Derek Southall
Chairman and Co-founder @The Professional Alternative
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WORK HISTORY
Chairman and Co-founder @The Professional Alternative
The Professional Alternative ) will go live in the Summer. It is a subscription based platform, aimed at professional services firms, offering business expertise, practical tools and a new capability to get the right things done – faster, cheaper and without friction. Gold Standard Information, Online and On Demand. The platform will contain a wealth of resources in different formats and has been designed to help firms accelerate out of Covid.
EDUCATION
University of Birmingham
LLB Hons, Law
ABOUT DEREK SOUTHALL
Founder and CEO of Hyperscale Group Limited, Derek Southall, is a high profile and very well connected figure in the legal technology, innovation, knowledge management and digital marketplaces and was recently described as the “Doyen of legal IT and Innovation”. Derek has spent nearly 25 years in a range of leading strategic roles for a top 50 global law firm, for most of this time as a Partner and Head of Strategic Development and subsequently as Head of Digital and Innovation. During this period Derek oversaw and helped drive growth from £27 mil TO to in excess of £425 mil TO as well as driving and supporting numerous mergers and international expansion to 18 offices in 10 countries.Derek was ranked by the FT as one of the top three most innovative lawyers in the UK in its first study into the legal market. Derek also led the firm’s technology team to become ranked by the FT as the most innovative in Europe and subsequently the firm to ranked as the FT’s second most innovative firm in Europe as well as picking up a range of other awards. Derek chairs and was one of the founders of the Legal IT Innovators Group which has 75 or so of the top 100 firms as members and which plays a key role in driving ahead technological thinking and change for the good of the legal profession. At the request of clients Derek set up which is an advisory and implementation business helping clients develop strategies for and overcome challenges with technology, digital, knowledge management and innovation. Hyperscale Group works for a range of large global businesses, legal and compliance departments, professional services firms, private equity houses, litigation funders and start ups in a range of jurisdictions around the globe. Derek also serves on the advisory boards of a number of start ups and is also an investor.
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