Meet the Speakers

Frédéric Blas is IBM’s EMEA Privacy Counsel supporting legal and business management in addressing complex corporate, IT and privacy matters, with a particular emphasis on cross-border transfers of employees and customers’ personal information in the context of internal service engagements and strategic outsourcing agreements. He has recently switched to private practice as an IT/Corporate Attorney in Barón Abogadoslaw firm in Madrid where he is still advising IBM executives for forward-thinking privacy policies and giving legal support on hardware, software and services complex deals. Frédéric holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Practice from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles(Madrid), a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Corporate and IT Law from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, a Business Law specialist qualification from the Universidad Politécnica de Madridand a Juris Doctor from the Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale(France). He published International data transfers: The Spanish perspective of the necessary quest for global standardsin the Externado University of Colombia Law Review (December 2009). He is used to operate on a global scale, speaking fluent English, French and Spanish and contributing to sustained business growth and legal compliance.

Mike Brown is a founding member of Epiq Systems Ltd, the London office of Epiq Systems Inc (NASDAQ: EPIQ). He holds the position of Sales Director and is responsible for developing the business both in Europe and internationally.

Mike is an expert in e-disclosure software and services and consults with both law firms and corporate organisations of all sizes in response to their requirements for managing major legal review exercises. He now manages the Brussels office and advises and supports European organisations with regard to regulatory investigations, with a particular emphasis on pinpointing relevant documents in very short timeframes.

His previous experience includes working in the London and New York offices of Linklaters where he was instrumental in managing their internal and outsourced electronic litigation support requirements.

Sue Brooks has primarily accountability for the operations activity relating to the day to day management of the Barclays Legal Function. This requires a balanced approach to managing risk, cost efficiency’s, panel management, change management, people and communication. In addition Sue has a wider role working directly for Mark Harding, Barclays Group General Counsel, as his Chief of Staff and drives the strategic direction, functional priorities, cross functional cohesion and law firm relationships.

Prior to joining the Legal Function in 2009 Sue has had a wide variety of roles across the Barclays Group. These roles have included managing large scale operational teams, creating the strategy for Third Party Suppliers and immediately prior to joining the Legal Function held the role of Chief Operating Officer for Barclaycard Technology. She specialises in strategy planning, process re-engineering, portfolio management, relationship management and organisational design.

Andy Byrne has been with Clearwell since the inception of the company and is responsible for developing strategic relationships with key organizations in the e-discovery industry. Andy leverages his experience to identify partnerships that optimize the value offered to Clearwell customers, and has developed multiple channels to deliver end-to-end e-discovery processes to Fortune 50 enterprises, financial institutions, large telecommunications and high technology companies, energy giants, legal departments, and law firms.

Prior to joining Clearwell, Andy co-founded Timestock, Inc., which was acquired by Computer Associates (NYSE: CA) via the acquisition of Wily Technology, Inc. Timestock, Inc. delivered world class enterprise application management solutions to Fortune 500 companies including General Electric, Xerox, Cingular, ADP and E*TRADE Financial. Before Timestock, Andy was Vice President of Marketing at Desana Systems, responsible for both inbound product management and outbound corporate marketing.

Prior to Desana, Andy was Vice President of Product Management at the VitalSoft Division of Lucent Technologies, where he led the product management efforts for Lucent's award-wining VitalSuite, a market-share leader. Andy came to Lucent through the acquisition of VitalSigns Software. Andy held various senior product management and marketing roles during his tenure at VitalSigns and Lucent. Andy has also held sales and marketing roles at Bay Networks and at MiLAN Technologies, which was later acquired by Digi International.

Kevin Cranman is General Counsel for Ericsson Television. (the Americas), which is part of the Ericsson Group. He handles commercial transactions regarding telecommunications and broadcasting technologies, IP development and protection, litigation and dispute management, HR issues, and whatever else darkens the door step. Previously, he served as in-house counsel and handled IP issues at Panasonic Mobile Communications, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and other technology ventures - and in a business role at BellSouth Intellectual Property.

