Keily Blair (born 1982 or 1983) is an Irish lawyer and business executive who is the

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Early life and education

Keily Blair (born 1982 or 1983) is a native of

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, Ireland, where she attended a private Catholic school for girls. On a visit to the United States she stayed with an aunt who had studied at

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. Soon after Blair was also offered a place at Oxford Brookes through clearing to study Law and Politics. In 2000, she moved to Oxford, England to study for a

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in law and politics.

Career

Blair is trained as a lawyer and spent early career years in English law firms. The '' Legal Cheek'' Careers Team notes that " the time Blair started the LPC egal Practice Courseat BPP aw Schoolin 2004, she’d secured a training contract at... hefirm

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" firm, joining them (by her description) in September 2005. After that, she held a position at

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. As of May 2019, Keily was the Director, Co-Lead of Contentious Data Protection Strategy, Legal and Compliance Services at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in the

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. Note, this quotation constitutes the only curated textual content at source; all other material is self-reported (video interview), and so requires a timestamp for verifiability. Blair left Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the London office of a San Francisco law firm, in January 2022, where she was head of cyber, privacy and data innovation, with

among her clients. She departed after being recruited by OnlyFans, where she began as chief strategy and operations officer; Todd Spangler, writing for ''

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in the UK. Blair was named

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of OnlyFans in July 2023, succeeding Amrapali Gan.

Awards and recognition

Blair was the recipient of the "Women in the City Future Leaders Award" in 2015. In 2016, she won Spark21's "Inspirational Women in Law Award", its first recipient.

Personal life

As of September 2022, Blair lived in London. As of January 2018, she was described as being a single parent to two.

References

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