Meet the Speakers

Stephen Allen, Director of Innovation at BLP, has a proven track record in re-engineering businesses and delivering improved services alongside increased profitability.

At BLP, Stephen is the co-architect of the Managed Legal Service, responsible for the delivery of the project to Thames Water and now leads innovation initiatives within the firm and offers consultancy and service solutions to key clients.

Stephen has held various leadership roles at The France Télécom Group including running two divisions, having previously worked within the Magic Circle.

Stephen writes a leading blog on legal services innovation.

Bobby Arash is a Swedish Advocate and one of the founders of Atheo Law firm in Sweden. His practice is mainly focused on regulatory compliance and the related commercial issues.

Mr. Arash has over a decade of experience from the private and public sector, as well as international law firms in Sweden, USA and Belgium. Most recently, he was the head of Magnusson law firm’s environmental and life science practice in Stockholm. H has also practiced law in the Brussels office of Steptoe & Johnson, as well the Director of Regulatory Affairs at SafeLife in San Diego.

Mr. Arash’s professional experience also includes a national expert position with the European Commission and the Swedish National Chemicals Agency. His track record includes legal advice to multinational companies within such sectors as, among others, biocides, biotechnology, commodity chemicals, cosmetics, electronics, flavors, food, fragrances, medical devices, metals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, petrochemicals, polymers and textiles, toys and waste.

Mr. Arash received his law degree (LL.M) and also holds a degree in Molecular Biology (M.Sc.) from the Stockholm University. He is a member of the Swedish BAR Association and also acknowledged by Legal 500 EMEA 2009 in the area of EU regulatory Chemicals (REACH).

Dominic began his career with Theodore Goddard before he joined Standard Chartered Bank in 1992. Dominic moved to the USA in 1998 to head up Standard Chartered’s Legal and Compliance Department in North and South America. He joined Gulf International Bank as General Counsel in 2002 and left in 2007 to join CMC Markets where he was Group Director - Legal. Dominic joined WorldSpreads in 2010 and is responsible for the Group’s global legal, regulatory and compliance affairs as well as being the Group’s MLRO. Dominic qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1989. He was named one of The Lawyer's "Hot 100" lawyers in 2004 and was also nominated for Legal Week’s "Blue Chip Small Team of the Year in 2003 and The Lawyer’s "In-House Lawyer of the Year" in 2009.

Philippa trained and qualified as a corporate solicitor with Lovells in 2000 and joined us in 2002. Always focussed on the in-house market, she initially specialised in recruiting lawyers for banking and finance clients before moving to Madrid in 2003 to set up Hays Legal there. She returned to London in 2005 and since then has concentrated on the permanent commerce and industry sector. She recruits lawyers at all levels from Heads of Legal and sole counsel to more junior team members and focuses on the areas in and around London.

Stroz Friedberg’s Executive Managing Director Seth P. Berman oversees the firm’s London office where he supervises digital forensics, cybercrime investigations, and electronic disclosure assignments in criminal, civil, regulatory, and internal corporate matters. He has extensive experience dealing with cross-border electronic disclosure projects including cases involving European Union data protection laws and national bank secrecy regulations. He also oversees computer investigations involving data breaches, securities fraud, identity theft, employee misconduct, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, and theft of trade secrets.

Mr Berman was previously an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts where he served in the Computer Crimes Unit as Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator. Earlier, Mr Berman was a partner at the law firm McDermott, Will & Emery in Boston, where he focused on complex civil litigation and white collar defence work. Mr Berman began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office where he served as a member of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force.

Mr Berman received his A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School.

Bo Berndtsson is the Chief Compliance Officer for the Volvo Group, responsible for anti-corruption compliance, competition law compliance as well as over-seing export control related matters. He has been instrumental in rolling out a global and comprehensive anti-corruption compliance programme for the Volvo Group since taking up this position in 2009. Before his current function, he was a Legal Manager in the Akzo Nobel group as well as a Corporate Legal Counsel in the Volvo Group and he has more than 15 years' experience in commercial legal matters.

Stephen Brown advises major corporations in relation to disputes across a range of industries including chemical and other manufacturing, telecoms, IT, and investments. He advises on all areas of corporate contractual matters including warranty claims, joint venture disputes, shareholder disputes, and disputes concerning the meaning of agreements. Stephen's practice includes a substantial volume of competition cases. Stephen represents, among others, Hino, IATA, Procter & Gamble, sanofi-aventis, Total S.A., and Toyota. Recent engagements have included defending sanofi-aventis in claims alleging the abuse of a dominant position, defending Total S.A. in claims arising out of the Candle Wax Cartels, appearing for IATA in its intervention in the High Court proceedings and reference to the European Court of Justice challenging the extension of the EU's emissions trading scheme to aviation, and advising Procter & Gamble in relation to various claims arising out of the disposal of its tissue towel business.

Stephen is ranked as a leading individual by Chambers 2010, which notes that he is "extremely smart and practical in his dealings with clients." He also is recognised for his pension dispute resolution practice and described in Chambers UK 2010 as "extremely high quality."

Stephen has been a Higher Rights advocate for 10 years and appears regularly both in court and other tribunals.

Nils Breidenstein is Vice President, Group IP Counsel and Associate General Counsel of Invensys plc.

In his position Nils heads the Legal Department of Invensys in Europe, Russia/Caspian, Middle-East and Africa whose lawyers are based in various cities of those geographies and provides legal services for over 50 entities in the region. In addition to leading the legal and the contract management teams, his responsibilities include both the legal side of the commercial activities and the corporate matters of Invensys and also managing and implementing both global and regional wide projects and initiatives. Nils is also member of the European Leadership Team and the Senior Legal Team of Invensys.

As Group IP Counsel Nils leads the Intellectual Property function of the Invensys Group which is responsible for all patent, trademark and the entire IP activities of Invensys with teams of IP attorneys and engineers in various locations around the globe.

Nils has worked in international senior in-house positions for over 12 years. He begun at Invensys as Director Legal & Contracts at Invensys Process Systems, becoming then Associate GC of Invensys Operations Management, an entity created from four business units within Invensys before moving into his current role. Prior to joining Invensys, Nils was Director of Legal, EMEA & APAC at Pegasystems and before that General Counsel, EMEA of BEA. He was for 5 years the EMEA Legal Counsel of SeeBeyond where he built up and run its European legal function and prior to that Nils was the Head of Legal, EMEA for Sterling Commerce.

Nils is involved with Global Leaders in Law as a member of its Advisory Board and the Commerce & Industry Group of The Law Society and writes for various legal publications and is a speaker on current legal/in-house matters at conferences throughout Europe.

He is a dual qualified German and English lawyer and studied at the University of Bochum, Germany and the University of Surrey, Guildford and received a master of laws degree from the University of Cardiff.

Philipp Buis, Partner at Jauch Associates AG, has a business administration degree and has thirteen years of experience in Executive Search. He placed more than 150 senior executives and top specialist for large cap Multinationals, international niche players and local companies.

Philipp is a specialist in Legal and has successfully conducted numerous search assignments for Corporate and Group Legal positions in various industries, focusing on M&A, Capital Markets, IP, Life Sciences and General Corporate & Commercial Matters

Chris Dale qualified as an English solicitor in 1980 after reading History at Oxford. He was a litigation partner in London and then a litigation software developer and litigation support consultant before turning to commentary on electronic disclosure / discovery. He runs the e-Disclosure Information Project which disseminates information about the court rules, the problems, and the technology to lawyers and their clients, to judges, and to suppliers. He is a member of Senior Master Whitaker's Working Party which drafted the new Practice Direction and Electronic Documents Questionnaire. He writes the UK's only authoritative and objective web site and blog on the subject and is a well-known speaker and commentator in the UK, the US and other common law jurisdictions.

Yves De Bruyne is EMEA General Counsel at Procter & Gamble in Geneva.

Yves and his team of attorneys and legal professionals oversee all Procter & Gamble operations and businesses across the two regional divisions of P&G Western Europe (WE) and P&G Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), covering about 120 markets across a variety of highly developed and emerging countries.

Originally from Brussels (Belgium), Yves graduated from Namur, Louvain-la-Neuve and Leiden Universities. Following military service as an officer in the Recce troops, he first joined the Brussels office of Allen & Overy in 1987, then P&G Belgium in 1989 as Legal Counsel Belgium.

Yves is P&G’s representative to several industry associations, a past chairman of the Belgian Company Lawyers Association (now IJE/IBJ) and a former member of the ECLA’s (European Company Lawyers Association) Board of Directors.

Julian’s wide practice encompasses all aspects of information governance, regulatory and commercial telecoms work, , IT and outsourcing contracts, e-commerce and media work. Most of Julian’s work focuses on highly regulated industries such as telecoms, financial services, professional services, utilities and the public sector, where he can combine his regulatory and commercial contracts expertise.

In recent years he has advised many global telecommunications companies on their expansion strategies into emerging markets and on operational optimisation strategies such as outsourcing and infrastructure sharing.

Cary Depel is the Global Group Head of Compliance of ENRC plc, a London Stock Exchange listed company and one of the largest mining businesses in the world.

Prior to joining ENRC, he was the General Counsel and HR Director of LMAX Ltd, which built the first derivatives exchange for retail customers.

From 2004 until June 2007 Cary Depel was the Compliance, Risk & Legal Director for City Index Ltd (formerly IFX Markets Ltd); and was the Chairman of the Institute of Risk Management in 2006-2007. He has held non-executive directorships in mining, financial services and strategy consultancy businesses. Mr Depel has been a Director of a major UK stockbroker; Chief Legal Officer for the largest UK insurer; Special Counsel to Lloyd's; and was in private legal practice in London and San Francisco. He is an English solicitor since 1997 and is qualified to practice law in California since 1990.

He received his BSc (management and accounting) and JD (law) from Indiana University and a LLM (corporate finance and banking law) from King's College, University of London. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (FCISI) and the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII), and a former Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and the Institute of Risk Management. He is a solicitor of the Court of England & Wales since 1997 and a California lawyer since 1990. Cary is a British and US citizen and has lived in London, England with his family for 18 years.