Geoff Cruikshanks is the Executive Vice President, Legal Services, Insurance & Risk Management of Deutsche Post. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in South Wales and Selwyn College, Cambridge University, from 1974 to 1977 where he studied law. He qualified as a solicitor in 1980 after joining the London firm, Rowe & Maw in 1978.He joined DHL in 1982 as its first internal legal counsel working in London. He moved to Brussels in 1989 and was appointed General Counsel for DHL International with responsibility for legal and regulatory affairs of the group and, later, Insurance & Risk Management. After DHL was acquired by Deutsche Post in 2002/3, Geoff assumed responsibility for legal affairs for the express and logistics divisions of the group outside Germany. His responsibilities have recently been extended to legal affairs for all business units worldwide as well as Insurance & Risk Management

Tim Cummins The International Association For Contract & Commercial Management is a non-profit foundation with more than 14,000 members worldwide. In his role as CEO, Tim works with leading corporations, public and academic bodies, supporting executive awareness and understanding of the role that contracting competence increasingly play in 21st century business performance and public policy. Prior to IACCM, Tim's business career included executive roles at IBM and a period on the Chairman's staff, leading studies on the impacts of globalization and the reengineering of IBM's global contracting processes. His earlier career involved the banking, automotive and aerospace industries, initially in Corporate Finance and later in commercial and business development. He led negotiations up to $1.5bn in value and his work has taken him to over 40 countries. Tim has been extensively published by international media and he has acted in an advisory capacity to government bodies in countries that include the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Japan.

Mark Elliott is Global General Counsel for Bank of America Merrill Lynch Commodities, one of the world’s leading physical and financial trading and origination houses in Commodities, spanning power, gas, emissions, oil, coal, LNG, freight, base metals and precious metals.

Mark holds an LL.B Degree from the University of London, qualified as a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn in 1986 and then as a Solicitor in England & Wales in 1990. He has worked as a corporate, commercial, banking and trading lawyer for over 21 years, both in private practice and in-house. Previously Head of Legal and Company Secretary of the securities’ broker-dealer and investment bank, Nikko Europe Plc, in 1998 he moved to Enron Europe Limited, where he was Assistant General Counsel, primarily providing legal advice to its Continental European power and gas trading and origination teams. In December 2001, Mark moved to Entergy-Koch Trading, Ltd., to be its EMEA General Counsel. In 2004, the Entergy-Koch was acquired by Merrill Lynch to form Merrill Lynch Commodities, with Mark as its EMEA General Counsel. On 1st January 2009 Merrill Lynch Commodities became part of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Group and Mark became Global General Counsel for the Global Commodities’ business of the merged Bank of America Merrill Lynch organisation in July 2009. Merrill Lynch’s Global Commodities’ business is centred in three locations, London, Houston and Singapore and Mark leads a team of 22 lawyers in those three locations. Mark also sits on the Senior Executive Management Committee of the Commodities’ business.

Doron F. Ezickson is a partner in the London office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He is head of International for the Firm’s Energy & Commodities Advisory Practice Group. His energy and commodities practice involves a wide array of US, European and Asian regulatory and compliance issues relating to the development and operation of wholesale energy, renewable energy and emissions markets as well as related financial products. Doron also oversees commodities trading documentation negotiations across the EU and assists a variety of renewable energy companies on project deployment.

Doron has also been involved in numerous US and EU government proceedings concerning the transition to competitive energy markets, the design and operation of both physical and financial markets, market competition and manipulation issues and disputes over market structure and operations. He regularly conducts compliance training on energy regulatory issues and the FCPA and is experienced at internal investigations on issues of concern to energy marketing and trading operations.

From 1991 to 1993, Doron worked for Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld, as Deputy Chief of Staff/Chief of Operations and as Assistant Chief of Staff. His responsibilities included management of the governor’s office operations, coordination of Cabinet activities, and policy development and implementation, including energy and environmental policy. Doron is also the former executive director of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment.

Doron served as a law clerk for the DC Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. During law school, he was an articles editor for the Boston University Law Review and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. Doron has appeared for several years in Marquis Who’s Who in American Law, recognized in Chambers Europe and is AV Peer Review Rated, the highest peer review rating compiled by Martindale Hubbell. Doron is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania and is registered as a foreign attorney in London.

Marçal Justen Filho is the senior partner and founder of Justen, Pereira, Oliveira & Talamini. The firm is active in the fields of administrative law, public procurement, government contracts and regulation and has offices in São Paulo, Brasília and Curitiba.

His expert practice and numerous publications in public law have gained him international recognition as a reference lawyer in Brazil for infrastructure and public procurement. He has acted as counsel or provided expert legal opinions concerning many of the largest government and infrastructure projects in Brazil for the past 15 years. He has also acted as counsel, arbitrator and legal expert in international and domestic arbitrations concerning telecommunications, energy and regulated services.

His books include Comments on the Public Procurement Act (14th ed, 2010), Administrative Law (5th ed, 2010), Procurement Auction (5th ed, 2009), Public Service Concessions (2002) and Independent Regulatory Agencies (2001). He has published a large number of articles on a vast array of public law subjects and is co-editor of a specialized journal (RDPE). He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars and has delivered hundreds of lectures to government procurement and legal departments in Brazil.

