ContractPodAi Adds Five Senior Hires to Scale Legal AI Platform

ContractPodAi announced five senior appointments across legal, product, and commercial functions on July 10, 2025. The London-based legal AI solutions company hired Jeremy Coleman as Vice President of Legal Research and Development, Kate Poppitt as Director of AI Programs (UK), Tara Bennett as General Manager for EMEA and APAC, Antoni Chrysostomou as Vice President of Sales for EMEA, and Chris Smith as Vice President of Account Management. These strategic hires reflect growing global demand for the company's agentic AI platform, Leah, and aim to help customers scale legal, compliance, and procurement operations.

The expansion addresses ContractPodAi's need to support increasing customer demand while advancing its AI platform's capabilities. Companies require more sophisticated legal AI solutions to handle complex contract lifecycle management, and these new hires bring deep expertise from top global law firms and enterprise technology companies.

Two Legal Veterans Join AI Development Team

Jeremy Coleman joins from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he served as Director of Innovation and led GenAI tool testing for lawyers. He helped build and scale the firm's Newcastle office and NRF Transform program. Coleman will focus on advancing Leah's legal intelligence capabilities.