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Inaugural EMEA Event - London, United Kingdom
Janders Dean Legal Knowledge Management & Innovation Conference
ANDAZ Hotel, 40 Liverpool Street, London, EC2M 7QN
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - Friday 15 May 2015
Andrew Baker
Global Director of Legal Product & Technology - Seyfarth Shaw
As Global Director of Legal Product and Technology for SeyfarthLean Consulting, Andrew is focused on enhancing the
delivery of legal services through the use of technology, knowledge management, process improvement, business analysis
and project management.
In this role, Andrew oversees a team of Legal & Data Solutions Architects and consultants who anticipate, identify,
design and drive innovative business solutions. As an attorney and a technologist, Andrew regularly provides technology
consultation to clients and Seyfarth Shaw attorneys.
Andrew is a proven innovator and has overseen the completion of dozens of complex, legal technology projects. Andrew
is a regular speaker on process improvement, legal technology and legal innovation. He has also authored articles on
alternative fee arrangement use, legal process improvement and user experience design within the legal environment.
Yasmin Lambert
Partner - RSG Consulting
Yasmin is the Senior Consultant and an equity partner at RSG Consulting. She has worked with the firm for the last six
years, immersed in the FT Innovative Lawyers programme, RSG-India and many of the other thought-leadership projects
RSG undertakes.
The many strings to her bow include designing some of the major analytical frameworks behind the Eversheds Board
Reports as well as the conceptual frameworks for value in legal services the firm has pioneered. She is an accredited
Meyler Campbell graduate of the Elements programme and uses her coaching every day with clients and the RSG team.
She also teaches on the IE Business School Lawyers Management Programme.
With extensive experience in academic research and writing, Yasmin is trained in qualitative and quantitative research
and analysis. After five years working in the IT industry, Yasmin worked for the Department of Health in Australia and on a
project to develop self-regulation for the further education sector in the UK. Yasmin has a first class honours degree in legal
and political philosophy from the University of Sydney, where she also completed graduate studies in economics.
Martin Coleman
Global co-Head of Regulatory & Investigations
- Norton Rose Fulbright and Board Member/Chair of Education & Training Committee, Solicitors Regulation Authority
Martin Coleman is a competition partner based in London and Global Head of our Antitrust and Competition practice.
Martin has led many cases before the European Commission and UK competition authorities and has advised major
businesses, public authorities and national governments on competition law issues. His areas of expertise include merger
control (including contested bids); advising complainants and respondents in relation to investigations by competition
authorities; competition law compliance and competition law strategic planning. He advises businesses, governments and
government agencies.
Martin is regularly recommended in the legal texts, with Chambers UK 2010 describing him as “a heavy hitter with a big
presence in the market.” and Legal 500 stating “Martin Coleman heads a team that has achieved roles on a series of
seminal cases”.
Martin is a regular speaker at conferences on EC and competition law topics, and has written books and articles for both
specialist and more general publications.
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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - Friday 15 May 2015
Andrew Inkester
Managing Partner - Nabarro LLP
Andrew is Nabarro LLP’s Managing Partner and manages the day to day operations of the firm, while also leading the
implementation of Nabarro’s strategy. Andrew helps Nabarro translate this strategy into a set of actions. Nabarro’s aim to
put clients at the centre of everything they do, and focus on areas where the firm is acknowledged as experts, and on five
key sectors. The firm’s client base is becoming increasingly international.
In addition to the above, Andrew is one of Nabarro’s senior Corporate partners, with a 30 year track record of applying
deep industry knowledge to high profile corporate transactions. His legal expertise is centred around M&A and private
equity, providing business orientated advice as opposed to the pure letter of the law.
Andrew also leads the defence sector offering at Nabarro and has significant cross-border expertise (particularly acting for
US clients within the UK). Andrew holds a CF from the Corporate Finance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
and a CTA from the Institute of Taxation.
Sarah McNulty
Head of Sales - Axiom
Sara McNulty is UK Head of Sales at Axiom, the world’s most innovative provider of tech-enabled legal, contracts and
compliance solutions for large enterprises. At Axiom, Sara oversees the strategy and growth of London’s Commerce
& Industry and Diversified Financial Services practice areas along with managing the wider office. She has extensive
experience working with innovative General Counsel to improve their operating models and deliver value back to the
business. Sara joined Axiom from Simmons & Simmons where she trained and practiced as a commercial litigator.
Priya Lele
Principal Process Improvement Lawyer - Streamline (BLP)
Priya is a dual-qualified lawyer (Advocate in India and Solicitor in England and Wales) with over 14 years’ experience. A
corporate finance lawyer by background, she uses legal process improvement and legal project management techniques
to create processes to support efficient and seamless service to clients. Priya completed her LLM (in Corporate Law) at
the University of Cambridge and worked as a Research Fellow there before joining the London office of Ashurst LLP. As a
Senior Associate, Priya gained significant experience in international M&A and Equity Capital Markets transactions.
