KONEXO MALAYSIA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Head of Product, Tech Innovation & Transformation
- Head of Product, Technology Innovation & Transformation
Babar is the Head of Product, Tech Innovation & Transformation at Konexo. He is responsible for technology management and driving innovation to support the strategic growth ambitions of the business; across the functions and practice areas. He has expertise across software, product development, technology strategy and innovation, across both the legal and financial services sectors in large global organisations. He also frequently participates in industry events related to the evolving legal technology landscape and emerging trends in the market.
Job Titles:
- Head of Legal Projects
- Head of Regulatory Response
Brett is the Head of Regulatory Response for Konexo and his immediate focus over the coming 12 months will be the Libor Transition.
Brett specialises in decomposing difficult remediation concerns in the legal space and designing appropriate managed service structures to best suit our clients. Outside of service design, Brett is an experienced management consultant, with practice areas in Financial Services regulatory response, particularly the three lines of defense and control frameworks/operating models.
Carmen is Head of Konexo in the United States and Senior Counsel of Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP. She is responsible for the development and delivery of Konexo's strategy and services in the US and works closely with her colleagues around the world on Konexo's global offerings.
Prior to leading Konexo US, Carmen was Counsel in Eversheds Sutherland's Securities Enforcement and Litigation practices and has significant experience managing large, multi-disciplinary, cross-border investigations and representing financial services clients in investigations, regulatory, and enforcement matters involving US regulators. In addition to her legal background, Carmen has extensive business management experience, having spent considerable time on employment and labor issues, sales and marketing, finance, and general management in the hospitality industry.
David is a partner in Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP and Head of Operations in Konexo.
He was previously Head of Banking at Eversheds where he had a broad practice acting for lenders and borrowers in relation to a wide range of banking and capital markets transactions. He is also the firm's client partner for several clients of the firm. He has operated across many sectors but has particular knowledge of the Financial Institutions sector. Through his client relationships and finance transactional work, as well as senior line management roles within Eversheds Sutherland and Konexo, he brings extensive experience of legal team strategy and implementation with a focus specifically on resourcing needs and new legal service operating models.
Job Titles:
- Regulatory Director, Financial Services Regulatory Compliance
David is Regulatory Director in the Financial Services Advisory team.
He has over 20 years industry experience and specialises in Conduct of Business, and ensures that the firms advice, products, and services provided to their customers are appropriate and compliant. He is a qualified Pension transfer specialist and has extensive experience focusing on the suitability of Defined Benefit (DB) Transfer advice and has successfully delivered a large DB s.166 remediation project, resulting in £100m in client redress. He was responsible for complete end-to-end design and delivery; including suitability and redress frameworks. David is presently delivering a DB pension transfer review in response to FCA supervisory work.
Job Titles:
- Head of Client Development
David is a partner of Eversheds Sutherland and Head of Client Development at Konexo.
He is responsible for Konexo's client strategy and works alongside the Head of Konexo, the Head of Operations and the Head of Konexo US on the development and delivery of the global strategy. Konexo provides a broad portfolio of managed services, interim resource solutions and consultancy services to in house legal, compliance, HR and corporate secretarial functions. Konexo deploys the latest intelligent analytics, automation technology and innovative operational processes to offer unparalleled flexible access to the right blend of skills and experience. David's practice is in financial services regulation and consulting. He has delivered a wide range of legal and consulting projects and managed service solutions for global organizations. David was formerly Deputy Group General Counsel at Nationwide Building Society.
Job Titles:
- HR Consulting Manager
- Manager in the HR Consulting Team at Konexo UK
Debi is a Manager in the HR Consulting team at Konexo UK. She works with our clients, HR consultants and lawyers managing and co-ordinating the delivery of strategic and operational HR consulting activities.
Debi has more than 25 years of professional HR experience and works with our HR consultants and employment team to deliver excellence for our clients. Konexo's HR consulting offers a broad portfolio of services including strategic transformation change, employee relations, mediation, coaching, training and short-term interim support providing highly experienced, impartial HR consultants to our clients when they need them most.
Francesca Turquet joined in April 2022 to support the growth of our in-house legal management consultancy practice as well as other areas of the business, including interim resourcing and remediation services.
Gemma is Legal Director and the senior legal adviser in the Konexo Real Estate team with more than 25 years residential property experience.
Gemma specialises in residential property matters including equity release, second charges, portfolio sales and acquisitions, remortgaging, sales and purchases and solar lease of airspace. Gemma's role includes responsibility for risk, supervision, quality, and legal training within the department.
Graham is a partner of Eversheds Sutherland and Head of Konexo. He is responsible for the development and delivery of Konexo's global strategy alongside the Head of Operations, the Head of Client Development and Head of Konexo US.
Previously, he managed Eversheds Sutherland's Volume Legal Services Centre of Excellence for more than six years, leading 455 people across six offices. With a legal background in litigation, Graham has a wealth of experience, notably advising clients within the Finance Services sector. Graham launched ES / Consulting in 2011 and oversaw its rebranding to Konexo in 2019. He has delivered consulting projects and managed service solutions globally for some of the world's biggest companies.
