{"id":19153,"date":"2023-10-05T14:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.achilles.com\/team\/gavin-partridge\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:22:10","slug":"gavin-partridge","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/it\/about-us\/executive\/gavin-partridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Partridge"},"content":{"rendered":"                  \r\n                     \r\n                    <p class=\"team_profile_position\">Senior Vice President and General Counsel<\/p>\r\n                                        <div class=\"team_profile_img\">\r\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gavin_1393.jpg\" alt=\"Gavin Partridge\">\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                                        <div class=\"typical_text\">\r\n                        <div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-content\">\n<p><strong>Role at Achilles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Gavin is responsible for supporting teams across Achilles and aligning the increasingly complex legal side of what we do with the commercial aspects of the business.\u00a0 With operations across industries and geographies, the legal requirements are diverse, from contract negotiation to corporate governance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lessons from the past<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gavin has worked in tier one professional services and technology companies throughout his career, including Accenture and EY. His experience working closely with sales and procurement teams has given him valuable insight into how best to support customers, and means he is well placed to advise teams on how to negotiate a successful way through the deal process. \u00a0Gavin\u2019s view is that in order to be trusted to advise, you need to be visible within an organisation \u2013 this means people will bring you in early, and everyone benefits from taking a best practice approach early on.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on his approach to business, Gavin says \u2013 \u201cto inspire trust it\u2019s important to be seen as a business enabler \u2013 legal processes can be interpreted a barrier to decisions, but actually it is about delivering effective solutions to support good business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Away from work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite being a long suffering QPR fan, Gavin enjoys both watching and playing football, and is a keen sportsman regularly running and playing golf.\u00a0 In-between driving his two daughters to ballet and swimming lessons, Gavin tries to find time to enjoy a good Netflix series or box set, such as Homeland or The Crown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\r\n                    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":72529,"template":"","class_list":["post-19153","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/19153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achilles.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}