Mitch Kowalski, Mitch Kowalski is a globally-recognized thought leader on the changing legal services ecosystem and the author of two critically acclaimed books in this area. Mitch was admitted in 1991 and spent 10 years as an Associate and Partner at Baker & McKenzie (Toronto) and five years of inhouse experience at Aoyuan International (Canada), City of Toronto and at Toronto Community Housing Corporation.

Nick Seddon, Director, Seddon and Co and former Asia Managing Partner, Eversheds Sutherland and DLA Piper. Nick is an investor, lawyer, and advisor with high level management experience.

Fengwen  has an extensive in-house legal experience with 25 years  at top Fortune 500 US and EU companies, as regional General Counsel for APAC at Ingersoll Rand and American Standard, lead counsel for  Honeywell/AlliedSignal, and Senior VP and General Counsel for ABB Asia, Middle East  and Africa. She led and executed hundreds of projects including M&As, FDIs, company restructurings, corporate governance, real estate and constructions. Fengwen has also worked in private practice at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher practicing in cross border investments in China, M&A in Asia, and IPO in the United States. Currently, she serves as Senior VP and Senior expert at docQbot, helping companies to design and implement legal-tech solutions utilizing docQbot’s cutting edge tools, and transactions involving anti-monopoly, anti-unfair competition and e-commerce related laws and regulations. In addition, drawing on her extensive experience heading up major M&A, spin-off and demerger deals and full spectrum of commercial transactions and internal advisory matters, Fengwen provides direct hands-on leadership for  key elements  for docQbot’s content development initiatives, and also participates in webinars on the  PRC  Foreign Investment Law and Company Law in collaboration  with the In-House Counsel Community and IACCM.

Jessica Barlett (judge for Visionary Client Services Awards): Director of Financial Crime Legal – APAC at Barclays. Jessica advises compliance and legal teams, business lines and senior management across the APAC region on financial crime issues including economic sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering, fraud, and anti-corruption. Before joining Barclays in 2018, Jessica was an associate with Shearman & Sterling LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.  Jessica holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois, Master of Arts in Philosophy from Brandeis University, and two Bachelors of Arts degrees in Art History and Political Science from Southern Methodist University.   

Carina Wessels (judge for Visionary Client Services Awards): Executive: Governance, Legal & Compliance at Alexander Forbes and Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Carina is known for her commercial mindedness, practical legal application, continuous improvement focus, desire to make a difference and add value in all spheres of her professional and personal life and above all, absolute passion and drive to always exceed expectations. She holds an LLB and two LLM degrees: Labour Law and Extractive Industry Law in Africa (cum laude), Certificate in Advanced Labour Law (cum laude) and a PMD (cum laude). An admitted advocate of the High Court of South Africa, fellow and past president of the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa, as well as past president of the Corporate Secretaries International Association. 

Clinton Swan (judge for Visionary Client Services Awards) – Consultant, Regulaition / Co-founder, Codelex Legaltech / Member, AIFC Legaltech Advisory Council. Named as one of ’30 people to watch in the business of law in 2021′, and with 20 years across legal, tech and info-services – including over a decade on regional management teams of an international law firm, Clinton brings a range of experience to the judging panel across business models, maturity and markets.

Yosr Hamza (judge for Visionary Client Services Awards) – Director, Legal Affairs, Middle East, Gartner. Yosr has more than a decade of legal experience. She is well respected amongst her peers and professional community. During her career, she held various positions allowing her to gain significant experience in executive negotiations, legal risk management, corporate governance and compliance, crisis management and acting as a trusted business advisor to the C-Suite and top management. She moved in-house and played a key part in establishing and managing the legal, data protection, ethical, compliance & ombuds team supporting the Middle East region in Gartner.