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Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Led the Legal GenAI practice for the Asia Pacific NewLaw practice. Developed the FY24 and FY25 strategy for the Asia Pacific NewLaw practice, working with Leaders across Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.Completed 22 engagements, 68 workshops, 13 conference / seminar presentations, and 5 rountables on Legal GenAI, Microsoft for Legal, Legal Tech, Legal Innovation, Legal market trends, Legal Transformation, CLM, and Legal Managed Services across Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, and Philippines

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Developed the Asia Pacific NewLaw business case and FY23 strategy. Worked with Leaders in Australia, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam to develop and build the NewLaw service offering, GTM, and delivery capability. Australia practice: Completed 5 engagements (strategy and market analysis), 6 workshops (Legal transformation, Legal GenAI, Legal Managed Services), and presentations at ALPMA Conference 2022, Chilli IQ Law Tech Summit 2022.New Zealand practice: Completed 2 legal transformation workshops and presentation at LawFest 2022

Singapore, Sg

ASEAN LegalTech is a platform to connect LegalTech pioneers, thought leaders and enthusiasts to promote and build the LegalTech ecosystem in the South East Asian markets. ASEAN LegalTech’s goal is to provide a voice to the emerging market to inform discussions with regulators in the ASEAN region by:• Building, connecting and growing a community for LegalTech in the ASEAN region through an online platform and monthly events (meet ups, legal hackathons, industry presentations, etc).• Starting the LegalTech dialogue in the ASEAN region and specifically in the region’s legal industry.• Building a platform to feature and cultivate the growth of the LegalTech scene in the ASEAN region.• Promoting entrepreneurial culture amongst legal industry constituents, namely lawyers (private practice and in-house lawyers), technologists and regulators.• Building the the go-to platform for thought leadership initiatives on LegalTech in the ASEAN region

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Alpha Creates helps leaders build better businesses in the legal industry through innovation gigs, strategy engagements and technology projects.We deliver on-demand access to industry-leading legal innovators, strategists and technologists, accelerating legal innovation for all legal consumers, regardless of size.

Strategy:• Worked with the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia on trends in the legal services industry from the buyer’s perspective.• Worked with world's largest network of top-tier law firms in the Asia-Pacific region across 10 countries on trends in the Asia-Pacific legal industry and strategies to compete.• Strategy and business plan for start-up migration firm.• Presented on the state of NewLaw and LegalTech to a NewLaw firm in the USA.• Best practice business development strategy paper for national law firm.Thought leadership:• Presented on forces shaping firms of the future in the $90.6 billion Asia-Pacific legal industry at ALPMA's Regional Law Firm Management Forum.• Co-author 2018 Australia: State of the Legal Market with Joel Barolsky for Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor report.• Presented paper on the global LegalTech ecosystem to Stanford Law's CodeX.• Presented on the competitive forces shaping the $90.6 billion Asia-Pacific legal industry at Legal Forum Asia.• Presented on the global LegalTech ecosystem at LegalTech Fest Australia.• Presented on state of the $23 billion Australian legal industry at Boutique and Small Firm Managing Partners Forum.• Contributed papers to publications like Australasian Law Management Journal, ABA Publishing and The Australian Corporate Lawyer.• Contributed insights to media outlets like Asia Law Portal, Financial Review, Legal IT Insider and Lawyers Weekly.• Contributed to Doing Business in Myanmar report for Duanne Morris & Selvam and Conventus Law.

Completed 46 Partners/Principals’ strategy retreats, 27 strategy engagements, 19 conferences, 6 M&A engagements, 5 ownership structure assignments and 3 organisation restructuring engagements. Highlights include:M&A deals:• Developed and executed M&A strategy, creating a $100m Australian national law firm. • Consultant to the partnership of a $120m Australian law firm for international merger talks with £300m UK law firm.Strategy:• Developed Best in Class professional service business development strategy for ASX-listed $600m consulting engineering firm.• Stress-test Australia entry strategy for US$1 billion Wall Street law firm.Asia strategy:• Strategy review of one of the Big Four accounting firms’ US$1 billion business unit involving 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region that created an integrated private client advisory practice through inter-jurisdictional client referrals.• Strategy review of one of the world’s largest law firm’s $670m Asia-Pacific practice involving 12 countries to create a more integrated practice for retention of multinational companies and regionalising Asian companies.Speaking engagements:• Keynoted at Law Institute of Victoria’s 2015 Conference of Council on disruptive innovation in the legal profession.• Presentation at The Corporate Executive Board’s 2015 Asia Pacific Chief Legal Officers Council in Singapore on state of the legal profession.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

• Developed two new research products called Fair Value Report and Expertise Report generating new annual revenue stream from existing research data.• Completed 20 research reports on client satisfaction and brand perceptions for accounting, engineering, law and management consulting firms in Australia.• Established Beaton Research + Consulting and The Australian Legal Affairs’ media partnership for quarterly survey of Australia’s largest law firms. • Established the firm’s LinkedIn Group for its annual thought leadership breakfast seminars, First Movers to engage participants online. Membership of the group has swelled to 506 members who are senior executives in professional service firms.• Presented at the firm’s First Movers seminar on State of the professions: competitive forces shaping the industry.• Expanded our client base to the US with first American law firm client.

Professional Services Management

Master Of Business Administration (Mba) And Master Of Commerce (Mcomm) - Distinction

Bachelor Of Business, Economics And Finance