Kjelti Kellough - Visual ContentÂ
Name: Kjelti Kellough
Industry: Visual Content
Job Title and Employer: SVP, General Counsel, Getty Images
Area of Expertise: Legal
Bio: Kjelti Wilkes Kellough is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Getty Images, a world leading visual content company whose brands include Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash with over 435 million photos, videos and illustrations encompassing the latest global news, sports, celebrity, fashion and music coverage, exclusive conceptual creative images and the world's largest commercial archive.
As GC, she sits on the company's executive team and leads a multicultural team of more than 50 employees in Getty Images' legal and real estate and facilities functions. In her role, Kjelti is responsible for overseeing Getty Images' worldwide legal affairs, including acquisitions and transactional work (debt, equity and bond finance transactions), planning and implementing the Company's intellectual property strategy (with a focus on IP rights in AI), commercial and strategic partnerships (including with such leading brands as IOC, FIFA, NBA, Formula 1, Viacom, Dove (project #showus), National Geographic, BBC and NBS News), corporate governance and compliance, governmental relations and litigation.
Based in Calgary, Kjelti has more than 25 years of legal experience and her contributions are an essential part of the Getty Images’ growth and business transformation.
Prior to joining Getty Images in 2009, Kjelti was a corporate finance partner at TingleMerrett and an associate at Blake, Cassels & Graydon, working in both litigation and corporate departments.
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