry experience, primarily focusing on investment management business, including responsibility for legal, compliance, regulatory, corporate secretarial, corporate and operational risk and employment matters.
Prior to Quilter, Mr. Lee-Crossett has held senior roles with Winton Capital Management Limited, AlphaOne Capital Partners, Gartmore Investment Management Limited, Nationwide Insurance and Merrill Lynch; and was an associate with Drinker Biddle & Reath, as well as a Certified Public Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand.
Mr. Lee-Crossett holds JD and LLM degrees from Villanova University School of Law and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Philadelphia University. He has a license to practice as a certified public accountant, and licenses to practice law in the United States.
Jonathan Lipman
Group General Counsel
Mercedes-Benz UK – Legal Department
Jonathan Lipman
Group General Counsel
Mercedes-Benz UK – Legal Department
Jonathan Lipman has been Group General Counsel at Mercedes-Benz UK since November 2013. He leads a team of 12 who provide a wide variety of legal advice to the Mercedes-Benz Group in the UK. It operates wholesale, retail, finance and insurance business across the passenger car, van, truck and bus markets. Jonathan’s team also advises the high performance powertrains business (F1 engines). Before working for Mercedes-Benz, Jonathan was Head of Legal Affairs for seven years at PSA Peugeot Citroen.
Janet McCarthy
Group Legal Director
Bupa
Janet McCarthy
Group Legal Director
Bupa
Janet McCarthy is the Group Legal Director of Bupa. Bupa is headquartered in London and is an international healthcare group serving 32 million customers in 190 countries. Janet is widely regarded as an experienced global general counsel having worked in private and public companies in the commodities, industrials and services sectors in London, New York, Tokyo, Zurich and Sydney. She has held roles as the Chief Legal Officer in private-equity owned and publicly listed multinational companies. Janet is admitted to practice as a solicitor in England & Wales, New South Wales (Australia) and as an attorney in New York.
Joanna Nayler
General Counsel
Just Group
Joanna Nayler
General Counsel
Just Group
A pro-active, pragmatic and versatile General Counsel with extensive FTSE250 financial services experience, who enjoys partnering with the business across a wide range of areas from corporate governance to consumer law and regulatory compliance to commercial litigation.
Jo has cutting edge regulatory experience in Solvency II and Brexit-related issues and broad-ranging in-house experience in legal risk management. She also has experience in dispute resolution and corporate transactions, as well as intellectual property and data protection.
Demonstrated success in building, leading, managing and integrating legal and compliance teams. This has included through mergers, restructures and other extensive changes.
Key Specialities: advising Boards and Committees on corporate governance matters including the Market Abuse Regulation requirements and directors' duties; advising on interpretation and application of Solvency II legislation; extensive insurance and financial services compliance experience in both the general and life market on both conduct and prudential matters, including leading the internal team managing the response to an extensive s.166 including communication with the regulator and extensive change management experience during turbulent corporate change.
Chris Price
CEO
EY Riverview Law
Chris Price
CEO
EY Riverview Law
Chris is the CEO of the newly acquired law practice EY Riverview Law, which has over 100 employees and will be providing our clients with a legal managed services proposition.
Chris is also the Global Alliances Leader - Tax at EY.
He has more than 20 years of consulting experience in the management and delivery of advisory & tax services for financial services organisations.From 2008 to 2015 Chris led EY’s EMEIA Financial Services Organization (FSO) Tax business. He became the UK FSO Managing Partner in 2011 until July 2015 and was a UK board member during that period. Chris has specialised predominantly in banking and has been responsible for managing the firm’s relationship with some of its largest international banking clients.
In 2015, Chris was the Global Leader for People Advisory Services (PAS). He created and lead a global team of just over 10,000 professionals who focused on the aspects of EY’s clients strategies including change management, talent management and development, mobility and immigration, reward and organisational design. For 2015 this represents a $1.5 billion business.Kate Wellington
Head of Legal Operations
Which?
Kate Wellington
Head of Legal Operations
Which?
Kate is the Head of Legal Operations at Which?, with responsibility for delivering strategic projects that drive efficiencies in legal processes across the organisation. She is a long-standing champion of consumer rights, having previously been the Lead Lawyer for Policy & Communications at Which?, supporting the organisation’s advocacy, campaigning and enforcement initiatives. Kate is a qualified solicitor in the UK and Australia and practised as a commercial litigator at Linklaters LLP before moving in-house. She holds an LLB (UWA), BEc (UWA) and BCL (Oxon). She has served on numerous steering groups and advisory committees throughout her career, including a public appointment to the Civil Procedure Rule Committee from 2013 to 2018.
etc. venues County Hall
Westminster Bridge
County Hall
Riverside Building
Belvedere Road
London
SE1 7PB
+44 203 735 4200
Opening Times
Monday 28 October 08:30 – 17:30
Tuesday 29 October 08:30 – 17:00
Walking from Westminster underground station
Exit the station via exits 1 & 2 and turn right up the steps onto Westminster Bridge. Walk across the bridge towards County Hall and the London Eye. At the end of the bridge continue straight on along the pavement. Go straight past the entrance to Marriott hotel walking around the building and turn left in to Belvedere Road. Continue along Belvedere Road which runs along the back of County Hall - the door to the venue is situated in the middle of the building opposite Forum Magnum Square.
Walking from Waterloo underground station
Exit the station via the Southbank exit and turn right towards the London Eye. Keep walking up York Road until you hit the crossroads and see the London Eye. Turn right at the crossroads and walk towards the London Eye. Before you get to the London Eye take the first left on to Chicheley Street through the barrier. Walk past the Premier Inn and the entrance to the venue is on your right.
By Bus
etc. Venues County Hall is located on the South end of Westminster Bridge and is served by bus routes RV1, 12, 53, 76, 77, 148, 159, 211, 453, and 507.
By Taxi
Please note that there are barriers either end of Belvedere Road, when arriving by taxi you will need to walk up Belvedere Road as per the walking instructions.
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