Priya joined BLP as a Corporate Finance Knowledge Development Lawyer in 2012 before moving into the Streamline,
Legal Process Improvement (LPI) team as a Process Improvement Lawyer. Priya conducts Streamline workshops for
clients as well as BLP legal teams. Priya explores and delivers new ways of working through specialist process design,
continuous improvement, project management and innovation. Priya is involved in client and strategic projects across the
firm.
Priya has a Yellow Belt and is currently working towards a Green Belt certification in Lean Six Sigma Organisation
Development.
BLP’s Streamline approach was shortlisted and Highly Commended for both “Most Innovative Law Firm in Client Service”
at the FT Innovative Lawyers Award 2014 and “Innovation of the Year” at the Modern Law Awards 2014. It received further
recognition as part of BLP’s Integrated Client Service Model, which was shortlisted and achieved a “Standout” ranking for
“Innovation in Value Resourcing” at the FT Innovative Lawyers Award 2014.
Libby Jarvis
Legal Projects Manager - Herbert Smith Freehills
Libby oversees the development and delivery of strategic initiatives and competency programs in the Australian region
combining the disciplines of project management, process improvement and knowledge management. This is driven
by a desire to continually improve the way the firm manages and delivers legal services, and responds to the changing
expectations of clients.
On a practical level, Libby and her team do this by partnering with clients, client teams, internal pricing specialists and
matter teams to design and implement tailored frameworks and processes.
Libby is a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner. Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills in 2012, Libby worked for ten years as a
litigation lawyer, six of which were spent in London where she worked in-house for Glaxo SmithKline and later as a Senior
Associate with a major international law firm where she was responsible for project managing large-scale and complex
litigation.
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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - Friday 15 May 2015
Sue Anderson
Director of Programs - ARA Retail Association (Australia)
Sue has over 20 years of experience working with leading Australian retail brands and property groups. Having held Senior
Management roles within a number of organisations in Visual Merchandising, Operations, Buying and Marketing, and
currently working broadly in the retail industry as a Consultant, Sue specialises in guiding retailers in areas that impact on
customer’s perception, specifically Visual merchandising, Marketing and Customer Experience.
Currently Sue is a senior director at the Australian Retailers Association, with responsibility for delivering training programs
and defining industry standards of best practice education for the industry. Sue is also a director of consulting business,
Retail Capabilities, which delivers retail education, training and consulting services to organisations in the property and
franchise sector. Sue holds several qualifications including a Bachelor of Business (Management) and an Executive MBA.
Although not on Sue’s formal bio - Janders Dean believe it only right to highlight that Sue (always selfless and humble) is
also quietly a Board Member of Australian charity The Kids’ Cancer Project. Sue has been instrumental in lobbying the
Australian Government to raise awareness about the importance of childhood cancer research and funding, and the need
for the introduction of leading treatment facilities that are not currently available in Australia. As a result of the amazing work
of Sue and her fellow Board Members and network, The Kids’ Cancer Project can take an immense amount of the credit
for the recent announcement that life-saving proton therapy treatment will now be available in Australia, potentially by 2017,
meaning that Australian families no longer have to travel the globe seeking treatment for their children.
Travis Leon
Director - XRef
Travis Leon qualified and practised as a solicitor in the Derivatives and Structured Products Group at Linklaters in London
before moving in-house to Merrill Lynch. With lawyers from other top firms, Travis co-founded XRef, a company that
created software to automate important elements of the proofreading process carried out by lawyers. The tool, which has
been well-received by lawyers in the UK, US and Australia, combats two growing concerns for law firms: 1) minimising risk;
and 2) increasing efficiency/productivity of fee-earning lawyers.
Matthew Kobylar
Director of Interior Design and Workplace Strategy - Arney Fender Katsalidis
Matthew Kobylar is a Workplace Strategist and Interior Designer renowned for delivering high quality workplace
environments. With over 20 years’ experience in the corporate interiors industry, Matthew is passionate about researchdriven design and is always keen to understand the question “why?” and how it drives business based decisions about
design.
Matthew is a regular speaker on subjects related to generational issues, productivity and workplace performance
measurement. Matthew is responsible for the management and delivery of projects within our office and leader of
the Interior Design Studio. He has extensive experience in professional service firms including accountancy firms, law
practices, executive recruitment consultants, management consultants, as well as many financial institutions.
