Leor Franks

Leor is Chief Business Development & Marketing Officer at Kingsley Napley - Independent Law Firm Of The Year 2022. He leads Business Development, Business Planning, Communications, Digital, Marketing, and Knowledge & Information functions, and is a member of the Management Board and Executive Team.

Leor is recognised as one of the most influential Chief Marketing Officers in professional services. He has spent nearly 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 FTSE 100 multinational, 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 Marketing Communication Strategy at the Modern Law Awards, and Best Marketing Campaign by the Managing Partners' Forum (MPF).

Leor sits as a non-executive on the Advisory Boards of the University of London Queen Mary Business School and industry body MPF. He is Chair of the MPF Marketing & Strategy Group (a networking group for Chief Marketing Officers in professional service firms), the PM Forum Annual Conference, the Metropolitan Police Canons Ward Panel, and Co-Chair of the Public Relations & Communications Association Legal Group.

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, and PM Forum, and publishers such as Marketing Week, PR Week, CMO Club, Rockstar CMO, Ortus CMO Chats, and B2B Marketing.

Leor is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a graduate of both the Oxford Said and Cambridge Judge professional service firm leadership programmes, and both the Cranfield and London Business School marketing director programmes. He holds a chartered financial analysis qualification from CISI, a master's in management from Loughborough and a bachelor's in politics from Warwick.