Andrew Powell Director of IT and CIO

Andrew is responsible for setting and implementing the firm’s IT and information security strategies.

Having originally trained as an architect, he has spent two decades leading legal technology teams in Edinburgh and London, joining Macfarlanes in 2016. Recognised as a member of this year’s CIO100, he is a Chartered Fellow of the BCS, the co-chair of ILTA’s International Programming Team and past chair of the ILTACON Europe conference, and a member of legal technology innovation group, LITIG.