Caroline Coates

Background

About Caroline Coates

General Counsel at Oxa (previously named Oxbotica). Non Executive Director. Consultant and lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in motorsport, automotive, insurance, manufacturing and public sector. Previously partner, sector lead and head of office at law firm DWF until May 2018. VP Legal - Oxbotica - March 2022 -May 2023 Head of In-House Legal - Oxbotica - March 2021 -22 Consultant - Oxbotica - November 2020- March 2021 (autonomous vehicles) Non Executive Director - BHSF Group Ltd - March 2020 onwards Consultant to W Series Ltd - 2018 -20 (motorsport) Advisory Board member Zenzic (formerly Meridian)- 2018-20 (autonomous vehicles) Director - Birmingham Law Society - May 2018 onwards Non Executive Director - Office for Legal Complaints (Legal Ombudsman) 2015-18 Governor - 2018-22, Ronald McDonald House in Birmingham, a charity providing accommodation (“a home from home”) for families with children in hospital. Partner, Solicitor - 1993-2018 Buller Jeffries and DWF (sector head for automotive and insurance, head of office 2012-18) In March 2014, I received the "Partner of the Year" award at the Birmingham Legal awards. Whilst practising as a lawyer, listed as a "leading individual"in Legal 500 directory and described as "totally professional".