Expansion of Global Team at ContractPodAi to Fuel the Next Stage of Legal AI Development
ContractPodAi, a leading provider of legal AI solutions and contract lifecycle management, has announced the appointment of five senior hires across legal, product, and commercial functions. These strategic additions are designed to scale and enhance the AI-driven legal platform, Leah.
Expanding Global Presence
Tara Bennett, General Manager for EMEA and APAC, brings two decades of enterprise tech leadership, with a focus on legal tech and GRC over the past five years. Bennett will lead regional management for ContractPodAi, helping to expand Leah’s presence and adoption across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Pacific regions.
Antoni Chrysostomou, Vice President of Sales, EMEA, has over 20 years of sales leadership experience, including more than a decade in LegalTech. He is charged with driving sales growth in the EMEA region, expanding Leah’s customer base and market reach.
Deepening Legal Expertise
Jeremy Coleman, Vice President of Legal Research and Development, joins ContractPodAi with extensive legal background from top global firms and in-house roles. His focus will be on advancing Leah’s legal intelligence. With a background as Director of Innovation at Norton Rose Fulbright, Coleman brings experience in reimagining legal service delivery, testing GenAI tools for lawyers, and leading innovation programs.
Kate Poppitt, Director of AI Programs (UK), brings 12+ years of experience at top firms Hogan Lovells and Dentons. She will shape Leah’s legal reasoning and output quality, leveraging her expertise in compliance, regulatory law, and sanctions.
Strengthening Go-to-Market Capabilities
Chris Smith, Vice President of Account Management, brings a wealth of experience from Box, Coursera, and Cledara. He will oversee customer success and account management, ensuring clients effectively leverage Leah, thereby increasing retention and customer satisfaction.
These hires will help accelerate the deployment of Leah and strengthen its impact across legal, compliance, and procurement functions. They will serve customers better, from onboarding to innovation, and support ContractPodAi’s broader mission to deliver intelligent automation at scale.
The strategic expansion reflects growing global demand for ContractPodAi’s agentic AI platform, Leah. ContractPodAi has been recognised as a CLM Visionary by Gartner the last four consecutive years and named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for AI-Enabled Buy-Side CLM Applications.
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[1] ContractPodAi Press Release, 2023 [2] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for CLM, [year] [3] IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Buy-Side CLM Applications 2025 Vendor Assessment, [year] [4] Personal interviews with the new hires, 2023
- To drive the expansion of Leah's global reach, Tara Bennett, with her two decades of experience in legal tech and enterprise tech, has been appointed as the General Manager for EMEA and APAC at ContractPodAi, aiming to increase Leah's presence and adoption across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific regions.
- To further improve Leah's legal intelligence and strengthen go-to-market capabilities, Jeremy Coleman, with his extensive legal background from top global firms and in-house roles, has joined ContractPodAi as Vice President of Legal Research and Development, while Chris Smith, with his wealth of experience from Box, Coursera, and Cledara, has been appointed as Vice President of Account Management, overseeing customer success and account management to ensure clients effectively leverage Leah.
