Press Release:Buying Legal Council Appoints Jason Winmill as New ChairMar 02, 2023 1:00 PM ET The Buying Legal® Council (BLC), the international professional organization for legal sourcing and procurement, has announced the appointment of Jason Winmill as Chair. Dr. Silvia Hodges Silverstein is transitioning from her senior leadership role, in which she served for many years.
“It is vital to have a seasoned practitioner lead the BLC, which has long focused its programming on supporting in-house procurement professionals,” said Dr. Hodges Silverstein. “Jason is an ideal successor to help launch BLC into an exciting new chapter given his deep knowledge of legal sourcing, legal operations, and legal department management. His established history with the BLC, as both a participant and educator, make for a great fit.”
“The community of legal procurement professionals organized under the BLC today would not exist without Silvia,” said BLC Advisory Board Member Dr. Orazio Difruscolo in a statement. “We express our immense gratitude to Silvia for her commitment to the organization over the past decade. Her leadership and guidance have been instrumental to BLC since its founding, and we are excited to follow her in her next endeavors.” “Silvia has done more than perhaps any other person to create the legal sourcing and procurement profession,” Winmill shared. “She set the standard towards which so many of us, myself included, aspire.”In his role as Chair, Winmill will work closely with the BLC Advisory Board to lead the organization’s broad set of professional and educational offerings, including its annual conferences in New York and London, and webinar series held throughout the year.
Buying Legal Council, established in 2014, is the world’s leading organization dedicated to supporting professionals with responsibilities for legal sourcing. The Council has led educational events in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. BLC serves professionals tasked with sourcing legal services and managing supplier relationships through enhanced professional training, dedicated legal procurement resources, and a community of legal procurement peers. Its members support in-house legal departments across a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, financial services, insurance, technology, retail, and consumer goods, among others. Jason Winmill is the Managing Partner of Argopoint, a leading legal department consulting firm dedicated to helping corporate legal departments with their management challenges. He has advised across a range of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, consumer products, financial services, media, manufacturing, insurance, education, travel and leisure, non-profits, and utilities. Winmill has been an active member of BLC since 2015, including his contributions as an author to BLC publications The Definitive Guide to Buying Legal Services (2021) and Legal Procurement Handbook (2015). Winmill is an honors graduate of Harvard College and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School. For questions, please contact Doria Delgado-Thompson at doria@buyinglegal.com |
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