Meet the Founders
Alexis Goldfinch
Solicitor (England and Wales) · IAPP Certified AI Governance Professional
Alexis is a Fractional General Counsel and IAPP Certified AI Governance Professional with over 17 years’ legal and commercial experience. She began her career at Freshfields before moving in-house, ultimately becoming Head of Legal at Alpha FMC where she built and led the legal function through rapid international growth and acquisitions.
Today, Alexis works closely with founders, CEOs and boards of scaling and PE-backed businesses, bringing a legal and commercial perspective to the decisions that shape growth, investment and long-term value.
Alongside her Fractional GC practice, Alexis specialises in AI governance, advising leadership and legal teams on the legal, commercial and governance challenges created by AI. At Arkmont, she combines senior legal judgement, first-hand experience of building governance inside businesses and specialist AI governance expertise.
Alexis is known for getting quickly to the heart of complex problems, translating them into clear, practical decisions, and focusing leadership teams on the risks that genuinely matter. She works closely with the people inside the business, building trust quickly and bringing energy, clarity and a sense of humour to the work along the way.
Philip Dekker
Solicitor (England and Wales) · IAPP Certified AI Governance Professional
Philip is a Fractional General Counsel and IAPP Certified AI Governance Professional with over 13 years’ legal and commercial experience across the UK, Amsterdam and Switzerland. He trained at Freshfields before moving into senior in-house roles with scaling businesses and global enterprises.
As Senior Managing Counsel at Booking.com in Amsterdam, Philip led the legal team supporting its multi-billion-euro accommodations business across more than 200 markets, advising senior leadership on commercial strategy, technology and the regulatory issues arising from operating a global digital business at scale. He has also served as Head of Legal at FareHarbor, a global SaaS business, on secondment.
Today, Philip works with technology and scaling businesses on AI governance, product risk and the commercial decisions beneath them, including businesses advancing through funding rounds.
His view of governance is that it has to work in practice: policies only have value when people understand them, decisions can be made against them, and the business can operate within them.
At Arkmont, Philip brings together senior in-house experience, legal judgement and AI governance expertise to help businesses move from AI experimentation to confident, defensible use.
Philip is known for turning complicated positions into something a business can act on, and for answering the question that should have been asked as well as the one that was. He works directly with the people who have to live with the decision, is dependable on what he commits to, and keeps the work good-humoured along the way.
