Alex is an experienced commercial lawyer and a legal innovator, with over 25 years in the legal profession. She started her career as a corporate & commercial law knowledge manager in a City law firm. She then joined Sweet & Maxwell, a leading legal publisher and part of Thomson Reuters, where she developed and edited books and journals for the legal profession.

Natalie Salunke is a member of The O Shaped Lawyer steering board and has been managing legal teams in-house for over 12 years. Currently working as a “fractional GC”, she has experience of running the legal function for a number of diverse organisations including Zilch, a leading consumer finance provider; RVU, owner of the well-known price comparison brands Uswitch and Confused.com; Fleetcor, a US-listed global provider of specialised payment products; the US’s largest car rental company, Enterprise Rent-A-Car; for US-listed cloud software provider, NetSuite (now part of Oracle); and was Group Head of Legal and Company Secretary of Venda, a UK-based eCommerce SaaS provider. In these roles she has been responsible for all company legal matters including adopting an advisory role in relation to the group’s shareholders, board of directors and executive management. Natalie became Head of Legal at Venda at the age of 27. Before then, she worked in Travelex’s legal team based in London, having trained at international city law firm, Taylor Wessing.