Deborah is a corporate and commercial lawyer who has enjoyed a varied career in law for over two decades. She has held significant General Counsel roles at Rolls Royce PLC and Siemens PLC. She has worked with high growth technology startups, accelerator programs and tech giants on the US East Coast before returning to the UK to take up the role of Chief Legal Officer at a London based LawTech SaaS company. She currently acts as external General Counsel to four post Series A start-ups as well as being CEO of FAR Technologies Limited - a new venture in the augmented reality and metaverse space.
Her other roles include being former chair of Evince Technology Limited (a venture backed company developing breakthrough electron devices using synthetic-diamond), a mentor for the Santander Breakthrough Business Leaders’ Programme, an advisor to the Women's Economic Imperative (as a response to the Call to Action of the United Nations), an advocate for the British American Business Council of New England and a non-executive director to a number of high growth tech companies.
Deborah has built teams and products for companies looking to innovate within the legal profession and has provided legal and strategic advice to thousands of startups, business angels and private investment funds across the globe.
Deborah has keynoted at University of Durham, Google, Harvard, IBM and MIT and has personally raised over £2billion in startup funding for teams around the world, including two ventures of her own. She is passionate about private equity, artificial intelligence and disruptive/emerging technology.