Amanda is the CEO of Trustable Software, www.trustable.io and joint organiser of the UK Open Source Awards, having been a judge of the awards in 2014 and 2015. Trustable Software is a new initiative looking at risk and transparency in Software.
She was General Counsel of Canonical, setting up the global legal team and running this for 5 years and has worked in a variety of sectors, ranging from Fashion to Fintech, across EMEA, US, AsiaPac and Emerging Markets, based out of the UK and Amsterdam.
As well as many years of structuring and negotiating a multitude of deals, her roles have included contribution to and leadership of a number multi-organisational collaborative projects and open source initiatives. She has expertise in open source software, governance, IP, compliance audits, policies and processes as well as commercialisation and contracting around open source. Amanda was a member of the Open Stack Drafting Committee in 2012.
Amanda is a regular international speaker and author covering technology, collaboration and legal issues.
As well as her role at Trustable, Amanda is currently a European Representative of the defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network; a Director of Open UK; an Executive Editor and Founder of the International Free and Open Source Law Review; on the OASIS Open Projects’ Advisory Council (open source and open standards); and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.