Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
I am a Non-Executive Director and board advisor building a portfolio across energy, infrastructure, real estate and large-scale development. Over 30 years, I have led governance, risk, compliance and legal functions at the board level, across nearly two decades at GE Power, three years at NEOM, advisory mandates with Dentons Nextlaw, and earlier roles at private law firms in Canada and Eastern Europe, operating at a USD 40bn to USD 60bn scale. I focus on helping boards navigate uncertainty, allocate capital effectively and implement governance that supports delivery rather than slows it down. My experience combines governance, risk and legal judgement with a strong commercial perspective, developed across major transactions, post-acquisition integration and multi-jurisdictional operations in highly regulated environments. My governance work spans delegation of authority design, board and committee reporting, approval frameworks, compliance programme leadership, enterprise risk oversight, and multi-jurisdictional investigations closed without regulatory sanction. I have built and led teams across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, working fluently in six languages and across diverse regulatory, cultural, and institutional settings, bringing governance depth and cross-cultural fluency to boards operating in complex international environments. I hold board education qualifications from the Financial Times (Board Director Diploma, 2026), Harvard Business School and IESE (Value Creation Through Effective Boards, 2025), and IESE and WHU Otto Beisheim School (High-Performance Board Member, 2024). I am admitted to the Bar in England and Wales (Middle Temple), Québec (inactive), Spain, Greece, and am a licensed sole professional in Dubai (inactive). I hold a UAE Golden Visa, and am based in Barcelona, with regular international availability. I am focused on building a Non-Executive Director portfolio and selectively take on interim or fractional Chief Legal, General Counsel, or Chief Governance, Risk and Compliance mandates as a bridge. I welcome conversations with chairs, nomination committees and board search professionals.
Led legal, governance, risk and compliance for Magna, NEOM's 406 km² coastal luxury region on the Gulf of Aqaba, developed within NEOM's pillars of conservation, livability and business, with 95% of the land preserved as nature. Built and scaled the Legal and GRC functions across a portfolio of 16 hotels, around 1,600 hotel keys, around 3,500 premium residences, golf courses, marinas, polo and racquet clubs, and land, air and sea mobility, power and water infrastructure. · Built and deployed end-to-end governance architecture, including delegations of authority, approval frameworks and board reporting, holding delivery teams to account through accountability discipline at scale. · Led negotiation of high-value transactions and provided governance oversight on risk allocation, partner alignment and long-term value across infrastructure, hospitality, digital and strategic partnerships. · Developed NEOM’s first Land Development Strategy and off-plan sales and licensing framework, and guided its governance and regulatory architecture to support scalable, compliant growth. · Led the legal workstream for NEOM's UNESCO World Heritage bid of the Red Sea reefs, embedding conservation and biodiversity standards into governance while balancing ecological stewardship with commercial delivery. · Advised on founding laws and regulations for NEOM's Special Economic Zone (property, planning, off-plan sales, leasing, asset management, financing) as an active contributor to the NEOM Authority working groups. · Established compliance frameworks covering workforce welfare governance across ~2,000 workers, IP protection across 12 jurisdictions, and AI-enabled contract lifecycle management (Sirion). Additional roles: Acting General Counsel, Trojena (2023 to 2024); General Counsel, NEOM Yachting (from February 2025).
Independent Advisor | Legal Transformation & GRC Advisory · Advised Dentons on the development and growth of its legal transformation and GRC advisory practice, shaping service offerings, platforms, and client propositions for boards, GCs and GRC leaders. · Advised clients’ boards, CEOs and ExComs, including Britishvolt (GBP 4bn battery gigafactory programme) and the GBP 2bn UK subsidiary of Jardines (Fortune 500), designing legal operating models, governance and compliance frameworks, contracting systems and playbooks, KPIs and claims management processes.
- GC Western Europe, Power - GC EMEA, Energy Connections - GC Global, Power Generation Services - Global GC Commercial, Energy Services Advised CEOs, boards and executive committees on legal, governance, regulatory strategy and enterprise risk across multi-billion dollar businesses spanning the full energy value chain (Nuclear, Gas, Hydro, Steam, Grid, Wind, Automation & Controls, Power Conversion, Software). · Led EMEA legal, compliance and contract-management integration following GE's acquisition of Alstom Power & Grid and numerous acquisitions, creating common governance, controls and operating models. Led the "onePower" legal organisation, integrating lawyers across units, countries and cultures into a single team. · Strengthened governance and risk across 200+ entities through enterprise compliance, whistleblowing and control frameworks. Designed Power EMEA's multi-jurisdictional crime-prevention programme and, as GE Infrastructure FCPA focal point, established risk-based controls for agents, sanctioned countries and customer exits. · Managed board-level risk through high-exposure crisis, litigation and government matters: asbestos litigation, site-contamination actions, product recalls across multiple jurisdictions, exploration rights in the disputed East Mediterranean, and Olympic Games compliance investigations. · Oversaw landmark projects across wind, solar, storage, grid, nuclear and gas: e.g. three French offshore substations totalling 1.5 GW, the Nice Grid smart grid, GE Hydro supply to Hydro-Québec, UK offshore wind substations, gas turbine supply and services agreement worldwide, the France-Italy HVDC Alpine link, and Hinkley Point C nuclear. · Designed GE Power's global delegation of authority framework, cutting approval deviations 37% and lifting local decision-making 30%. Reduced external legal spend 84% while the business grew 27%, and delivered commercial training to 4,000+ employees across 25 countries.
Corporate and Finance Partner advising major corporates across Greece and the Balkans on M&A, corporate finance, privatisations, banking, insurance, and energy. Headed the firm's energy group and established offices in Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade, Skopje, and Zagreb, all ranked top tier in Legal 500 above UK and US firms. Recognised as Leading Energy Lawyer in Greece, Counsel 3000 and Legal 500, 2001.
Litigation associate at a leading Canadian litigation boutique, representing corporate and institutional clients before judicial and arbitration tribunals in commercial, financial, professional liability and shareholder disputes.