Guy Pendell
Partner, Head of Disputes
CMS

Guy Pendell is a versatile commercial disputes partner based in London. He has been a partner since 2005 and has over 20 years’ experience handling corporate/commercial disputes. His experience spans commercial arbitration where, as a solicitor advocate, he often undertakes all the advocacy, and litigation. His main areas of work include corporate/M&A disputes, technology, media and telecoms, international projects, aviation and finance disputes. He also has years of experience handling disputes in the hotels and consumer products sectors.

Over the years, Guy has been involved in hundreds of arbitrations under the rules of most of the leading institutions across many jurisdictions and governing laws. His experience is predominantly in international commercial arbitration, including emergency arbitration proceedings, as well as investment arbitration. When his workload permits, he also sits as an arbitrator.

Guy is one of a few London practitioners with leading rankings in both arbitration and litigation in the major legal directories. He has been credited as “giving clients the best chance of winning”. He is also ranked as a Thought Leader and recommended Global Leader in Who’s Who Legal.

https://cms.law/en/gbr/people/guy-pendell

Andreas Bong
Partner – Co-Leader, Legal Operations Transformation Services
KPMG

Andreas Bong is a partner at KPMG Law and since 2018 part of the firm. He is one of the most renowned experts on legal transformation in the European market. Since 2008 he has been advising legal and IP departments in their (digital) transformation to a faster, more efficient and even more risk-conscious setup. Andreas is a trusted reference for General Counsels on all strategic, organizational and operational challenges and a demanded speaker at numerous international Legal Conferences and Events. Previously, he was managing partner of a consulting firm specialized in legal departments until the acquisition by KPMG Law.

Sally-Anne Hinfey
Vice President & Global Head of Privacy, Momentive

Sally Hinfey is Vice President and Global Head of Privacy in the legal and corporate affairs team of Momentive (makers of SurveyMonkey). Responsible for all matters group wide related to privacy,/data protection as well as advising on aspects of product/ consumer law, commercial contracts and related issues. Sally was SurveyMonkey’s first legal hire outside the US and was SurveyMonkey Europe UC Data Protection Officer from May 2018 – December 2019 providing important advice and guidance in the wake of the General Data Protection Regulation. She also sits on the Board of Trustees for the Academy of European Law in Trier and takes a great interest in public policy and regulatory developments at the European level.

Ruud van Herpen
Chief Legal Officer, Xebia Group

Ruud is a seasoned legal management executive with close to 30 years of experience in various legal roles and is currently CLO at Xebia International Group. Xebia is a worldwide, innovative IT Consultancy Company, operating on a global scale with a team over 5,000 consultants helping the world’s top 250 companies and category leaders overcome digital challenges, embrace innovation, adopt new technology and implement new business models. Ruud has laid out a challenging digital transformation path for the legal department to become a fully digitalized and AI driven department by the start of 2025.

Julienne Jameson
General Legal Counsel & Data Protection Officer
Ewopharma

Julienne has been the General Counsel and DPO for the Ewopharma Group, a pharmaceutical sales and marketing company, for nearly 10 years. She leads a legal team in Ireland which is responsible for 18 jurisdictions. She is a regular speaker at events in relation to inhouse counsel, commercial contracts, and data privacy. She is also a member of the DSBA Inhouse Counsel Committee.

Denis Kelleher
Head of Privacy (EMEA), LinkedIn

Denis is the author of several text books on data protection law including EU Data Protection Law (Bloomsbury Professional 2018) with Karen Murray and Privacy and Data Protection Law in Ireland (Bloomsbury Professional) 2015.  He delivers the Professional Certificate in Data Protection for the Institute of Banking (UCD).  Previously he was a Senior Legal Counsel in the Central Bank of Ireland, Advisory Counsel in the Office of the Attorney General and Legal Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union.

Gianluca Campus

Head of Legal – Legal Tech and Digital Innovation, Sky Italia 

Gianluca Campus is a head counsel and qualified lawyer specialized in intellectual property, tech and telecommunications laws. He has a PhD in Law and is Fellow of the University of Milan. During his academic course, he has been post-doc researcher in the University of Foggia and winner of a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Programme. He is co-editor of the Media Blog Medialaws.eu and contributor of the international IP blogs Kluwer Copyright Blog and of the European Intellectual Property Review. He currently holds the position Head of Legal Tech and Digital Innovation in the Sky Italia Legal Team.

Antonio Papalino
Senior Legal Counsel – L’Oréal Italia

Antonio is legal manager at L’Oréal Group in Italy, where he coordinates the Real Estate and Antitrust teams.
He regularly provides the legal assistance to both the holding and its subsidiaries, advising the company in Italian and European Antitrust law, Corporate Law, IP Law and Real Estate Law.
Prior to working with L’Oréal, he was a commercial and corporate legal counsel at the Carrefour Group.

Former student at Collegio Europeo di Parma, he is an italian qualified lawyer and a member of AIGI , the Italian in-house counsel association.

Matt Pollins
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer
Lupl

Matt Pollins is the Co-Founder of Lupl, an open industry platform co-developed with the support of an international community of law firms and legal departments. Lupl is a collaborative project management tool that makes it easier and faster for lawyers and their clients to get to “closed”, “won” or “done”.

Before founding Lupl, Matt was a Partner at CMS, a top-10 global law firm, where he led the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) practice in Asia-Pacific. He has worked as a strategic advisor to companies from startups to multi-national companies and governments on technology, law and the intersection of the two. Matt has also worked closely with corporate legal departments, both as an in-house counsel and consulting on process and technology.

Matt has been recognised as a “Leading” and “Tier 1” practitioner in technology law by multiple directories and his team has won multiple awards, including TMT team of the year in 2018-19 and 2019-20.

Colm O’Connor
Director of Legal Affairs, SCOR Ireland

Prior to his present position at SCOR, Colm was a lawyer in the City of London with international law firm Clyde & Co. Whilst at Clyde & Co., Colm gained considerable experience advising on corporate and commerical matters as part of a team ranked Tier 1 in the UK by the Legal 500 and Band 1 by Chambers. In addition, he completed a nine month secondment into the Lloyd’s of London market with Sompo Canopius and a three month secondment with Markel. Colm has also worked in Malta where he was a corporate lawyer with Ganado Advocates’ market leading corporate team (ranked Legal 500 Tier 1 and Chambers Band 1).

Sarah Irwin
Head of Legal
Tines

Sarah is Head of Legal at Tines, the Irish cybersecurity no-code automation start up helping companies deal with fast-evolving security challenges in a scalable way. Tines’s no-code automation platform allows anyone, regardless of technical ability, to automate repetitive, monotonous, manual work, enabling them to stay ahead of the curve and freeing up their time to spend on higher value work.

Sarah is Founder and Chair of Irish Tech General Counsel, a new, independent community which she set up in 2022 to enable innovative legal professionals working at tech companies in Ireland to connect and share knowledge and expertise within an inclusive, empowering and supportive environment, and to prevent members from becoming isolated in their working lives.

Sarah has 13 years’ experience as a lawyer across two jurisdictions, having first trained and worked as a barrister in London, then later cross-qualifying as a corporate/technology solicitor in Ireland, and ultimately pivoting into in-house practice at Tines. In 2022, Sarah was included in the Legal500 GC Powerlist: Ireland. She is a huge advocate of legal operations and legal tech and leverages both as part of her strategy in effectively building out an in-house function from scratch at a rapidly scaling start up, including in particular Ironclad (CLM software) and Johnson Hana (legal operations).

Sarah is passionate about diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging and co-founded the DIEB group at Tines, on a mission to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in tech, and in particular, cybersecurity.