Arney Fender Katsalidis is and architecture and interior design firm that design beautiful, innovative and inspiring interior
spaces and buildings that help people live and work better. Formed in 1988, Arney Fender Katsalidis has a quarter century
of collective, award-winning experience, however, consider themselves young at heart and nimble of mind. During his time
with Arney Fender Katsalidis, the company has completed projects throughout the UK, Asia and Australia, and are also
currently undertaking work in Canada, the Middle East and Malaysia.
Richard Seabrook
Director - Neota Logic
Richard is a Senior Executive at Neota Logic and a leader with a record of building and leading global organisations across
a range of industries and professional services, Rick’s most recent role as European Managing Director of a Nasdaq-listed
legal technology business focused on strategy, growth and commercial delivery.
Previously a Managing Director at Accenture, Rick has enjoyed 18 highly successful years of market and business
development and leading large-scale global divisions, and is an expert in strategy, organic and acquired growth and
transformational change.
Rick has a Bachelor of Arts degree (Joint Honours) in Modern Languages from Newcastle University, England and is an
alumnus of Harvard Business School. He is a non-executive director of Workpond Ltd, a disruptive flexible employment
company.
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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - Friday 15 May 2015
Greg Wildisen
Director - Neota Logic
Greg Wildisen is the International Managing Director of Neota Logic. Based in London, Greg is a seasoned executive
with extensive experience managing businesses across Europe Middle East and Asia. He most recently served as the
International Managing Director for Epiq Systems, an eDiscovery and legal technology company. Prior to that he headed
Pinpoint Global in London, was the founder of Diskcovery in Australia and also practiced as a solicitor in Sydney.
Greg’s role allows Neota Logic to better support existing clients in Europe as well as to leverage the deep technology and
process transformation experience he brings in the delivery of the company’s innovative technology solutions.
Dr Viktor Dörfler
Senior Lecturer in Information and Knowledge Management - Strathclyde Business School Management Science Department
Viktor is Senior Lecturer in Information and Knowledge Management at the Department of Management Science, University
of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, UK. His research is focused on two interrelated areas: modelling of personal
knowledge and learning in organizational context; and knowledge-based expert systems (KBS), and related intelligent
applications. Viktor has written two books, five book chapters, several journal papers, and a few dozen conference papers.
He uses innovative teaching methods and advised the development of several VLEs and the Doctus KBS. As knowledge
engineer he used Doctus to support top executive decision takers.
Viktor’s research is focused on two interrelated areas: the first covers modelling personal knowledge, learning and cognition
in organisational context; the second covers knowledge-based expert systems, in particular the Doctus KBS. Having
developed a number of conceptual models of personal (and later trans-personal) knowledge, his most recent research on
creativity and intuition has seen Viktor interview 20 world-renowned experts, including 17 Nobel Laureates. This research
has been published in Management Learning, International Journal of Management Reviews, Knowledge Management
Research and Practice, Creativity and Innovation Management, amongst others.
Viktor also serves on the International Editorial Board of Management Learning.
Stuart Barr
Chief Strategy Officer- HighQ (UK)
Stuart leads product strategy, design, marketing and client engagement at HighQ. Stuart has a strong background in
business strategy and consulting as well as extensive technical, project and general management experience.
Stuart has a diverse background with web technologies and social computing in the professional services industry, having
previously worked at leading organisations including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hays plc and Headshift, an innovative
social computing agency. Stuart has a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Cardiff Business School and a keen interest
in the web, social computing and technology in general. In particular how it can be applied in the enterprise to transform
the way we work.
Tom Slate
Continuous Improvement Director - Clifford Chance LLP
Tom is the Director of Continuous Improvement for Clifford Chance, responsible delivering a programme of improvements
in legal service delivery, based around ‘lean’ and ‘six-sigma’.
Having worked in the legal industry for almost five years, Tom and his team regularly work with lawyers, partners and clients
from across the globe to re-design their approach to delivering and managing legal services in a more cost effective way.
His team’s work also extends across the non-fee earning side of the business. Their work has included running rapid
process improvement workshops on end-to-end finance transactions and corporate acquisitions, involving both lawyer and
client, to running training courses on Continuous Improvement to help manage an individual’s time more effectively.
Before joining Clifford Chance, Tom worked in the telecommunications industry in Australia, also deploying Continuous
Improvement. Prior to that, Tom was a Management Consultant, supporting a number of organisations around achieving
Operational Excellence.
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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - Friday 15 May 2015
Liz Fraser
Continuous Improvement Consultant - Clifford Chance
Liz has been in Knowledge and Information since she joined Clifford Chance in 1991 and for the last 15 years has
managed the Knowledge and Information service in Finance and Capital Markets. Over that time Liz has worked on
improving the efficiency of the day to day tasks to enable the team to deliver higher value products and services to meet
the challenges posed by the rapidly changing legal environment for financial services.
