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Dennis de Rond is the founder of the award-winning brand agency Skyne based in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands and is the expert on anything related to brands.

Working for clients all over the globe, he had the opportunity to experience many different cultures and countries. It is a challenge to immerse yourself and try to understand consumer habits, preferences, and dreams in order to gain the insights for building successful brands and companies.

Dennis has a master's degree from Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam - University of Applied sciences. Born and raised in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Worked in leading positions for international branding and design agencies (London, New York, Amsterdam).

Lara is an ICF certified executive coach. In 2020 she launched a boutique executive coaching and business advisory called Lara Q Associates. She has particular expertise in the legal industry as well as working with entrepreneurs and women leaders. Lara is a trusted advisor, mentor, and coach to senior executives during times of challenge and transition.

Previously, Lara qualified as a solicitor in the UK with Dentons LLP. She practiced for several years specializing in European Competition law at the European Commission, Taylor Wessing LLP, and DLA Piper LLP. She transitioned as a business development professional working for Winston & Strawn LLP and Jones Day LLP. In Singapore, Lara was the Head of Business Development, Asia Pacific for Duane Morris & Selvam LLP.

Sourabh is a strategist supporting forward-looking professional services firms in pursuing their strategic, marketing, business development, and innovation agendas. He uses research and data analytics to drive revenue and profitability growth for leading law firms, audit firms, and consulting firms. He works with the offices of CSOs, CMOs, CBDOs, practice heads, and CIOs to help them develop winning strategies and gain a competitive edge.

Sourabh has over 12 years of consulting experience of supporting global law firms on projects in the fields of market opportunity assessment, go-to-market strategy, competitive intelligence, business growth, analytics, cost optimization, and practice development. He holds a bachelor's degree in law (JD equivalent) and business management from the Delhi university. He also holds a Master's degree in Business Laws from National Law School, Bengaluru.

Sharon has worked in leading Australian professional services firms for more than 20 years. She specialises in client and stakeholder communications, as well as plain language services. Sharon is a Principal at Write Results Pty Ltd, a consultancy that helps professional services firms, corporates and government agencies with their client communications, stakeholder communications and plain language writing and training needs.

Sharon is passionate, but not precious, about corporate communications. That was the value proposition of Write Results when she first established the company 20 years ago. Today that still stands, but with an extra dollop of commercial pragmatism. She gained that from her executive and management experience at Baker McKenzie, Ernst & Young, PwC and Sparke Helmore.

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Will is an SVP on the commercial team at Passle and joined the company in 2018.  He is responsible for showcasing and successfully implementing the Passle tool into a number of top 200 law firms globally.  Prior to his current role, Will has held commercial roles in technology companies covering a wide range of sectors including automotive, FMCG, Technology and retail. 

He is experienced senior sales and business development individual in the SaaS arena within both the b2b and b2c space. Skilled in solution and consultative selling within retail, agency, IT and travel sectors and currently expanding into the PS space.

Carl is the founder of CXINLAW, a consultancy that specializes in client and customer experience development within the legal sector. He is also a Director at PWC Newlaw and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Legal Innovation, College of Law (Australia).

Katie is a Director at Seldon Rosser, a recruitment company for professional services firms across the Asia Pacific region. She trained as a lawyer in the UK. When she moved to Australia in 2006, she realized she wanted to put her people skills to good use in a different career and moved into the field of recruitment.

Nathan has 11 years' experience in the broadcast television and corporate / commercial production sectors, working for the likes of BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and VMware, NHS plus many professional services organisations.