About Leor
Leor is Chief Commercial Officer at Kingsley Napley. He has served on the Management Board, Management Executive, and Senior Leadership Teams. Leor leads on driving revenue growth and profitability. He has managed Brand, Business Development, Business Planning, Business Review, Commercial, Communications, Digital, Marketing, Knowledge & Information and Partnership functions for the firm. Prior to his current role, Leor was Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer at KN.
Leor is a well-known Chief Marketing Officer in professional services. He has spent over 25 years in legal, accounting, and consulting firms, including in international Marketing, Communications and Business Development Director roles at Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and FTI Consulting, and as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of law firm funder Augusta. Earlier in his career, Leor acted as chief of staff for the Chief Executive of a global FTSE 100 corporate, having previously worked as a fee earner, qualifying in a Big 4 firm.
His teams have won numerous awards, including Marketing / BD (Business Development) Team of the Year, PR of the Year, and Website of the Year at the Brand Management & Reputation Awards, and have been shortlisted for Best Business Support Team at the ALM British Legal Awards, Marketing Communication Strategy at the Modern Law Awards, and Best Marketing Campaign by the Managing Partners’ Forum (MPF). His co-authored article on law firm brand in Law360 UK was listed in the Most-Read Articles of the Year 2024, and he was named in “15 Most Influential Marketers In Professional Services” by B2B Marketing in 2023.
Leor sits as a non-executive on the Board of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Charity and industry body MPF. He is Chair of the MPF Strategy & Marketing Group (a networking group for Chief Marketing Officers in professional service firms), the Metropolitan Police Canons Ward Panel, Co-Chair of the Public Relations & Communications Association Legal Group, and chairs the PM Forum Annual Conference (for marketing leaders in professional service firms). He served on the Board of the University of London Queen Mary Business School for 12 years.
He is a regular speaker, moderator and chair at marketing and business development conferences, webinars, and podcasts, including for law firm organisations such as the International Bar Association, The Lawyer, Briefing, London Law Expo, British Legal Technology Forum, Professional Services Leadership Conference, and PM Forum, as well as publishers such as Marketing Week, PR Week and B2B Marketing, and networks such as Alternative Insights, Business Marketing Club, CMO Club, CMO Inspired, Rockstar CMO and Ortus CMO Chats. He has also authored articles on marketing and BD in legal titles such as Law 360, Law Society Gazette, New Law Journal and PM Magazine.
Leor is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a graduate of both the Oxford Saïd and Cambridge Judge professional service firm leadership programmes, and both the Cranfield and London Business School strategy/marketing director programmes. He holds a chartered financial analysis qualification from CISI, the Non-Executive Director Certificate from CIPFA/NEDA, the Certificate in Investor Relations from IRS, a Master’s in Management from Loughborough, and a Bachelor’s in Politics & International Relations from Warwick.
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