Ellie Doohan is Executive General Counsel and Company Secretary at Asda, Britain's second-largest food retailer. Asda is also a key part of Walmart - the world's leading retailer, generating around a third of its international division sales here in the UK.

She leads a team of over 100 colleagues, responsible for legal, risk, corporate insurance, compliance and health and safety. She is also responsible for product safety from supplier to the customer's home, fleet safety and operations audit.

As Company Secretary, she works closely with the CEO and the Asda board and led the legal team responsible for the acquisition and competition approval of Netto.

Ellie is also chair of International Produce Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walmart, employing around 1,000 people across the globe to source fresh product for Asda and other Walmart markets.

Manchester-born, Ellie graduated in 1991 from Nottingham Trent University with an honours degree in Law and completed her legal training at the College of Law, York in 1993. She has previously worked for law firms Irwin Mitchell and Hammonds in a variety of practice areas, specialising in corporate work.

Ellie joined Asda in 1998 and lives in Yorkshire.

David assumed his role as General Counsel, BT Global Services in May 2008 and has had various roles in BT before that date, most recently as General Counsel BT Americas based in the US for over 2 years. He is a senior lawyer with global experience at BT as well as in private practice and with other multinational companies. He joined BT in 2001 to unwind BT’s Concert joint venture with AT&T and was involved in most of the acquisitions that helped build BT Global Services in recent years, including Infonet, INS, Comsat, Net2S and Frontline in Asia Pacific.

He gained extensive experience in the range of Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial Deals, Corporate Restructuring and Anti-Trust issues at Ashurst before joining DuPont de Nemours Inc. to run UK and European operations for that large chemical group. With strong skills and knowledge in project management and outsourcing, David has managed and run many complex multi-jurisdictional contracts as well as large and diverse teams. He now runs a global team of over 200 lawyers, regulatory specialists and contract managers covering all aspects of the legal and regulatory needs for BT.

He was named ‘Most Promising In–House Lawyer’ in 2003.

David is based in London, BT Centre and is married with three children.

Patrick Garver is a US-trained lawyer who had a distinguished career practicing law with a leading law firm in the western United States. In 1994, he left private practice and moved to Toronto to become the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Barrick Gold Corporation which, during his tenure, grew to become the largest gold mining and trading company in the world. Patrick has held leadership positions in public and private companies as well as non-profit and professional organisations. In addition, he has published articles and made numerous presentations focusing on investment issues relevant to multinational companies. In 2006, he was recognised by Canadian lawyers and the National Post as Canadian General Counsel of the Year. Mr Garver took early retirement from Barrick in 2010. He currently remains very active in a variety of roles, including advising and speaking on international anti-corruption matters.

Lord (Peter) Goldsmith QC, PC, Chair of European and Asian Litigation, joined Debevoise as European Chair of Litigation in September 2007. Lord Goldsmith served as the UK’s Attorney General from 2001-2007, prior to which he was in private practice as one of the leading barristers in London.

Lord Goldsmith practised from Fountain Court Chambers from 1972-2001, specialising principally in commercial, corporate and international litigation and appellate work. During this time he was ranked by Chambers UK 2000-01 as being in the top tier of leading silks in London for international arbitration and commercial litigation. He became Queen’s Counsel in 1987 at the early age of 37 and has judicial experience as a Crown Court Recorder and a Deputy High Court Judge. Consistently acknowledged for his prominence, American Lawyer states that ‘[he has] the advocacy skills of one of the finest barristers of his generation.’

Lord Goldsmith was appointed Attorney General in 2001, acting as chief legal adviser to the government on matters of domestic, European and international law. He represented the government in numerous cases in UK and international courts.

He has appeared in many cases in the House of Lords, the Privy Council and the Court of Appeal as well as international and European courts and in the courts of a number of other jurisdictions. Significant work includes leading cases on auditors’ liability; insurance and takeover law; banking law; company law; insolvency litigation; revenue cases; public law and public international law; and arbitration. A list of representative cases is available on request.

He was a graduate in law from Cambridge University with double first class honours and a Master’s from University College London. He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1972 and New South Wales in 2010.

His experience in relation to underwriting commercial litigation cases for litigation funding ATE insurance purposes is as extensive as any Legal Underwriter. Bob has lectured widely on ATE insurance, litigation funding and related subjects to solicitor groups, barrister groups and organisations such as the Commercial Bar Association and has been quoted widely in the UK legal press. Over a period of 12 years Bob has been responsible for the underwriting of in excess of 11,000 commercial litigation cases for ATE insurance and/or litigation funding with the cases ranging from small commercial litigation to large and complex multi-jurisdictional matters.

Ted Greeno is a senior litigation partner based in the London office of Herbert Smith. He has conducted commercial litigation in all the higher English Courts on disputes ranging from general contract and tort claims through company law, public law, tax and anti-trust cases as well as disputes with an intellectual property element. He has also undertaken cases before the Special Commissioners, the Copyright Tribunal and in numerous international arbitrations, in which he has participated both as Counsel and Arbitrator. He has spoken and written widely on litigation and arbitration issues and participates in the Commercial Court Users Group and its Sub-Committees. He has Higher Rights of Audience in the English Courts.

