Bjarne Tellmann: Keynote Speaker in New York

LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |

London │ Dublin │ Dubai │ Boston │ New York

LBDC: 41st Keynote Speaker Event

with

Bjarne P. Tellmann

Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pearson PLC

We are delighted and honored to announce that Bjarne P. Tellmann (Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pearson Plc) will be our keynote speaker at the LBDC |Lawyers’ Business Development Club | in New York.

Bjarne Tellmann will give us a Talk entitled: “Leading Legal Teams In an Age of Innovation and Disruption.”

When:	Tuesday, 27 October 2015
	Pre-event networking: 6.00 PM – 6.30 PM. Bjarne P. Tellmann (Senior VP & GC of Pearson, Plc) Talk will commence at 6.30 PM. Post-event networking: 7.30 PM to 8.30 PM

Where:	Manhattan, New York City (venue tbc)
Cost:	Free

RSVP:	colin@lawyersbdc.com

Bjarne P. Tellmann

Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pearson PLC

Bjarne P. Tellmann is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pearson PLC, the world’s leading education publishing business. A FTSE 40 company, Pearson is active in over 80 countries with interests that include The Financial Times and Penguin Random House. At Pearson, Mr. Tellmann leads a global legal team of more than 200 people across five continents. He previously served in various capacities at The Coca-Cola Company, including as Associate General Counsel, General Counsel Asia-Pacific and General Counsel Japan. Prior to that, he was Deputy General Counsel of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, S.A., one of the world’s largest independent Coke bottling groups, with 550 million consumers in 28 countries spanning Russia, Eurasia, Europe and Africa. Mr. Tellmann has also held legal positions at Kimberly-Clark and at the law firms of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and White & Case LLP in various locations in Europe and the United States. The Lawyer magazine recently named Mr. Tellmann as one of its “Hot 100” lawyers for 2015 and the Pearson legal team have been shortlisted for the Lawyer Awards “2015 Technology Media Telecommunications Law Firm of the Year” (to be decided at the awards ceremony in London on June 23, 2015).

Originally from Oslo, Norway, Mr. Tellmann is a member of the New York and Georgia Bars and is a qualified Solicitor in England and Wales. He holds a Juris Doctor with Honors from The University of Chicago, a M.Sc. (Econ.) from The London School of Economics and a PG Dip. (with Merit) in European Competition Law from King’s College, University of London. He received his B.A., Summa cum Laude from Boston University.