About

iflix, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, is the world’s leading entertainment service for emerging markets. Starting out as a corporate lawyer at Allen & Overy before moving in-house to Sky, Emily Gebbett assumed her role at iflix after having worked on Sky’s investment in iflix. She regards this time as a particular career highlight: ‘It was my first fundraising for a start-up and I was overwhelmed by the dedication, energy and fast-paced environment at iflix. The iflix team were incredibly impressive and threw themselves into the transaction passionately’. She has matched this dedication since taking on her current role. ‘There’s never a dull moment at iflix’ she explains ‘the business is constantly evolving and it’s exciting to be a part of that’. The team is a busy one and supports all aspects of the business from content acquisition to corporate finance and everything in between. It focusses on managing risk and delivering practical solutions to issues while allowing the business to continue at pace. She has shown an extremely proactive attitude to both overseeing and developing the company’s legal function. The legal team has doubled in size since she joined. She says ‘I am up-skilling the team so we are all cross-functional so we can better serve the business. This year the team designed a bespoke end-to-end contract lifecycle management system which encompasses automated contract drafting for our more standard agreements. We built a logic system linking the responses from a simple multiple-choice questionnaire to template clauses. This enables the business to self-serve and frees up the team to add value in other areas’.