Nathan Hayes is IT director at Osborne Clarke. With almost 20 years of experience in the delivery, sourcing, strategic development and transformation of IT in the legal market, Nathan has provided these services to numerous law firms including CMS Cameron McKenna and Bevan Brittan. His latest challenge is to balance Osborne Clarke's ambitious growth across Europe and Asia, whilst developing and adhering to the firm's global IT strategy and meeting it's people's high expectation of service, all within the context of good financial management.

Nathan is an active member of the Legal IT community making regular contributions at conferences and to a range of legal publications. Prior to moving into the legal sector, Nathan enjoyed extensive experience within the global distribution sector. When away from the office, he can be found surfing attached to a kite, and occasionally being dragged out to sea in a tangle of lines.