Marçal Justen Filho was a professor in Law School for 28 years until 2006. He obtained his LLM (1984) and PhD (1985) at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (1999). He is a citizen of Brazil and Italy and is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Italian.

Dominique Golsong, Director, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Goodyear Dunlop Tires Europe BV in charge for legal affairs of Goodyear Dunlop in Europe as well as for Goodyear in Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. When the two business units merged in 2008, Golsong became Director Legal Affairs and Chief Legal Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Goodyear Dunlop, he had extensive experience with Dow Corning Corporation as Associate General Counsel Corporate, General Counsel for Dow Corning Europe, Middle East, Africa as well as Executive Board Member of Dow Corning affiliated companies in Europe. Prior to joining Dow Corning, he developed extensive legal experience in private practice in the field of corporate, M&A, financial and international commercial transactions with the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell and the Brussels law firm of Linklaters De Bandt. D. Golsong earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Columbia University in the City of New-York, has a JD degree in law from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, a Young Manager Degree from INSEAD, an Advanced Development Program Degree from the London Business School and a Facilitative Management Certificate from the University of Michigan. D. Golsong is a member of various associations including the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Michigan Bar Association, the American Corporate Counsel Association, the Belgian Institute of Company Lawyers and the French Association of Company Lawyers.

Dr. Isabel Hacker is the Chief Legal Officer Europe FBU for YUM! Restaurants International. In this role she looks primarily after the legal relationships with YUM!’s European and Russian/CIS franchisees. She is building and maintaining an extensive set of complex contractual arrangements, while at the same time managing M&A and corporate affairs of the European Head Office. In her previous role as European Legal Counsel for General Mills and member of the Haagen-Dazs Shops International (HDSI) management team, Dr. Hacker managed the organization's compliance with the difficulties of European food laws, the challenges of complex supply chain management as well as legal aspects of expansion planning for HDSI. Having previously worked at Ashurst and Freshfields in London on several large transactions prepared her for these roles at NYSE registrants with their added complexity stemming from their participation in the US capital markets. She studied law in Heidelberg, earned her doctorate in Bonn and is UK/German qualified.

Stefano Fratta is the Director for Competition and Regulatory Affairs of Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, where he manages a team of 14 lawyers and regulatory specialists.Stefano joined the Telefónica group in April 2007 as Telefónica O2 UK competition counsel and was based in Slough (London). Before moving in house, he was in private practice in Italy and Brussels, advising clients on EU competition law.Stefano was educated in Italy, France and the Netherlands and is admitted to the practice in Italy and in the UK (established EU lawyer)..At Telefónica, Stefano has worked and advised on competition matters, in particular Article 82 issues, including margin squeeze, predation, excessive prices, discounts, exclusive agreements and acquisitions under national and EU rules. Stefano also participated in several cases in front of the Competition Appeal Tribunal and National Competition Authorities as well as private antitrust damages actions in the UK and elsewhere in the EU. He is currently involved in the challenge brought by 4 UK MNOs against the EC Roaming Regulation.audiences. In 2007, Mark collected a discretionary award for excellence in Risk Management of European

Ian FitzSimons is the Group General Counsel of Pernod Ricard S.A., a worldwide leader in the spirits and wines industry. The company’s brands include Ricard, Absolut vodka, Chivas Regal, Ballantine’s, Martell, Beefeater, Malibu, Mumm, Perrier Jouet, Jacob’s Creek and Montana. Pernod Ricard was formed in 1975 through the merger of the two leading French pastis producers, Pernod and Ricard. In recent years, the group has played a major role in the consolidation of the spirits and wines sector, notably in acquiring part of the Seagram business in 2001, Allied Domecq plc in 2005 and most recently V&S Vin & Sprit AB, owners of Absolut vodka, from the Swedish state in 2008.

Prior to joining Pernod Ricard, Ian worked for Seagram and prior to that for Reckitt & Colman plc (now Reckitt Benckiser plc). He is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and, prior to moving into industry, spent four years in the London office of Baker & McKenzie where he practised as a European Competition lawyer. He studied at the College of Europe in Bruges and the College of Law in Chester.

Wolf Frenkel is the General Counsel of BearingPoint Management and Technology Consultants, an independent management and technology consultancy operated and owned by its 120+ Partners. BearingPoint has a 110 year heritage, currently employing 3,200 employees in 25 offices located throughout Europe. In this role, Wolf is responsible for providing comprehensive legal and business support to the senior management team, and manages a legal staff of ten lawyers and two paralegals.