As a result Liz is very enthusiastic about what Continuous Improvement can achieve, so much so that she is making a
career change to join the Clifford Chance Continuous Improvement team.
Andy Wishart
Chief Technology Officer - Business Integrity
Andy Wishart is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Business Integrity. Since 2000, Business Integrity has provided
best in class document assembly and contract automation products for law firms and corporate legal departments.
As CTO at Business Integrity, Andy has worked with leading global law firms and corporate legal departments in the
delivery of differentiated client services and contract automation solutions. Andy has recently worked with Stanford Law
School, delivering a class on the future of legal document assembly, and participated in workshops aimed at bringing
together academic research with industry best-practice.
Prior to Business Integrity, Andy worked as a research associate and lecturer at the Human Communication Research
Center in Edinburgh. He is a graduate in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology from the University of Edinburgh.
Miles McGoun
Director - Manzama
Miles McGoun is Director of Global Sales for Manzama and is responsible for leading Manzama’s international sales
and business development efforts. After receiving his BA Hons degree in Business and Finance from London Guildhall
University, Miles joined the legal solutions company Tikit Limited. Miles was one of the very first employees at Tikit and
during his 14 year tenure with the company he helped Tikit grow from a small startup to its acquisition by British Telecom
for £64 million. While at Tikit, McGoun helped to successfully introduce a number of U.S. software products into the
European law firm market including InterAction, ContactNet and iManage. More recently he has helped to bring some of
Tikit’s products into the worldwide legal market space including Tikit’s emarketing solution which is now in use at more than
350 law firms across the globe. A nationally recognized Thought Leader, Miles is available to speak or write about his many
areas of expertise.
Peggy Forell
Director - Advocality
Peggy Forell is a consultant with 20 years’ experience in the areas of communication and impact. Her theatrical training
formed the essence of her work, starting from a concentration on presentation skills and voice work for the non-actor/
singer, to now encompassing influencing and persuasion techniques, profile-raising and self-branding, as well as
personality profiling.
Peggy rapidly transitioned into the demanding world of commercial clients and she numbers some of the most notable
global law firms and banks on her client list.
Peggy also works with an impressive list of universities and teaching institutions around the world. Peggy is an Australian/
American who has been living in the UK for over 25 years, and she travels extensively.
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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS - Friday 15 May 2015
Justin North
Director & Founder - Janders Dean International
Justin specialises in leading Information Technology and Knowledge Management planning projects aimed at improving
firm efficiencies, profitability, fee earner working practices and user experiences. His role requires in depth expertise and
understanding not only of law firm management processes and emerging technologies, but also of the unique law firm
processes and objectives (the way in which lawyers and law firm user communities operate), which, in turn are interpreted
into process and application designs which are sensitive to change management, usability, and risk management
requirements of users, law firm management and external clients.
Prior to forming Janders Dean, Justin was a lead consultant with Baker Robbins & Company for five years, operating out of
the London and New York. Justin has over a decade’s experience working directly firms in the United Kingdom, the United
States, Australia, and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
A selection of firms that Justin has been involved in over the past ten years include Herbert Smith Freehills, Seyfarth Shaw,
Reed Smith, Mayer Brown, King & Wood Mallesons, Clifford Chance, Paul Weiss, Clyde & Co, Nabarro, Stevens & Bolton,
Corrs, Clayton Utz, Gilbert+Tobin, Norton Rose Fulbright, Stewarts Law, Sparke Helmore, Ashurst, Minter Ellison, Maurice
Blackburn, Ogier, Holland & Knight, Fried Frank, Baker & Hostetler, Jones Day, Webber Wentzel, Bowman Gilfillan, African
Legal Network (ALN), Aluko & Oyebode, and Posse Herrera Ruiz. Justin also advises the in-house legal functions at HSBC,
Vodafone, BAE Systems, Willmott Dixon, Swiss Re, and IRESS.
About Janders Dean
Janders Dean is an independent consultancy founded in 2007. Our core areas of expertise include business analysis and advisory services for law firm
strategic technology planning, design and implementation projects, as well as knowledge management and client service delivery innovation advisory
services.
We have the largest and most geographically diverse client base of any consultancy specialising in these unique areas. Our clients include a number of
leading law firms in the United Kingdom, the United States, South America, Africa, Channel Islands, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region - in addition to large
in-house legal teams at highly regulated international corporations.
We believe that providing a valuable advisory service to our clients requires a deep understanding of how lawyers of all qualification levels, peer levels, and
jurisdictions work. Since our inception, Janders Dean has undertaken in excess of 1,000 individual behaviour observation interviews specifically in the area of
technology design and application suitability, knowledge management requirements, records management, document management, and information seeking
behaviours in law firms across the globe.
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