Much of Ted's work is in the energy sector. In particular he advises a number of major oil, gas and power companies on litigation, arbitration and expert determinations regarding a wide range of matters. He also has particular experience of engineering and construction disputes, media and product liability law, IT, defence contracts, professional negligence and accountancy disputes arising on completion accounts.

Ted has conducted international arbitrations involving oil, gas and minerals disputes in the Middle East, Indonesia, China, India, North America, South America, Central Africa, the UK, continental Europe and the USA. He conducts arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules as well as ad hoc arbitrations both as arbitrator and counsel.

Ted led the teams which won The Lawyer Litigation Team of the Year Award in both 2009 and 2010, as well as the Litigation Team of the Year at British Legal Awards 2010 and Legal Business Litigation Team of the Year in 2011. He is recognised as a leader in the fields of Dispute Resolution and Energy in the legal directories.

Michael Harris is a specialist in enhanced due diligence, company and individual investigations, international sanctions, anti-money laundering, KYC and risk management using business intelligence to assist companies in compliance with UK Bribery Act and FCPA .

Michael graduated from the University of Birmingham with double honours degrees worked in sales and marketing then advanced into general management. Between 1988 and 2005, he held positions as managing director in three different organisations including a division of a Multi National company, an American group and latterly an SME.

From 2006 until 2009, was Director of Business Development and Head of Business Legal Services for a Regional Law Firm.

Trained as a consultant with the highly acclaimed Alchemy Network . Has worked with World-Check and now Thomson Reuters 2009 providing Enhanced Due Diligence services to AIM Nomads, Law Firms and Specialist Engineering and Manufacturing Companies in Aerospace & Defence, Automotive, Food and Chemical Processing.

Is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

Joanne Hindle trained as a lawyer, specialising in commercial law. She has worked in the financial services industry for over 25 years in a variety of roles including the first Chief Executive of IFA Promotion, director of pensions’ development for NatWest Life and as a board director of Unum (the disability insurer). There she had responsibility for audit, risk, compliance and legal matters as well as PR and public affairs.

She has run various high profile campaigns including ‘A Changing Nation’ for NatWest, highlighting the pensions’ risk society faces and ‘Beginnings’ for Unum helping to change societal attitude to disability and work.

She has published widely on financial services issues including writing 2 books and numerous articles - most recently she is writing monthly on compliance issues for Financial Adviser and has written for the Actuary on the future of regulation.

She now works for part of the AXA Group as head of legal and compliance as well as holds some non executive roles (for a friendly society, a national charity and the trade body ILAG).

Jackie Holland joined the OFT in June 2008 as Director of Competition Policy at the OFT and is also the new Procedural Adjudicator for Competition Act 1998 cases. Her team advises internally on policy issues and carries out projects to shape the future direction of the OFT's competition enforcement work. Her team's recent projects have included consultations on revised leniency and penalty guidance, guidance for businesses and directors on competition law compliance, guidance on the application of competition law to land agreements, the development of the new procedural guidance for Competition Act 1998 cases and the Procedural Adjudicator trial, research into Drivers of Compliance and Non-Compliance with Competition law, the review of the OFT's director disqualification guidance and the development of the OFT's new Short-form Opinion tool. They have also been actively involved in the European Commission's various block exemption reviews. Previously she was a Senior Associate in the Competition Group of Slaughter and May, where she had extensive experience of advising on EU and UK competition law issues arising in the context of mergers, commercial practices and agreements, dominance situations, competition authority investigations and litigation. She was seconded to the Slaughter and May Brussels office between 2004 and 2006.

Andrew is Director of Legal at Specsavers, the world's largest privately owned optical retailer.

After he qualified as a solicitor in 1993 he joined Eversheds, one of the world's largest law firms, specialising in corporate and commercial law. He moved to the Cayman Islands for a two year stint between 1996-1998 covering all aspects of offshore commercial law. Andrew then returned to Eversheds and, for the next two years, focused on corporate law, before moving in-house with Boots, Nottingham in 2000. He spent six years at Boots handling all aspects of the group's corporate and commercial legal work, including the sale of Halfords and Boots Healthcare International and the merger of Boots and Alliance Unichem to form Alliance Boots. Andrew joined Specsavers in 2006 and his specialist areas remain corporate and commercial law as well as competition and retail law.

Wim Kokkedee is Company Secretary & Head of Group Legal at Koninklijke Ahold N.V. Prior to that he held various senior legal positions within the Cofra group of companies. During his career as in-house legal counsel Wim has, largely as managing lawyer, worked at and covered all legal aspects of retail group C&A with over 1200 stores in Europe, real estate investment and development group Redevco with operations in 20 European and Asian countries as well as private equity funds active in three continents. Wim Kokkedee started his career as an attorney at law with De Brauw Blackstone in Amsterdam.