Prior to joining BearingPoint, Wolf had a ten plus years career at Sun Microsystems, as Deputy General Counsel, for the Europe Region, and Senior Legal Director for EMEA, managing a group of more than 25 attorneys spread out over 15 countries. Before relocating to Europe in 2003, Wolf was based in the Bay Area, providing legal support to the Microelectronics and Software divisions, in technology acquisitions, inbound licensing and other intellectual property related areas.

Prior to joining Sun, Wolf held many senior legal roles across Robert Half International Inc, The PMI Group, and private practice in Montreal.

Wolf is a graduate of McGill University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, 1980 and a graduate of the University de Montreal Law Faculty, earning his LL.B. in Civil Law, 1983. Wolf was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1984 and is currently an active member of the California State Bar since 1992.

Isabelle Hautot, French, is general counsel for France Telecom-Orange group specifically in charge of group litigation and an honorary member fo the Paris Bar.

As a member of the Paris Bar from 1981 upto 2004, she was active in international affairs as counsel and arbitrator particularly in the field of international arbitration, international law, international investments, international construction and equipment contracts, insurance and banking law, first as a partner of Lafarge-Flecheux then through her own firm. She was then member of Council of the ICC Institute, Maître de Conférences at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris V University , Ecole Française des Barreaux, Bologna University.

Academic background: Institut Supérieur de Droit des Affaires/ Etudes Supérieures de Droit Privé/ Institut d’Etudes Judiciaires/ SciencesPo Economie & Finance. Languages : English and Italian.

Chris Haynes is the head of the investments and joint ventures team at British Airways and leads the company’s commercial legal team. Chris is an economics graduate from the University of Bristol and qualified as a Solicitor in England & Wales in 1995. Chris joined British Airways in 1998 and, prior to that, worked in the private equity team at Ashurst. As a lawyer and, latterly, in a dual commercial/legal role, Chris has worked on a wide range of public and private transactions in a number of jurisdictions. He currently leads the transaction team in British Airways’ ongoing merger negotiations with the Spanish flag carrier Iberia and played a similar role in the airline’s aborted merger with Qantas late in 2008.

Martin Hoskins was educated at Brunel University (London) and the State University of New York. After a brief period working for a Congressman in Washington DC, he spent three years as a British army officer, serving in Cyprus, before joining the Sun Alliance Group, and subsequently the Association of British Insurers. He joined T-Mobile in August 2000.

His professional interest in data protection issues commenced 19 years ago. He became the responsible officer for T-Mobile’s Law Enforcement Liaison Department 9 years ago. Since then, he has worked closely with UK and EU policy makers, law enforcement officials and representatives from other Communication Service Providers, exploring the measures that businesses and Governments should be taking to ensure that their citizens can continue to live in free and democratic societies.

Johan Huizing is the Director of the European legal affairs of Atmel Corporation. Atmel is a US based public company, with operating subsidiaries throughout he world, with substantial presence in Europe. Atmel produces semiconductor products, hardware and software capable of integrating dense non-volatile memory, logic, and analog functions on a single chip. Mr. Huizing is based in the South of France and joined the company in 2001. After finishing his legal studies in the Netherlands in 1983, he worked five years in a law firm admitted to the bar in Utrecht, then joined the legal department of IBM in the Netherlands. During his twelve years career within the IBM legal department he was based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Vienna (Austria), Stuttgart (Germany) and Paris (France) providing legal services regarding a wide area of legal subject matters and geographical territories. When based in Germany he was heading up the legal department of IBM Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Central Europe and Russia. In Paris he was Senior Counsel E/ME/A reporting to the E/ME/A General Counsel, working on large services and outsourcing deals and e-business matters. At all stages of his legal career Mr. Huizing was drafting and negotiating commercial contracts for the technology sector.

Mark Maurice-Jones is Chief Counsel Europe, Middle East and Africa for Kimberly-Clark where he is responsible for managing a team of legal personnel across Europe. Mark advises on a range of commercial issues including competition law, data protection and international business contracts. Having graduated from Cambridge University Mark trained and qualified at Lovell White Durrant before moving to Herbert Smith in 1996 as a competition law specialist. Mark joined Kimberly-Clark in 1999 and has been in his present position since 2007.

Han Kooy is the president of the European Company Lawyers Association (ECLA). Hestudied law at Groningen University in the Netherlands. After serving in the army as a lieutenant he joined the legal department of Shell in The Hague in 1972. Han previously worked in the legal department for Shell in the Hague and for various Shell companies in the Netherlands and abroad, including a diving company in Milan, Italy and the refinery on Curacao (Netherlands Antilles), where he was involved in Shell’s withdrawal. In the Netherlands he worked for Shell companies active in the energy business but also in metals and chemicals. Kooy is chairman of the Dutch Company Lawyers Association (NGB) and he is president of the European Company Lawyers Association ( ECLA).

