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Reading, United Kingdom

Paddington, London, Uk

Heading up Vodafone’s first Legal Operations team, with a wide portfolio encompassing: (i) legal technology & innovation; (ii) panel management and legal services procurement; (iii) knowledge management and training; (iv) oversight of Vodafone Shared Services legal team & interface to Vodafone Shared Services service offerings for legal; (v) internal functional communication campaigns; and (vi) special projects for General Counsel.Developed Vodafone’s first legal technology strategy & first interface to Office IT, resulting in faster and broader adoption of legal technology across the Vodafone global legal function. Introduced and/or improved key legal tech platforms including: (i) automated Contract Lifecycle Management for procurement contracting; (ii) internal comms / social media for global legal function; (iii) digitalised legal services procurement; (iv) workflow tools for process improvement; (v) automated drafting assistance tool; (vi) chatbots; and (vii) knowledge management. Refreshed the Vodafone legal panel, resulting in a laser focus on use of future facing deliver mechanisms such as AI. Introduced a targeted panel firm training programme. Functional reporting line from Vodafone Shared Services General Counsel based in Pune: oversight of this team which is responsible for supporting a community of 20,000 employees worlwide.Direct report to Vodafone Global General Counsel. Member of the Group Legal Management Team and Global Legal Leadership Team.

Newbury / Paddington, Uk

Dual role: (i) providing deliberately light touch leadership and strategic direction to Legal Technology deal team & (ii) spending majority of time creating and managing a Legal Innovation Knowledge and Excellence team.Oversaw the legal contracting strategy for the “NewVo” global CRM & Billing transformation programme and other strategic projects. Co-ordination and delivery of “Legal 2020” Transformation Programme for the General Counsel. Sponsor / Lead on “Relationships with Advisors” workstream.

Newbury, Uk

Hands on operational leadership of the largest Vodafone team of deal lawyers (15). Member of Northern Europe Sales Director’s Management team & Group Enterprise Legal management team.Successfully delivered full service legal support to contracting activities on mobile, fixed, IoT, cloud & hosting and other business lines across 2 financial year ends.Spearheaded a transformation programme to re-engineer contract templates, playbooks, guidance, self-service capabilities to empower business colleagues and risk management processes, resulting in significant reduction in time to contract.

Paddington, London, Uk

Managed a team of 7 lawyers handling big ticket global outsourcing deals and re-negotations and lead a strategic transformation of legal support to procurement activity.Architected a suite of IT Domain contracts with Vodafone’s largest IT suppliers.Re-engineered the legal toolkit including: (i) “shorter simpler, relevant, readable, reasonable contracts”; (ii) playbooks and guidance materials; (iii) refreshed supplier policies etc – all at significant volume, speed and scale across 26 operating companies. Established and bedded-in near-shore (Belfast), mid-shore (Budapest) and offshore (Delhi) legal delivery units.

Newbury, Uk

Lead lawyer on Vodafone’s biggest global business / IT transformation project, the “EVO Programme”. Direct engagement with Group CFO as ExCo programme sponsor for the EVO Programme. Effective supplier management programme focusing on time / scope / quality / price and ways of working. Collapsed original structure and re-contracted for 2nd generation programme. Note: The “EVO Programme” had a project team of 1000 people and was showcased in a joint study by SAP and Cambridge University as one of the most successful SAP implementation programmes.

Newbury, Uk

Portfolio of disputes and investigations conducted as part of the Group Legal Rotational Development Programme (and therefore in the middle of my time as Senior Solicitor Special Projects). Exposure to e-discovery technology.

Bristol, Uk

Working on bespoke procurement contracts to support the UK retail banking business including TV/video production, in-branch entertainment services and associated hardware.

Wimborne, Airtanker Offices Bristol, Clifford Chance Offices Canary Wharf

Strategic legal advisor to the FSTA Executive team and Board. Working interface to operating companies, represented Cobham as acting chairperson of the Programme Legal Working Group and Commercial Working Group for the Programme. Negotiation of equity and sub-contracts including flow downs. Note: FSTA was the largest ever PFI Programme at the time. The consortium included EADS (Airbus), Thales, Rolls Royce, VT Group plc and Cobham plc.

Reading, Uk

Corporate transactional partner in award winning team - advising on a broad range of company/commercial work including M&A, joint ventures, reorganisations, commercial agreements (predominantly large outsourcing agreements), and pre-litigation dispute resolution. Much of the work had cross-border aspects across Europe, the USA and Asia. Leadership of the M&A Team: Responsible for client relationship management, financial control and budgets, co-ordination of service delivery teams and value added services. Client partner for multiple clients.Sector Head Financial Services (2004-2005)Head of M&A Team in the Thames Valley Office (2003-2005)Partner (2002-2005)Senior Associate (2000-2002)

Bournemouth, Uk

Early career in regional law firm. Varied diet of corporate and commercial transactional work for FTSE 250 companies and medium sized businesses. Partner (1999-2000)Associate (1998-1999)Solicitor (1995-1998) Trainee Solicitor (1993-1995)

Law Society Finals

Guildford

Common Professional Exam (Law)

Master Of Arts - Ma, Theology

Trinity College

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