Philip is the Chief Executive Office of New Street Solutions. His twenty five year software and service industry experience was harnessed to specify, design and build the underlying platform on which NSS runs. He now owns the responsibility for all aspects of NSS business.

Philip came to NSS from Swiss Post Solutions where he had been Director of e-Business after joining them in 2009 when they acquired the e-business, software as a service company for whom he was the Managing Director. Prior to this Philip has held various Board positions with international software vendors supplying large scale solutions to the banking and finance industry globally.

Bruce Macmillan is General Counsel to the Legal Services Board – the new oversight regulator for the English and Welsh legal profession. Prior to joining the Legal Services Board, Bruce was Dell EMEA Senior Counsel for the Consumer, Retail and business distribution divisions. Prior to Dell Bruce was UK Head of Legal for telecoms groups Tele2, and Alpha Telecom and was in house counsel at ONdigital/ITV Digital and Cable & Wireless. Bruce started his legal career at Gouldens (now Jones Day) and also worked for SJ Berwin before moving in house. Bruce has been an active member of legal trade associations including the Commerce & Industry Group (where he was chair of the Corporate Governance Committee) and the Cisco IT lawyers’ forum.

An experienced Solicitor Advocate, John deals with a range of commercial litigation and has particular expertise in intellectual property and IT matters. He advises clients in relation to IP disputes and has litigated comparative advertising, trademark infringement and copyright cases before the High Court. John also advises clients in relation to IP portfolio management and in particular online brand protection. John has devised and implemented online brand protection programs for two global banks, one of which had a multi-brand strategy. He has John has experience in acting for clients from a variety of sectors, UK-wide, including energy and utilities, banking, IT and manufacturing and has dealt with many online issues.

John has a keen interest in the process of dispute resolution. Online Dispute Resolution and its application to the customer service experience is an area that he is actively working on, exploring the opportunity to combine online techniques to established legal processes such as arbitration and mediation.

Hugo Marynissen is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Executive Learning and Leadership at Cranfield University, School of Management (UK). Hugo’s field of research is in organisational behaviour, and more specific on the relationship between communication and perception in organisations. He holds an MSc in Change Management from HEC Business School (Paris) and Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) and he is a guest lecturer at various business schools in the EU. Besides, Hugo is a frequent speaker at international conferences and boardroom meetings of various multinational companies. Over the last three years, Hugo has been coaching and consulting more than 10 multinational companies regarding issues on risk management, organisational change, and employee engagement.

Hugo is an active member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the Neuroleadership Institute, and the Change Leaders. The Society for Risk Analysis is an academic society that combines theory and practices of risk analysis from researchers from a wide range of disciplines. The Neuroleadership Institute focuses on the field of study and exploration that involves looking at leadership development and human performance improvement through the lens of understanding how the brain works. The Change Leaders is a community of practice network under the umbrella of the University of Oxford.

Hugo published multiple papers on the relationship between organisational communication and perception. In June and July 2012 he will be a speaker at the annual ISPSO symposium in San Diego, the International Conference on Engaged Management Scholarship (UK), and the World Congress on Risk (Australia).

Bruce McAlister is General Counsel International for GE Aviation, a leading manufacturer and service provider of commercial and military aircraft engines, aero engine derivatives and aircraft systems. GE Aviation is a division of General Electric Company, whose divisions comprise of GE Energy, GE Technology Infrastructure, GE Capital and GE Home & Business Solutions.

Bruce leads a team of over 50 colleagues and is responsible for the provision of legal and compliance services for in-country support outside of the Americas. His team is comprised of commercial / corporate counsels, international trade controls professionals, compliance leaders, and both civil and military contract managers. Bruce has extensive experience in corporate acquisitions / disposals and joint ventures in the emerging markets, leading complex cross-border international transactions, and compliance / regulatory investigations in both commercial and defense sectors.

Bruce graduated from the University of Natal with a B.A and LLB degrees, and completed a masters degree from Cranfield University. He has previously worked for Adams & Adams in South Africa and Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw in London.

Anthony McQuillan is Vice President, Legal & Compliance, Europe at Medtronic International in Switzerland, responsible for leading Legal & Compliance support for the European operations of Medtronic, the world’s leading medical device company.

Since joining Medtronic in 2002, Anthony has held several positions in Medtronic’s international legal organization, including 6 years as Legal Director for Emerging Markets/CEE. He is an active member of the Eucomed Legal Affairs Group and has recently been appointed Vice-Chairman of the Eucomed Compliance Network.

Anthony is a UK-qualified solicitor and Cambridge graduate. He qualified and spent the first years of his career with Herbert Smith in London and Paris, and prior to joining Medtronic, worked in-house for the Elf Aquitaine group and Hewlett-Packard.

Tom Melbye Eide comes with over 20 years experience and has spent the last 6 years at Statoil. Tom has a strong legal background within the private and public sector, ranging from national and international finance with specialist competence in regulation of European capital and the finance market. Tom joined Statoil as a senior vice president and has since been General Counsel and most recently launched Statoil’s Global Strategy and Business Development department with an aim to use his experience and focus on targeting key growth areas and developing the company’s international future.