With over 10 years’ recruitment experience, Colin Loth has worked with Badenoch & Clark since 1999 and has recruited senior counsel and general counsel into industry as well as senior associates and partners into city law firms. As manager of three permanent legal teams and one temporary legal in-house team, he has gained significant people-management experience. Backed up by market leading research, Colin is exceptionally well placed to deliver expertise on attraction, retention and talent management issues. He is regularly quoted as an industry expert in both national and trade press with published articles in The Lawyer, Legal Week and City AM, amongst others.

Gabriel McGann is Senior International Competition Counsel of The Coca-Cola Company and advises on a wide variety of competition law matters involving mergers and acquisitions, distribution and compliance issues in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is Co-Chair of the AmCham EU Competition Policy Committee and Vice Chair of the European Brands Association’s Competition and Legal Affairs Committee.

Prior to his current position he served as The Coca-Cola Company’s European Marketing and Competition Counsel and Counsel for the Company’s global manufacturing operations.

Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, he served as a legal advisor with Aer Lingus, and practiced as a barrister in Dublin.

He has a LL.M degree from Yale Law School and obtained his primary law degree at Trinity College, Dublin.

Eddie McLaughlin is MD & Head of Strategic Risk EMEA for Marsh driving growth in strategic risk consulting offerings across EMEA. In addition, he is the Global Practice Leader of Modeling Analysis and Design and leads the ‘senior business development’ resource in Risk Consulting.

Eddie started his full-time career as a consultant in risk management working for a pre-eminent firm of Management Consultants where he gained his professional qualifications and memberships - the Institute of Actuaries, Institute of Risk Management and Chartered Insurance Institute. He also holds both a BA and an MA degree.

He is the holder of two corporately sponsored professional awards in the field of risk management –Risk Analysis and Risk Financing.

He specialises in the creation of client specific actuarial, financial and risk decision making models and computer based simulations. He has extensive financial modelling, risk management and financial engineering solutions (ART) experience. He is a ‘certified loss reserve’ specialist for two Bermuda based companies (requiring domicile authorisation) and is a Spanish speaker

Vince Neicho is a Litigation Support Specialist at Allen & Overy and is a recognised expert in the field of e-disclosure and document management. He has over 34 years of experience at Allen & Overy and is responsible for document management across the litigation department.

He also manages the department’s paralegals and is an Administrator of the firm’s Litigation Support system, Ringtail Caseroom. On a global basis, he is actively involved in advising clients on disclosure obligations, preservation, retrieval and organisation of their documents and data to facilitate reviews for disclosure and investigatory purposes. He also has vast experience on the execution of Search and Seize Orders. Vince is a founder member of LiST (Litigation Support Technology) Group and has a particular interest in the development of e-disclosure and the use of electronic documents and the consequent challenges posed to the litigator, both in England and Wales and globally.

Vince is recognised in the market and he is actively involved in shaping the future law on e-disclosure. By way of example, he is a member, by invitation, of the Working Group assembled by Senior Master and Queen’s Remembrancer, Master Whitaker, charged with drafting an e-Disclosure Questionnaire to form part of the disclosure process and also to re-draft the Practice Direction governing the e-disclosure process. In addition, Vince's paragraph on e-disclosure has been included as a quote in the Preliminary Report of Lord Justice Jackson's Review on Costs. He has also recently addressed judges at one of their conferences on the practicalities of e-disclosure and is a regular speaker on the subject, addressing audiences in London, Brussels, New York and Hong Kong.

Kevin Perry, an EAPD Partner and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Commercial Litigation Group, has a broad range of experience including contentious banking issues, asset tracing, general contract (often with a heavy technical element), construction and civil engineering disputes. He has considerable experience in multi-jurisdictional litigation and international arbitration, with particular interest in the risk management issues facing corporate clients in relation to how disputes are handled internally. Kevin has achieved widespread recognition for his practice in some of the world's leading independent legal directories, and is recognized in the Legal Media Group Guides to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers publication and is also listed as a leader in the field of Commercial Litigation by the established legal directory UK Legal Experts 2009. He recently acted for the only successful defendant in the multi-million pound litigation arising out of the Buncefield oil terminal explosion and is currently heavily involved in the fall out from the much publicised termination of a long term supply agreement at Corus' steelmaking plant in Teeside. He is also a regular speaker at events aimed at the in-house legal community.