Asia Legal Inno’ Tech Forum – Singapore

Corrine Tan

Head of Legal, Southeast Asia, Google Asia Pacific

Based in Singapore, her team and her support Google’s offices in Southeast Asia, focuing on advising on legal issues and seeking to influence the regulatory framework to promote an open and vibrant Internet. Prior to joining Google, Corrine spent time at Globalfoundries, Nokia, Baker & McKenzie and Allen & Gledhill in Singapore.

Gladys Chun

General Counsel - Lazada Group

Gladys leads the Legal and Compliance department for Lazada Group and across all countries where Lazada has a local presence including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Russia. She supports the management by providing strategic guidance in commercial strategies and risk management across various business units including Lazada (B2C platform) and LEX (logistics business). Gladys started her career in corporate/commercial and tax practice before moving in-house into retail, franchising and now, technology.

Kirsty Dougan

Head of Asia, Axiom

Kirsty Dougan is the Managing Director of Asia for Axiom. Kirsty has spear-headed the growth of the regional business in Asia, leading client development covering major F50 companies along with mid-sized financial, pharmaceutical, FMCG, and tech-companies. Kirsty was previously a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and was Regional Counsel with Diageo based in Shanghai.

Alex Smith

Innovation Manager - Reed Smith

Reed Smith’s first Innovation Manager leading the Innovation Hub programme, Alex heads up a physical and virtual programme of client-centric ideas-generation and rethinking of legal service design. Alex has two decades of experience interacting with lawyers in law firms and in-house teams to design new products and technologies, primarily as Innovation & New Product Lead at LexisNexis.

Gino Bello

Senior Director - FTI Consulting

Gino leads the Technology segment in Singapore. A computer forensic expert and certified computer examiner, Gino specialises in forensic collection, analysis and expert reporting of digital evidence. Over fourteen years, Gino has led matters including large-scale, cross-border disputes, investigations, arbitrations, and eDiscovery engagements and assists in Cyber risk and incident response.

Michael Lew

Founder, LegalComet

Michael is currently the Founder & CEO of LegalComet and the immediate Past President of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (Singapore Chapter). An avid legal technologist with over 17 years of consulting experiences in technology risk management, E-Discovery, digital forensics and recent years, cybersecurity. He graduated from the LSE with Masters in Information Systems. He started his career with at Lincoln’s Inn, Rajah & Tann and was previously a Director at Deloitte and has led their Southeast Asia Forensic Discovery team.

Paul Neo

COO and CFO at the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL)

Paul oversees organisational capacity building at SAL and also the Executive Director of SAL Ventures – SAL’s subsidiary with initiatives like the Future Law Innovation Programme (FLIP). Paul served as CEO of Next U, and management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Paul began his career as a defence engineer in the Singapore Armed Forces after graduating from MIT with a Master of Engineering and was awarded the MIT Graduate Fellowship Award. He also has a Master of Engineering in Sensors and Smart Structures Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and a Master of Science in Material Science and Engineering from the National University of Singapore. Paul is also an accredited mediator at the Singapore Mediation Centre and the Singapore International Mediation Institute.

Patrick Dransfield

Co-Director of In-House Community

Patrick has over 22 years of experience working in the legal industry: firstly as a Publisher and later Asia Managing Director of Euromoney Institutional Investor, and then as Marketing and Business Development Director for Asia for Shearman & Sterling and White & Case respectively. After spending 6 months advising a start-up on-line language learning site for children (Study-cat), Patrick joined InHouse Community as Publishing Director and Co-Director of the In-House Community™ in 2008 and continues in those roles. His publishing career began with Haymarket Publishing in 1987.

Patrick is a graduate of Leeds University and also holds a Master’s Degree in Far East Area Studies from the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS).

Peter Connor

Founder & CEO, AlternativelyLegal

Based in Sydney, Peter Connor has worked as private practice lawyer, GC and and in a VP business role in Hong Kong, Switzerland, England and Silicon Valley, US, gaining experience on all sides of the legal industry. Peter formed AlternativelyLegal to help in-house legal and compliance professionals throughout the world innovate, change and add value. He does this globally through his Everything But The Law™ training and consulting services and Change4Legal™ workshops for lawyers and his Trouble Traps® compliance videos and Alternative Compliance Solutions for corporate employees.

Rahul Prakash

Publisher, In-House Community & Asian-mena Counsel

Rahul Prakash is publisher of Asian-mena Counsel (magazine for the in-house community) and www.inhousecommunity.com. He also assists in the business development of In-House Community events across Asia, Middle-East and Africa. Over the past 5 years , Rahul has worked with numerous legal services providers, helping them showcase their expertise to in-house counsel. He’s a business graduate from Delhi University and holds a Diploma in IT/Computer Application, as well as a certificate in Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics.