LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |
London | Dublin | Paris | Dubai | Boston | New York | San Francisco
Cataling Consulting
announced as our Silver Sponsor
for our
INAUGURAL GENERAL COUNSEL SUMMIT
celebrating our
5th BIRTHDAY
Good afternoon,
I am delighted to announce that Catalina Consulting will be one of our Silver sponsors for our Inaugural General Counsel Summit.
Karena Vaughan | Catalina Consulting
Our thanks to Karena Vaughan, the Founder and Managing Director of Catalina Consulting. She is a leading authority on foreign direct investment with a proven track record in helping companies to make smart location decisions and in helping regions to secure high-value investment.
Karena’s expertise and experience are drawn from a highly successful career in international business and economic development. As Director Europe & Russia with Invest Northern Ireland, Karena worked with Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Barclays, Everything Everywhere and Convergys as well as expanding, middle market companies including Augentius Fund Services, Heritage Fund Services and Fintru, on location strategy. Karena additionally led sales teams to secure investment for Northern Ireland from Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith Freehills, Axiom Law, MITIE, Alexander Mann and Eishtec.
From a global supply chain perspective, Karena devised and instigated programmes of engagement with Airbus and Boeing for SMEs in the engineering industry. Karena played a key role in the transition of Northern Ireland from a region of relatively low-value investment to one of the leading UK investment locations.
As General Manager and Sales Director with boutique learning and development company Edge, Karena led the development and delivery of multi-location sales and leadership training programs for Caterpillar, Thomson Reuters, HP and Coca-Cola. She was also responsible for training more than 400 export sales managers for companies including Terex and Ryobi in the US, Europe and APAC.
She received her MBA from Ulster University and her MA and B.Ed. Hons from Queens University Belfast. Fluent in French, she is a Prince II practitioner and has completed the Building Business in Emerging Markets programme at Harvard Business School.
Event Details
LONDON
Wednesday 2 November 2016 | 2.00 PM to 6.30 PM
Venue: The stunning offices of Keltie LLP | No. 1 London Bridge
Admission: FREE of charge for UK based Lawyers
RSVP: colin@lawyersbdc.com
General Counsel | Fab Guest Speakers
To celebrate the LBDC’s | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |
5th BIRTHDAY
we are organizing a very special and unique event – our inaugural General Counsel Summit in London.
We will be joined by some of the most influential GC’s in the UK and the US (Matt Fawcett). Our GC guest speakers have very kindly agreed to give us “TED” style Talks for 20 minutes about their career journeys. It promises to be a fun and inspirational afternoon. This will be an intimate and invite-only event. Please drop me a line if you would be interested in being added to our guest list.
I look forward to hearing from you.
-Colin
E: colin@lawyersbdc.com
OUR GUEST SPEAKERS
Funke Abimbola
General Counsel & Company Secretary of Roche UK
Matthew Fawcett
Executive Vice President & General Counsel of NetApp Inc (Fortune 500 Co).
Tim Grayson
Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
Mark Horncastle
GE Capital Real Estate
Robert Ivens
General Counsel (retired end August 2016) of Marks and Spencer plc
Pavel Klimov
General Counsel EMEA at Unisys
Andrew Magowan
General Counsel & Company Secretary of ASOS plc
Catie Sherat
Associate General Counsel at Pearson Plc
Edward Smith
General Counsel at O2 (a Telefonica company)
Richard Tapp
General Counsel & Company Secretary of Carillion plc
Christian Waida
General Counsel of Open Text
RSVP
This will be a small intimate invite-only event.
If you would like to receive an invitation to join us, please drop me a line.
It will be FREE to attend if you are a UK based lawyer. If you are an over-seas lawyer and would like to join us, please drop me a line and I can provide you with the registration details.
I look forward to hearing from you.
–Colin
Email: colin@lawyersbdc.com
LBDC | Lawyers’ Business Development Club |
London │Paris | Dublin | New York | Boston | San Francisco | Dubai
50 Guest Speaker Talks | Est’d London 2011
Previous Guest Speakers include:
The Chairman of Goldman Sachs International | The Deputy Worldwide Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi | The CEO of Facebook (Ireland) | The CEO of PayPal (MENA) | The CEO of Hogan Lovells | The CEO of O2 / Telefonica |
Official Partner in London – Keltie LLP | Official Partner in Dublin – Boston College’s Global Leadership Institute
Est’d London 2011
The Lawyers’ Business Development CLUB 