Harnessing Technology for Effective Crisis Management

Justine has held various board, executive and company secretary appointments throughout her international career. Justine started her company secretarial career in-house in the  UK Nuclear & Property sectors, before entering the world of professional services.

Internationally, Justine has held a number of senior roles, more lately Chief Executive and Global Head of Client Services for an International Law Firm leading a team providing corporate, trust, regulatory and accounting services in the UK, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Since returning to the UK, Justine formed her own consultancy firm, Blakesley Consulting, providing regulatory advisory services to  international clients.

Justine is currently the Company Secretary for Rolls-Royce SMR.

Justine is an active Fellow of the Corporate Governance Institute and Institute of Directors.

Prior to joining Diligent, I founded and was CEO of a company called CyberGRX which provided third party risk management built on the concept of a one-to-many exchange. As CyberGRX grew to assessing over 15,000+ third parties, several of them reached out to see how they could use their CyberGRX assessment to report to their board of directors, and if we would be able to assist them with the process

Jo is a partner and leads the media and reputation team in London. Jo has over 20 years' experience of looking after the reputation and privacy of some of the world's most well-known individuals and businesses. Described as ‘calm and insightful' by Chambers & Partners HNW, Jo advises clients either prior to publication or broadcast of stories concerning them, or post-publication where media or online content is inaccurate, intrusive or harassing. 'Jo Sanders is highly experienced and very skilled in the area'. 'She has fantastic knowledge of the space and always understands the ultimate aims of the matters at hand, and is a great problem solver'. (Chambers HNW 2023). Her practice comprises all aspects of reputation and privacy law, such as libel, misuse of private information and breach of confidence,cyber-hacking media regulatory codes, and protection from harassment. Her practice is constantly innovating to tailor advice to new situations and new threats to information use. Reflecting the expansion of the global trade in information, Jo's practice has grown to include contentious data protection, including litigation over data subject access rights and data breach compensation claims. Jo was previously a news journalist and PR adviser before becoming a media litigator.