Chief commercial officer, Irwin Mitchell Chief commercial officer Victoria sits on the board at Irwin Mitchell and is responsible for the planning and execution of growth plans for the group: setting the strategy on organic growth, M&A and strategic lateral hires. She has helped to build and support the firm’s sector strategy and client relationship management programme which ensures strong engagement with the firm’s clients.

General counsel and secretary, PROS Holdings General counsel and chief compliance officer Damian Olthoff joined PROS in 2011. He also serves the company as its secretary and is responsible for all legal operations. Olthoff brings to PROS experience in governance, corporate development, finance and commercial transactions.  Prior to joining PROS, he served for six years as general counsel for Animal Health International, a publicly traded pharmaceutical distributor. With Animal Health, Olthoff led the company’s foreign and domestic legal affairs, including complex commercial transactions, the company’s 2007 initial public offering, numerous acquisitions and litigation management.

Director of legal and company secretary,  UCL Business Lawson Crawford is director of legal and company secretary at UCL Business. UCLB commercialises the research emanating from University College London by way of licensing it, creating and supporting spinout companies and establishing investment funds. All of this with a view to the ideas, research and innovation of UCL’s academics being of benefit to the wider world. His role spans the bio-pharm and physical sciences, the arts and humanities and managing the patents and wider IP portfolio. Among his interests, Lawson is a trustee of Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Head of policy, Lime Ashley N. Scott is an experienced regulatory, legislative and public policy senior leader and professional, and who has built her career on leveraging new technologies to advance the public interest. She currently serves as Lime’s senior director of strategy and policy development for global business and oversees the company’s global policy messaging, development of its advocacy platform, and regulatory strategy. She has been responsible for creating and crafting micromobility regulations and operations in over 150 jurisdictions across the world. She has spoken across the country on emerging issues in micromobiltiy transportation and transportation equity. She is a former City Attorney for the City of Atlanta, campaign operative, and litigation attorney.  Her background includes developing regulatory frameworks for various sharing economy technologies such as short-term rentals and rideshare. She has served as the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Sharing Economy Committee.  Ashley holds a law degree from Emory University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida.

Partner, intellectual property and media, Irwin Mitchell Georgie is an IP lawyer, focussing on international brand protection and enforcement.  She helps businesses and individuals to protect their brands and reputations and to assess and respond to the myriad of risk issues that can impact their reputations.

General counsel and compliance officer, UK & Ireland, Nestlé Mark Maurice-Jones leads a team of 15 staff dedicated to shaping the agenda of Nestlé UK & Ireland through proactive business partnerships and driving a culture of integrity. He is a member of Nestlé’s UK  Force for Good Committee. Before Nestlé Mark worked for 15 years with Kimberly-Clark in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.  Mark started his legal career as a competition lawyer with international law firms in London and Brussels.