Job Titles:
- Head of Financial Services
Ian is Head of Financial Services at Konexo. His practice deals with the operational delivery of regulatory compliance projects from small niche-focused technical reviews to large-scale retail remediation programs across a variety of conduct risk sectors.
Job Titles:
- Head of Legal Resourcing - UK
- Head of Legal Resourcing at Konexo UK
James is Head of Legal Resourcing at Konexo UK. He works with clients across all sectors to deliver legal strategy and resource solutions and has extensive leadership experience, delivering projects in business strategy, financial and management controls, information technology, operations and resourcing solutions to world leading brands across the UK, EMEA and APAC regions.
He joined Eversheds Sutherland in 2011, bringing ten years' experience in project and program management in both government and private sector areas. This included leading a consultancy working with governments in Europe, China, Russia and in the Middle East region, as well as with UK government. James gained an MBA Distinction from the University of Bath, and is PRINCE2 Practitioner qualified.
Janet is the Operations Director within the Konexo Real Estate team which provides volume conveyancing and project expertise, working with many of the UK's major Financial Institutions.
Janet has fifteen years' experience working in this area including responsibility for managing the remortgaging, equity release, second charge, solar leases and central legal teams. She also has extensive expertise in setting up, implementing and managing volume conveyancing processes, both on and offshore. A key part of Janet's role is providing support to the business in managing high-volume projects, having a proven capability in identifying, developing and implementing innovative and cost effective solutions on legal projects and outsourcing operations. Prior to joining Konexo, Janet completed an honours degree in Business Studies, before working several years in the Financial Services market and Utilities arena, where she was responsible for new business teams, corporate client relationships and credit control.
Job Titles:
- Head
- Head of Konexo, Asia
Joan is the Head of Konexo in Asia. She is responsible for the development and delivery of Konexo's strategy and services in the region.
Joan is focused on the expansion and delivery of legal resourcing, managed services, legal operations and digital transformation services, across Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. She helps in-house legal teams meet their challenges with innovative solutions to reach their strategic goals.
Job Titles:
- Head of the Branding Group - Konexo UK
Kate leads the Branding Group at Konexo UK. She is a dual qualified solicitor and trade mark attorney and has over 23 years' experience working in the IP field. Kate's background as an IP solicitor complements her trade mark practice such that she provides advice to clients throughout all stages of a brand's life-cycle.
Kate advises a large number of household names and is responsible for the management of clients' global trade mark portfolios. She regularly advises in relation to trade mark selection, international trade mark and design clearance programmes, filing strategies and the prosecution of trade mark and design applications around the world. With her substantial IP experience, she also provides a broad understanding of branding issues and advises on strategic issues regarding brand protection and brand enforcement. Kate has also built up a substantial reputation for dealing with online brand enforcement issues and regularly advise clients in connection with domain name registration and recovery strategies. Kate is ranked in the World Trademark Lawyers Review and is a member of the International Trade Mark Association.
Job Titles:
- Head of Legal
- Head of Legal Resourcing - Konexo US
- Head of Legal Resourcing US
Lisa is Head of Legal Resourcing US. She is responsible for overseeing the recruiting of all contract attorneys and paralegals supporting client projects and secondments for Konexo US and works closely with Carmen Brun, Head of Konexo US, and Carol Rodriguez, Head of Legal Services- Konexo US. Lisa has more than 19 years of experience in the legal industry. She worked as a senior managing and staffing consultant overseeing a variety of recruiting and staffing projects as well as worked in the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, through USIS/LABAT, as a project manager supervising on-site teams of professionals providing litigation support services for criminal antitrust matters resulting from joint agency investigations. Early on in her career, Lisa worked as a litigation attorney for a law firm and later as a contract attorney for several law firms, on a range of matters, including products liability and securities fraud.
Richard is Head of Interim Legal Resourcing at Konexo, overseeing the teams across the UK and Asia.
He works with clients across all sectors ensuring they get the best talent in the market to assist on projects, spikes in demand or covering absences. Prior to his current role, Richard worked on technical projects such as legal analytics and contract management and was previously Head of IT Application Development and Support for Eversheds Sutherland. He has spoken at legal IT events across Europe and the USA, with a focus on workflow improvement and resource management.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director - Financial Services
- Managing Director in the Financial Services Team at Konexo UK
Simon is a Managing Director in the Financial Services team at Konexo UK. Over the past 27 years he has advised financial services firms on regulatory matters, specializing in culture, governance, systems and controls and conduct areas.
He has significant experience of assisting firms with compliance and regulatory projects such as the Senior Managers and Certification regime, Skilled Person, past business and remediation reviews. He is also experienced in providing pragmatic training on regulatory matters to boards and senior management. Simon is on the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority's Skilled Person Panel for governance and has been an expert adviser to the FCA in relation to governance and conduct enforcement matters. Simon and the rest of the team partner with our legal teams to deliver robust, practical and achievable solutions.