Tom has held several positions prior to joining Statoil, including working as General Counsel and EVP for the largest general insurance company in the Nordic region, If P&C Insurance Ltd. He has also held senior positions at the Legal department in the Storebrand group (1996-99), and has been legal adviser for the Ministry of Finance (1993-96) and the Ministry of Industry and Energy (1992). Prior to this he worked with Wikborg, Rein & Co and Rime, Ro & Sommernes, Norwegian law firms as attorney at law.

Tom has a law degree from the University of Oslo (1985), a master's degree in law from Kings College in London (1990).

When Tom finds some down time from his busy travel schedule he enjoys skiing, sailing and a good book.

Xavier Monange was appointed Vice President Compliance and Member of the Board of Meggitt Sensing Systems in October 2011. His role encompasses oversight of Governance, Ethics, Risk Management and Legal Compliance across sites spread internationally.

Prior to joining Meggitt, Xavier spent 14 years with Sextant Avionique, then Thales, where he held various positions on operational as well as corporate levels. After some years as Head of Purchasing of a business unit, he created the Export Control organization of Thales’ Aerospace division where he developed an expertise internally and externally recognized. He went on to lead the whole continuous improvement program of the division.

Xavier stepped up to the Corporate organization of Thales, as Director Ethics and Corporate Responsibility standards, where he designed bribery prevention policies, and then Director Risk & Compliance, where he deployed full scale risk management plans throughout the 50-some countries of the international organization of Thales.

Xavier graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Grenoble (France) / University of Limerick (Ireland) and holds a Master’s degree in Supply Chain management from Bordeaux Business School.

Xavier Monange has been active in many international workshops within the United Nations Global Compact or the International Chamber of Commerce. He was the first secretary of the Business Ethics Committee of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) and played a decisive role in the founding of the US-EU International Forum on Business Ethics Conduct (IFBEC). Xavier is currently the representative of the Swiss professional association Swissmem to several committees of the ASD.

Jason has been with Clearwell, now part of Symantec since July 2009 he brings with him over a decade of sales management and business development experience. He is responsible for growing revenue within enterprise markets across Europe and developing and supporting litigation support partners by building key relationships within law firms.

Prior to Clearwell, Jason was a RSM for Guidance Software. During his time there, Jason dramatically increased revenue across all market sectors, delivering unparalleled support business’ client base. Jason has also worked for Entuity – a network management solution where he was instrumental in growing a successful channel model and growing revenue in new markets.

Jason has also held roles within McAfee Associates and other leading security software vendors.

John Ogilvie acts for commercial clients across a wide range of complex contentious issues. His work covers general commercial disputes, including disputes arising out of corporate M&A transactions, professional negligence, energy and mining disputes, international disputes in emerging markets, claims in relation to agents, media and art related disputes. Previously John was Head of the Hong Kong litigation and arbitration practice.

Jane Player recently joined King & Spalding as a partner in its Disputes Department. Jane specialises in high-value commercial contractual claims often with an international profile to the client base. She has been involved in a number of large scale multiparty litigation and arbitration matters for both UK and international clients and, in particular, complex joint venture and share purchase agreement disputes, professional negligence and fraud investigations.

Jane is also an accredited mediator and has been involved in a large number of mediations both in the UK and internationally, particularly for the technology sector which includes life sciences. Additionally, Jane has developed a reputation for risk management advisory work, assisting clients to avoid disputes at an early stage.

Lord (Peter) Goldsmith QC, PC, Chair of European and Asian Litigation, joined Debevoise as European Chair of Litigation in September 2007. Lord Goldsmith served as the UK’s Attorney General from 2001-2007, prior to which he was in private practice as one of the leading barristers in London.

Lord Goldsmith practised from Fountain Court Chambers from 1972-2001, specialising principally in commercial, corporate and international litigation and appellate work. During this time he was ranked by Chambers UK 2000-01 as being in the top tier of leading silks in London for international arbitration and commercial litigation. He became Queen’s Counsel in 1987 at the early age of 37 and has judicial experience as a Crown Court Recorder and a Deputy High Court Judge. Consistently acknowledged for his prominence, American Lawyer states that ‘[he has] the advocacy skills of one of the finest barristers of his generation.’

Lord Goldsmith was appointed Attorney General in 2001, acting as chief legal adviser to the government on matters of domestic, European and international law. He represented the government in numerous cases in UK and international courts.

He has appeared in many cases in the House of Lords, the Privy Council and the Court of Appeal as well as international and European courts and in the courts of a number of other jurisdictions. Significant work includes leading cases on auditors’ liability; insurance and takeover law; banking law; company law; insolvency litigation; revenue cases; public law and public international law; and arbitration. A list of representative cases is available on request.

He was a graduate in law from Cambridge University with double first class honours and a Master’s from University College London. He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1972 and New South Wales in 2010.

