Kate Gregory Email & Phone Number

Barnsley, Yorkshire

Non Executive Board Director and Chair of the Audit Committee.Acting as a shareholder representative monitoring financial performance against business plans.Role include corporate strategy and business planning, acquisition and disposal proposals, corporate reorganisations and structuring, appointment of professional advisers, governance and competition issues.Symphony is a manufacturing company with an annual turnover of c.£300m and 1500 employees.

- Governor- Member of Finance Committee- Member of Organisational Development and Remuneration Committee

London, United Kingdom

Director and trustee of a charitable organisation. Independent board member and trustee appointed by the College Board. Responsibilities include the following: - establishing appropriate systems of governance- providing commercial and business advice to the board and the CEO on long-term partnerships and other commercial arrangements- supporting the college's evolution from a start-up state to a membership-based professional association for general dentistry.The College of General Dentistry has been founded to enhance public and private patient benefit in dentistry by promoting and supporting professionalism in general dental practice and primary care dentistry.

London, United Kingdom

Providing consultancy services on strategy, legal issues and business models to various UK based companies on an hourly and day rate basis

London, United Kingdom

Managed a team of lawyers providing legal services globally (ex-US) to Pearson Education Limited and a number of other related businesses.Involved in contracting and high value tendering worldwide (ex-US)Crisis management including dealing with litigation and issues with regulatorsRegulatory and compliance issues (dealing with regulators,data privacy,economic regulation,internal audit)Director of Pearson Language Assessments Ltd and NCS Pearson PTY Ltd

Stevenage, United Kingdom

Drafting and negotiation of contracts, updating group policies, litigation and employment issues, corporate re-organisation issues, staff mentoring

London, United Kingdom

Provision of legal consultancy services to the Department of Health on high value public procurements health services contracts including acting as lead lawyer on £3.5 billion procurement of surgical procedures

London, United Kingdom

Set up legal team when the Company was split from its parent, the Civil Aviation Authority ,prior to its transfer to the private sector and the creation of a public private partnership (PPP). Responsible for all legal aspects of putting in place the PPP (including a new regulatory and corporate structure, sale process and new banking arrangements). Negotiating various major IT projects, both UK and international. Negotiating capital structure and bank/bond financing packagesCrisis management including solvency issues post 9/11 and litigation

London, United Kingdom

Part of a legal team advising on litigation, employment issues, criminal prosecutions, planning inquiries

London, United Kingdom

Trainee solicitor and then assistant solicitor qualifying into the commercial litigation department