An international, cross-industry career that has moved from corporate management to extensive research, advisory and capability development services to public, private and third sector organisations. Tim has lived and worked in the UK, France (3 years) and United States (20 years), building an impressive research and entrepreneurial record, with demonstrated commitment to delivering social benefit.

As Founder and President, World Commerce & Contracting (formerly International Association for Contract & Commercial Management), Tim has built a 72,000 member worldwide non-profit association which increasingly influences commercial policies and contracting practices in major corporations and governments. In September 2019, he was presented with the Financial Times ‘Market Shaper of the Year’ Award.

Tim was until recently Professor and Chair, International Commercial & Contract Management, University of Leeds, School of Law, where he taught and led development of inter-disciplinary commercial programs.

Prior to founding World Commerce & Contracting, Tim was on the Chairman’s staff at IBM Corporation and led the development of worldwide commercial processes and skills. His early career included management roles in banking, automotive and aerospace industries, where he led negotiations up to $1.5 billion in value. He has served in advisory roles for government departments in various countries, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Japan.

Claude is currently a Commercial Excellence Lead (Director) responsible for delivering value, maximizing profits to a large ICT legal department. I am actively involved in a large CLM transformation focusing on tools and processes design, providing insights on data analytics, increased performance and continuous improvements. I recently moved to BriefBox which provides a software based solutions to the legal industry’s General Counsels and law firms. BriefBox develops innovative and disruptive solutions to overcome the fragmented legal tech environment, being the smart central choice for legal professionals who are moving through the industry’s digital transformation.

Claude has 20+ years of experience as a Bid Manager, Senior Contract Manager and as a Commercial Director on mega size accounts focusing on red accounts remediations, claims, disputes, upsells and negotiation of complex outsourcing deals.

Suvi Hirvonen-Ere is a seasoned legal, commercial and contract management executive with 20 years of international work experience in leadership roles mainly in global corporations. She is experienced in legal, commercial and contract management, risk management, strategy, transformation, sustainability and sales in mainly in the fields of ICT and energy. Suvi has recently accomplished her long-term ambition, the Doctor of Laws degree with her doctoral dissertation on ‘Contract Management Modus Operandi in the Post-Enron World’. Her second PhD on Sustainable Business at the Aalto University School of Business is soon accomplished. In addition to working at corporations, Suvi enjoys advising SMEs and start-ups. She is an Advisory Board Member and Board Advisor, a mentor, a speaker, an author, and a WorldCC Fellow and an elected member in the WorldCC Council. In her spare time, Suvi is involved in various community activities on a pro bono basis, such as mentoring, that she has been active with since 2006. She is currently a mentor in the Finland Chamber of Commerce Women Leaders’ Mentoring Program, aiming to get more diversity in the corporate boards.

Sally supports the World Commerce and Contracting global team in the pursuit of both the recognition of and excellence in Commercial and Contract Management. She is an experienced and accomplished commercial and contracts management professional, holding senior commercial positions at a range of corporate and multi-national organizations.

After gaining an Honors degree in Law, Sally spent her time in the house in the corporate sector, where she worked globally in the Telecomms and IT industries, before establishing her own legal and commercial consultancy in 2007. Sally is passionate about enabling business efficiency and growth through contracting and commercial excellence; she understands the need for robust business operations to drive these efficiencies, together with the requirement for effective communication and collaboration at all times. Whether in contract development, negotiation, training or general communications,

Sally has built a reputation for service excellence and responsiveness. Her focus is on the creation of positive and successful business relationships, constantly striving to ensure that businesses realize their true potential and value.

Stefania Passera, Contract Designer in Residence (World Commerce & Contracting), CEO (Passera Design)

Stefania Passera is a contract design and simplification expert based in Espoo, Finland. She runs her one-woman consultancy Passera Design, and is Contract Designer in Residence at World Commerce & Contracting. In these roles, she helps organizations transform their contracts and policies into user-friendly, effective tools that work better for business.

Stefania is an all-rounder, backing her design expertise with a solid academic background. She has served as Assistant Professor at the University of Vaasa, Department of Business Law, and has earned her doctoral degree from Aalto University School of Science. She has guest lectured at prestigious institutions such as Stanford University, Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession, KU Leuven, UC Louvain, European University Institute, ESADE Law School, and California Western School of Law.

She is a co-founder of the Legal Design Alliance, a co-author of the Legal Design Manifesto, and the creator of Legal Design Jam. In 2020, she has received the European Women of Legal Tech Award.

Head of international Marine Legal & Compliance team at Wärtsilä. Leading legal function and compliance of data protection, insurances and risk management. Member of the divisional management team, boards and committees. Passionate about sustainability, decarbonation and collaboration.

I have a proven track record on demanding IPR and ICT contract matters as well as deep insight to various demanding privacy and digitalization topics.

My background as an Attorney-at-Law and in-house counsel has given me strong knowledge of Intellectual Property legislation and demanding contractual and privacy matters. I also had the opportunity to develop my leadership and management skills while working as a Team Leader and IP Lawyer in a leading IP house.

Now, I’ll focus on providing legal expertise on IPR and ICT arrangements as Corporate Counsel for Kesko Oyj.

Specialties: ICT Agreements, Intellectual Property Rights, Agreement Negotiations, Contract Drafting and Commercial Contract Management

Anna Hurmerinta-Haanpää is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Finland. She defended her doctoral dissertation on proactive, functional contracts in spring 2021. At the moment her research interests include proactive, collaborative, responsible and sustainable contracts and contracting. Besides her research, she is eager to develop legal education

Nils-Erik Jansson is a lawyer and serial entrepreneur from Gothenburg, Sweden, who founded Jansson & Norin, Sweden’s first NewLaw firm, which was exited to Fondia Oy in 2017. With 15 years of experience practicing business and contract law, he saw his industry peers struggling with the repetitive admin work associated with contracts thus founded Precisely in 2014. For the last six years, with the Precisely team, he has been on a mission to set a new standard for digital contracting.

I am a goal-oriented leader with a passion for renewal and customer experience development. My comfort zone is between a rock and a hard place. Also, I am a wannabe coder.

Julian Kivett is a Principal Solutions Consultant supporting the EMEA region. Having joined DocuSign five years ago, Julian works with enterprises to help them digitally transform their agreement processes using the DocuSign Agreement Cloud.

Jonas Karlsson supports customers on their contract digital transformation journey. As a Presales Director at Icertis, the recognised leader in enterprise contract lifecycle management, he is charged with sharing CLM best practices with contracting teams and evangelising innovative technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Blockchain. Jonas is passionate about converting customer challenges into understandable and relevant solutions.

Meet Adrien Grenat, Director – Presales, at Sirion. Armed with a rich experience in solution consulting, account planning, product workshops and demos, Adrien supports sales teams across geographies by devising solutions to cater to emerging customer needs. He collaborates and works with the Global Presales team to enable companies to contract smarter and leverage AI-powered CLM best strategies.

Mira is procurement leader and business strategist with a career spent in senior procurement roles, including Chief Procurement Officer with global market leaders. Her background is in real-estate, supply chain and procurement and her international work experience expands over several industries including telecommunications, banking, marketing & media, and public service. Mira has a Bachelor of Business Administration and is currently writing her supply chain focused thesis as part of her almost finished Master of Science (MSc.) studies (Economics and Business). She is passionate about ethical and sustainable sourcing, decarbonizing, and achieving positive outcomes both commercially and sustainably through contracting and procurement activity.