Catriona Razic is Co-Founder and Director of e-learning firm Inmarkets, one of the leading companies offering GRC e-learning solutions. She has 15 years experience of developing optimised corporate training initiatives and has overseen many complex e-learning implementations in large organisations. She currently advises global firms on communication strategies for a bribery and corruption free environment, with the use of e-learning and other web-based tools. Inmarkets have delivered Anti-Bribery e-learning to hundreds of organisations, and Catriona has a wealth of experience of ensuring the message delivered to the learner is highly relevant and practical. She has partnered with consultancies such as PwC to offer services to their clients, and with Transparency International UK to build their ‘benchmark’ anti-bribery e-learning solution, “Doing Business Without Bribery”.

Rossen Roussev has 25 years of international experience in ethics and compliance, corporate communications, strategic intelligence, planning and business operations, market research and consulting, enterprise restructuring and HR, reputation management, learning and development, and stakeholder management. His career path includes positions at the United States Information Agency, Apple, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and the United Nations. From 1999 to 2010, he worked with Royal Dutch Shell, most recently as Global Head of Policy and External Relations. Achievements include the establishment of a Strategic Compliance and Intelligence unit in a simplified, standardized, and cost efficient way to a company spanning 142 countries and over 140,000 employees. Resulting company-wide process optimization saved Shell more than $14 million. As a senior independent advisor, Rossen currently provides strategic guidance and manages execution and delivery to a large number of Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Roussev is based in the South of France with his wife and three children and speaks six languages.

Mel Rowlands is General Counsel of British Gas, part of Centrica plc (a FTSE 30 oil and gas company). She heads up the legal, regulatory and compliance functions and sits on the British Gas executive team. Her team of around 80 includes energy regulation specialists and FSA compliance specialists as well as lawyers. Mel led the group through the Retail Market Review by Ofgem and the first Arrow review of its Insurance business. Before British Gas Mel was in-house for nearly 15 years being Deputy General Counsel at BG Group (where she project managed the demerger of the Transco business (ultimately) to National Grid). She then left natural gas to work for industrial gases company BOC plc, which became Linde Group AG, where she was General Counsel EMEA. She left there to join one of the former BOC businesses, Edwards Limited (when it was sold to private equity company CCMP Capital) as part of the management team and sitting on the Board as Company Secretary. Whilst there she took on the dual role of HR Director and Legal Director, working extensively in Asia Pacific countries. Mel holds an MA in law from Oxford University and specializes in all areas of corporate/corporate finance law and practice.

Alex Simpson is Legal Director at Asda, Britain's second-largest food retailer. Asda is also a key part of Walmart - the world's leading retailer, generating around a third of its international division sales here in the UK.

Alex leads a team of lawyers across Asda, George and IPL (the UK's single biggest importer of produce), with responsibility for legal advice on Employment, Intellectual Property, Financial Services, Competition, Data Protection, Commercial, Corporate and other regulatory matters including CDR. Before joining Asda in December 2010, Alex was Group Commercial Lawyer at Northern Foods plc .

Alex studied Economics & History at Queen's University, Belfast and Trinity College Dublin before completing his legal training at the College of Law. He trained at Walker Morris in Leeds specialising in Corporate law.

Outside work Alex is advised by his two children (5 and 3) and also enjoys cycling and rugby although not necessarily at the same time.

Mark worked as a solicitor for ten years, specialising in technology and outsourcing work, including four years in-house where he led the international legal team at a global outsourcing provider. After completing his MBA, he subsequently held strategy and consulting positions before spending a year working in a legal process outsourcing business. Mark joined LexisNexis in 2011 as Director of Practice Areas, where he leads a team concentrating specifically on the needs of in-house lawyers and General Counsel.

Yvonne Smyth, Managing Director, Hays Legal, Hays Specialist Recruitment

Yvonne has headed the specialist legal and company secretarial recruitment divisions of Hays since 2005. She has 15 years recruitment experience across professional services firms and FTSE 350 organisations in the UK and overseas. She is regularly called upon by management teams to advise on strategies relating to the recruitment and retention of legal professionals and teams and is also actively involved in the London business community as a Hays Ambassador. Before joining Hays, and from 1992-1996 she practised law in London at the international law firm Norton Rose, specialising in reinsurance law. She obtained an LLB Hons degree from Cardiff University and her post graduate legal studies were completed at the College of Law in Guildford.

Rob Thomas is Vice President, Strategic Development for Serengeti Law. Rob was an architect of Serengeti’s online matter management/ebilling system, the most widely adopted legal platform worldwide. Serengeti is currently used by more than 125,000 legal professionals in 180 countries to efficiently track and report on legal spending, documents, budgets, progress, and results. Because of its broad acceptance in the profession, the Serengeti attorney evaluation methodology was adopted by the ACC for its Value Index. Rob created the ACC/Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel Survey (now in its tenth year), and is the author of the 170+ page annual survey report. This report analyses the latest trends in the inhouse legal profession regarding the management of work with outside counsel. His articles have appeared in the ABA’s Law Practice Management, ACC's Docket, ILTA’s Peer-to-Peer, and European GC.

