Senior Counsel Virtual Sessions

Bill McCluggage is an IT and cyber-security professional with over 30 years in senior executive roles within both the public and private sectors. He is currently a vCISO for a bank in London and has delivered a range of independent cyber security assurance reviews for major transformation projects across several UK banks.

Former roles have included: Deputy UK Government CIO, an Executive Director role in the Cabinet Office, Chief Technologist Public Sector for EMC Systems UK (now Dell Technologies), CIO for the Irish Government and more recently Head of Information Security, Assurance and Counter-fraud at the Open Banking Implementation Entity. He is currently on the Board of a Housing Association where he chair’s the Audit & Risk Committee; he is a NED for a company that specialises in encrypted file sharing and is a Chairman and Director of the Northern Ireland Fraud Forum.

Matthew is a partner in the commercial team at Cripps LLP, specialising in technology, privacy and AI laws and regulations. Matthew also works on complex outsourcing projects and contract negotiations.

Matthew is one of only 20 solicitors to hold Accredited IT Lawyer status with the Society for Computers and Law and one of only 13 lawyers to sit on the Thomson Reuters Practical Law data protection consultation board. Matthew is retained by some of the UK’s largest corporations and household names, providing advice on the trickiest legal topics of the day which are often business critical or relevant to technological growth or innovation.

Matthew is an experienced public speaker and regularly presents to large audiences on topics that he loves. Matthew frequently comments on tech and privacy law and has been featured in the BBC News, City AM and, most regularly, The Times.

Matthew is ranked in the leading legal directory, Chambers and Partners 2024.

Catie is the General Counsel for Cambridge University Press & Assessment. She leads a team of legal, compliance and sustainability professionals supporting an international educational, research publishing and assessments business. She also has responsibility for AI governance, community engagement and brand. She was previously Chief Privacy Officer and held a number of other roles at another large education organisation, Pearson.

She is a board director for the Copyright Clearance Center, is on the Law Society’s Climate Change Working Group and a member of Anglia Ruskin University’s Legal Advisory Board.

In this session, we’ll delve into some of the competition law regulators' recent prosecutions on labour market infringements, consider why this has been pushed up the enforcement priorities and provide our recommendations to minimise risks