Day in the life of a hack

Carla is a Partner and Head of the Commercial Team at Slater Heelis.  With nearly two decades of experience, Carla brings unparalleled expertise in Commercial Law, IT Law, and Intellectual Property Rights.

Carla has worked extensively across the creative industries, advising design agencies on their commercial terms, IP assignments, drafting and negotiating film production agreements and structuring revenue-sharing arrangements for touring artists.   Carla has drafted contractual arrangements for the delivery of immersive experience events under licence from Warner Bros, and supported voice-over artists and festival organisers with everything from commercial contracts, IP licensing to data compliance.

Carla provides comprehensive commercial support to businesses of all sizes—from innovative start-ups to established PLCs—across Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Life Sciences sectors and understands that creative businesses need legal advice that moves at the speed of innovation.

Carla’s strong Commercial/IT background makes her uniquely positioned to understand the intersection of creativity and technology that drives modern media businesses. She has been consistently recognised by The Legal 500 as a Leading Individual for IT/Technology Law, and was a finalist for Corporate/Commercial Team of the Year at the Manchester Legal Awards.

Will Poole is the co-founder of Strand Intelligence, with experience as a DFIR specialist having been involved in frontline incident response to large scale cyber attacks across the UK.

Will previously served as Principal Cyber Investigation Officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), where he led cyber incident investigations and regulatory engagement following serious data breaches. He worked directly with organisations under regulatory scrutiny, assessing the quality of technical response, evidence, and reporting.

Following the ICO, Will transitioned into frontline incident response – leading ransomware, business email compromise, and large scale breach investigations across regulated and commercial environments.

Will founded Strand to build the tool he wished he’d had during his years in incident response. Making DFIR investigations accessible to organisations when they need it most, supercharging DFIR teams in delivering critical services to victims, and helping businesses across all sectors understand the threats of cyberattacks, so they can combat them effectively.

Rachel Ferguson is an account director at Altrincham based full-service marketing agency RMS. She has 17 years’ experience advising clients across a wide range of sectors, and industries. This gives her a broad commercial and stakeholder perspective.

Rachel has spent many years advising clients on communications in times of a crisis including around data breaches, health and safety incidents and manufacturing contamination incidents and so has built up a breadth of expertise allowing her to provide strategic counsel that helps clients navigate challenging and sensitive situations.