General Manager & Managing Consultant EMEA

Danh is an experienced senior corporate and commercial lawyer with over 20 years of global commercial practice experience across banking/financial services/payments and IT/technology sectors. He has worked in global listed companies and in private practice on a wide range of matters including general corporate and commercial, financial services regulatory, AML/CTF, remittances and payments, business advisory and strategic risk and compliance. He also has extensive general management, leadership and business development experience.

Danh is also experienced in leading large transformation initiatives, using Lean Management principles, tools and practices to drive organisational, operational and cultural change, including Legal Process Management.

Past work: The Western Union Company, Westpac Banking Corporation, Lexmark International, Baker & McKenzie, Australian Broadcasting Authority, Blake Dawson Waldron

Education: LLB (Honours), BA (Mass Communications), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Head of Customer Solutions SEA

Estefania is a business development and marketing specialist with an international background in talent acquisition for in-house legal teams in Hong Kong and Singapore. Her experience has focused on growing and developing relationships with both customers and lawyers across a range of industries and sectors including with MNCs, financial institutions, SMEs and startups.

Past work: Robert Walters, British American Tobacco

Languages: Spanish

Education: BBA in Marketing, Universidad José Antonio Páez, Venezuela

Senior Legal Consultant SEA

Outside of KorumLegal, Gillian is very active in philanthropic work (giving back to community and society, and education for children) and loves golf, walking and reading.

Past work: BioQuest Advisory, Intelllex, Watson Farley & Williams, Spa Esprit Group, David Chong & Co, Coopers & Lybrand, Ramdas & Wong

Education: 

- MBA, Cass Business School, United Kingdom
- Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis, National University of Singapore - Institute of Systems Science, Singapore
- LL.B, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Customer Solutions Manager APAC

Matt has spent his career to date working within the legal space. Initially, London based, working for a specialist boutique recruitment firm as Head of Legal, before relocating to Hong Kong in order to set up the firm’s first Asia office and further establish their presence in the APAC region. Now, as part of our HQ function, Matt utilises his extensive EMEA and APAC legal market knowledge to help build the KorumLegal brand, strengthen our existing customer and consultant relationships and promote KorumLegal’s capabilities to the market.

Past work: WSR Recruitment

Education: BSc (Geography), Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

General Manager & Managing Consultant SEA

Rob is an English qualified senior corporate and commercial lawyer with extensive experience across European and SE Asian markets.

He joined KorumLegal in May 2019 having previously worked as a corporate lawyer in the London team of Squire Patton Boggs before moving to Singapore in 2016 to help develop their mainstream corporate and commercial practice for the Asia-Pacific region, principally supporting global corporate clients with M&A, investments, joint ventures and other business expansion strategies there.

Rob’s experience includes client secondments and he has worked closely with public and private corporates, family offices, entrepreneurs and investment funds with exposure to a wide variety of industries and sectors, in particular financial services, technology and consumer goods & services.

Past work: Squire Patton Boggs

Education: LLB (Hons), University of Bristol, UK and University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Senior Legal Consultant EMEA 

Rolf is a Dutch qualified senior commercial lawyer with experience across European and Asian markets.

Before joining KorumLegal in February 2019, Rolf worked in private practice in Amsterdam and Hong Kong for clients operating in Europe and Asia on various matters including commercial, corporate and financial services.

With KorumLegal, Rolf has worked for a variety of companies (from start to scale-up, from private to listed) with a particular interest in FinTech and payments. He has assisted clients with legal project management for regional or strategic projects, both in-house and virtual, including regulatory compliance and risk management projects.

Past work: Loyens & Loeff

Education: LL.M, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

Finance and Operations Manager

Rutvi is a finance specialist, with over 8 years experience in India and Hong Kong.  She joined the KorumLegal team, after working with several MNCs and SMEs, where she decided that the legal scale-up space was where she wanted to be.  Rutvi brings a depth of knowledge to her role at KorumLegal, having completed her MBA specialising in Finance and Project Management in 2011.  Apart from work, she likes travelling and she recently took up baking - the KorumLegal team is looking forward to the results!

Education:

- MBA (Finance & Project Management),  Charusat University, India
- Executive Company Secretary, ICSI, India

Customer Solutions Manager EMEA

Sarah is an accomplished sales and marketing professional with almost 10 years experience in legal services business development and recruitment. She started her career in London but has also worked in Asia for 4 years.  She ventured into the 'NewLaw' space in 2016 and brings with her an international skill set of developing relationships at the highest level.

Past work: Navistar Legal, Sheffield Haworth, Commodity Search Partners, Michael Page.

Education: MA (Politics) University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Growth Marketing Analyst

Satinder is a law graduate and joins KorumLegal as a marketing executive.  She is excited to explore non-traditional legal opportunities and innovation in the legal space.  She has a keen interest in NewLaw and LegalTech and how it is changing the legal industry.  She is excited to return to Hong Kong to join the team…and to improve her Cantonese.

Languages: Punjabi and Hindi 

Education: LLB (Hons), Coventry University, United Kingdom

Head of Legal & Managing Consultant

Tessa is a senior lawyer with over 14 years of experience advising on corporate, commercial and compliance/regulatory legal matters. Tessa has a pro-active, solutions-driven approach to her work - the ability to achieve key commercial objectives whilst effectively identifying and managing legal risk.

Past work: GM Financial, DLA Piper, MinterEllison

Education: LLB/BA, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

CEO & Founder

Titus is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in private practice and as a general counsel across Europe and Asia-Pacific. He has worked in NZX, FTSE and NASDAQ listed companies and worked with high growth and 'unicorn' businesses on a range of matters including general corporate and commercial, business advisory and strategic risk and compliance. Titus has a keen interest in the technology, media and telecoms space and the business of law.

Past work: Powa Technologies, Expedia Inc., British Sky Broadcasting, King & Wood Mallesons, Mercury, Russell McVeagh

Education:
- Executive MBA, Cass Business School, United Kingdom
- LLB, BSocSc (International Politics), University of Waikato, New Zealand