Tom Ford Email & Phone Number

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Responsible for providing legal advice and assistance to Syniverse's international operations (EMEA, India & Asia Pacific) including routine and specialized legal services, such as transactional, contract and litigation management. Syniverse makes mobile work for more than 1,500 of the world's top mobile operators, cable and Internet providers, social networks, enterprises and application service providers.

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Promoted to the position of General Counsel, Europe responsible for supporting the Covidien’s European businesses:- Managed and recruited additional members to a European team of 7 legal professionals. Mentored and coached the team, ensuring team objectives aligned with business imperatives.- Proactively partnered with business units leadership operating in the European region to ensure legal and compliance risks were identified and mitigated.- Initiated increase in European law department productivity by engaging alternative legal service providers on key projects.- Led multidisciplinary project team on the implementation of a business process reorganization of the company’s European compliance program. Successfully adopted knowledge management, lean business process concepts with a shared service approach, resulting in step change in efficiency of compliance processes.

Luxembourg

As Deputy General Counsel EMEA provided day to day counseling to the Covidien businesses operating in the EMEA region:- Supported Covidien businesses on all their commercial agreements and provided insightful, proactive, timely and value adding legal and commercial advice to a diverse group of dynamic medical technology businesses.- Working with US based Corporate M&A and business unit counsel, supported the execution of Covidien’s strategy to manage its business portfolio through numerous acquisitions and divestitures.- Compliance officer for the European region, responsible for localizing the Covidien corporate compliance program for the EMEA region. Chaired grants and compliance committee and led the region’s effort in carrying out a compliance assessment project.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Counsel to the Linde Healthcare division, a global business unit of The Linde Group. Present in over 50 countries, extensively involved in the development of therapies and diagnostic procedures, where gases, gas technology or gas competence is needed. In surgeries, emergency services, intensive care, clinics and home care, the company offers a broad spectrum of products and services to support medical practitioners and their patients.Responsible for supporting Hospital, Homecare and Innovation segments of the business.

Windlesham, Surrey

Proactive, business focussed counsel to the BOC packaged gases business, a £450m turnover business operating in UK, Ireland and Poland. Broad variety of commercial legal work including support for the BOC Healthcare business.

London, United Kingdom

Business development manager for OnCue Telecommunications Limited, a Soros Private Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Private Equity Partners and T D Capital backed start up telecommunications company formed to offer broadband services to businesses as part of local loop unbundling in the UK.

Abingdon

Commercial manager for Messier-Dowty a TI Group Snecma JV landing gear company and Dowty Aerospace, the aerospace division of TI Group, which was acquired by Smiths Industries in 2000 and subsequently sold to GE in 2007 becoming GE Aviation Systems.

London, United Kingdom

Trained and qualified with Norton Rose working in London and Singapore offices. Qualified into corporate finance department. Spent six month secondment working for boutique investment bank Pheonix Securities.

Diploma, European Competition Law

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Solicitors Finals, Law

Cpe, Law

B.Soc.Sci., Geography