Made.com general counsel Lisa Gan Tomlins arrived at the ecommerce homeware business four years after its launch.
In that time it had transformed from tech start-up to reportedly testing demand for a £100m listing earlier this year. The fast-growing outfit had survived without an in-house lawyer until then, and Gan Tomlins was under pressure to prove her worth. Here’s how she did it.
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