Simon Deane-Johns

Current

Consultant Lawyer at Axiom
Consultant Lawyer at Keystone Law

Past

General Counsel & Company Secretary at Zopa
Legal & Compliance Director, igroup at GE Consumer Finance
General Counsel & Executive Director at earthport plc

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Industry

Financial Services

Websites

Axiom

Simon Deane-Johns’s Summary

Consultant lawyer to corporate clients in financial services, e-business and IT. Currently at Amazon.com (since March 2008). Previously at TIBCO Software, Inc (Jan/Feb 2008).

A co-founder and co-inventor of Zopa, the world's first online marketplace where people lend directly to each other. Advised on product design, regulation, site, systems, operational risk, compliance, public affairs; and franchise, outsourcing and supplier contracts. Led projects to enable lending through personal pensions and trade finance for SMEs.

Keystone Law clients have included M:Metrics (mobile market research - now part of ComScore); SchoolofEverything.com (P2P education); Glaxstar; Wonga.com (online lender); Rentability (vacation rental search); Everybodybetter.com (complementary healthcare); Mondo Visione (publisher of Exchanges Handbook); ProCheckUp (IT security services).

Speaking: "Behavioural Targeting" at Market Research Society's Annual Conference (Sept 09); "Behavioural Targeting" at SCL Information Governance Conference (May 09); SCL Policy Forum "Legislating for Web 2.0" (Sept 08); "The Future of Money" at RCA (Nov 07); "What is Web 2.0?" at SCL Policy Forum (Sept 07); SCL Annual Conference "Web 2.0 – Internet Law in the 21st Century" (June 07); Blog: Pragmatist. Articles: "Behavioural Targeting of Internet Advertising" (SCL and PLC June 09); SCL: "Cross-Border Retail and Consumer Credit in the EU" (July 07), "Signing Hundreds of Contracts Online Made Easy" (July 06), "Counter-regulation" (Mar '06).

Previous board experience with legal, compliance and company secretarial responsibility at Zopa, GE Consumer Finance and Earthport plc (AIM-listed P2P e-payments). Initiated and co-ordinated e-commerce strategy for DLA Piper. Early commercial exposure with Reuters legal in London and New York, after four years as a Barrister in Sydney.

Simon Deane-Johns’s Specialties:

Managing legal, compliance and company secretarial functions; strategic legal input to business plans and board decisions; obtaining financial regulatory approvals; managing public affairs; evaluating legal and operational risk; drafting distribution, franchise, JV agreements; legal advice on e-business, IT, outsourcing, retail financial services (mortgages, loans, insurance, payments, anti-money laundering); advice to start-ups, including site and supplier terms.

Additional Information

Simon Deane-Johns’s Websites:

Axiom

Simon Deane-Johns’s Groups:

Member of the Stewards' Enclosure, Henley Royal Regatta
Member of the Media Board of the Society for Computers and Law (SCL) 2001 to date
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales (1996)
Admitted as an attorney in New York State (1997)
Admitted as a barrister in Victoria, Australia (1992)
Admitted as barrister in New South Wales, Australia (1990)
Member of Meland Golfklubb, Bergen, Norway since 2003
Member of Vesta Rowing Club 1985-1998
Director of Sydney Rowing Club Ltd in 1987 (Vice Captain) and 1988 (Captain).