Prior to joining Serengeti, Rob had more than twenty years of diverse experiences as a practicing attorney. He handled complex litigation and corporate finance transactions for the largest commercial law firm in Seattle, after which he handled international transactions at a Tokyo law firm. For twelve years, he managed complex litigation and acquisitions for large corporate clients of the Seattle firm of Stokes Lawrence. He served as managing partner of the firm, and coordinated national projects involving teams of both in-house and outside counsel. Rob received his undergraduate degree with honors from Princeton University, and his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review.

Satnam Tumani is head of the Bribery and Corruption and International Assistance Business Areas at the Serious Fraud Office, responsible for the operational delivery of cases from acceptance through to investigation & prosecution.

Satnam is a solicitor who joined the SFO in 1995. He was one of the first trainee solicitors employed by the SFO and his career at the SFO has included secondments to a city law firm, the Treasury Solicitor and most recently the National Fraud Authority.

His early career at the SFO involved assisting senior prosecutors on a number of market abuse cases. Thereafter he has investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of casework including corruption, commercial fraud, insider dealing and investment frauds.

Satnam Tumani was previously the head of the Individual & Investment Fraud area and then a specialist casework area involving allegations of overseas corruption and breaches of sanctions.

Mr. Van Erps has been with the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission since 1991. During his first 7 years in DG Competition he worked in the antitrust unit dealing with the pharmaceutical, agriculture and consumer good sectors. Thereafter, he joined for almost 3 years the so-called Merger Task Force. From 2001 to 2004, he returned to his original antitrust sectoral unit and became a Deputy Head of Unit. After a brief spell at the Energy Unit in early 2005, he became in May 2005 a Head of Unit in the Cartels Directorate. In the Cartels Directorate, he managed the investigations in the following sectors: methacrylates, BR/ESBR (synthetic rubber), alloy surcharge (re-adoption), professional videotapes, power transformers, prestressing steel and LCD. Dirk also manages the Forensic IT and the Inability to Pay teams.

Dirk Van Erps is a lawyer by education. He obtained a law degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in 1986. In 1987 he obtained an LL.M. degree in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

Sonja began her career with the main Belgian media group, Roularta, as account manager for their professional publications resulting into marketing manager during the last two years. She joined Interactive Dialogues in 2001 as account manager for Benefralux and Denmark. In that role she was responsible for the development and deployment of numerous legal - ethical compliance programmes and global communication projects for blue-chip companies; with a special focus on helping UK companies in the area of compliance learning as of 2008. Since February 2011, Sonja has been taking on the responsibility of business development manager and is member of the Interactive Dialogues executive management.

Philip undertakes a broad range of contentious work: High Court litigation, arbitration and expert determination. He acts for major corporations, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He is a solicitor-advocate, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and member of the City of London Law Society Litigation Sub-Committee.

In addition to commercial litigation, Philip is also recognised as a leading practitioner in the field of Administrative Law, regularly acting in judicial review proceedings for or against Government departments or regulators. He also advises on the personal liabilities of directors, questions of corporate governance, and is a director of the Solicitors Indemnity Mutual Insurance Association Ltd.

Matt joined BLP in 2011 to run their client facing value-added services. He also runs the legal risk management group, helping key clients to identify and mitigate legal risks and report value to their boards.

Prior to working at Berwin Leighton Paisner, Matt was responsible for Global Risk, Reporting and Knowledge Management projects at HSBC Group Legal.

Simon Walters is General Counsel of Carnival UK, the UK division of Carnival Corporation & plc, the FTSE 100/S&P 500 listed world leader in the cruise industry.

Simon’s role involves global legal responsibility for the operations of the P&O Cruises and Cunard Line brands. In addition, Simon chairs both the Ethics Committee and the Risk Committee at Carnival UK and is also a member of the Carnival UK Board.

Simon is a UK-qualified solicitor and graduate of Exeter University. He spent the early years of his career in progressively senior positions in the Pharmaceutical and Information Technology industries, before joining Carnival UK in 2006 as its first General Counsel.

Clare is Group Legal Director of Kingfisher Plc, which is Europe's leading home improvement retailer and the third largest in the world, with around 840 stores in 8 countries in Europe and Asia. They have market leading positions in the UK, France, Poland, Turkey and China. Prior to joining Kingfisher this summer, Clare was Company Secretary and General Counsel of Tube Lines Limited and prior to this she was Head of Post Office Ltd Legal Services where among other things she was responsible for legal advice on telecoms, financial services, mails and government services products as well as competition, data protection and freedom of information, health and safety and other regulatory matters, including dispute resolution. She was called to the bar in 1984, joined Lovells in 1986 and then moved to the Post Office in 1996.

Ken van der Wolf is Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel at Koninklijke Ahold N.V. His core tasks cover a broad variety of compliance issues such as maintenance of the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics, whistleblower line management, privacy protection, coordination of global training initiatives and maintenance of the internal and external certification process. Ken chairs the Ahold Global Compliance Team and coordinates the Global Compliance initiatives in this capacity. He further participates in Ahold’s Information Security Committee.

Ken started his career as candidate civil law notary at NautaDutilh in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and subsequently worked as a legal counsel in the civil engineering industry. Before joining Ahold in 2007, he worked as an independent legal consultant and participated in various compliance projects and investigations in the banking sector.