§Legalese

Team

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" — thought Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 1979

Cofounders

Wong Meng Weng

Wong Meng Weng

Computer Scientist / CEO

Meng is running the ship and the lead language architect, computer scientist, and resident good cop at Legalese. Twenty years ago, while working during the first wave of Internet startups, he created and led the anti-spam standard SPF to worldwide adoption. He's purportedly a lot wiser and more experienced now, so he wants to do the same and bring Legalese's L4 to worldwide adoption. This time, with a revenue model.

Background:

  • BSc Computer Science (U'Penn, '97)

  • Singapore Delegate to MIT's Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program

  • Founder Institute Mentor

  • Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD Business School

  • Fellow at Harvard University Berkman Klein Center ('16 - '17)

  • Fellow at Stanford University CodeX ('17 - '18)

  • Co-founded pobox.com, the first commercial email service

  • Created RFC4408 SPF, the anti-spam email standard

  • Co-founded karmasphere.com, one of the first big data analytics solutions

  • Co-founded Hackerspace.SG and JFDI.Asia (Singapore's first startup accelerator)

Thomas Gorissen

Thomas Gorissen

Software Architect / CTO

Thomas is the conductor of agentic workers that build our products, the AI kind and soon maybe humans, too. For twenty-five years he has been pushing bits across screens with the intent to maximise user enjoyment. A Singapore transplant from Germany he grew up in the JavaScript open-source world and Southeast-Asian startup entrepreneurship. He adopted the world of rules after being uncomfortably confronted with them during his tenures at big enterprise.

Background:

  • Bachelor of Information and Communication Technologies (Fonty's, '07)

  • Founder and Organiser of JSConf.Asia (SEA's largest web developer conference)

  • Built early product for redmart.com

  • Co-creator at The Reserve thereserve.sg

  • JFDI.Asia Mentor

  • Co-founded iSyndica - World's first professional media distribution service ('09)

Michael Fairweather

Michael Fairweather

Lawyer / COO

Michael is an accomplished lawyer and technology consultant that has 20 years’ experience building legal automation systems all over the world. He holds degrees in Law and Computer Science from the University of Western Australia and provided technical consulting services on behalf of Oracle and Accenture before co-founding Monad in 2010. Michael is an expert in Legal Analysis and Legislative Quality Assurance (LQA), and has been a member of the International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) since 2007. He is from Australia and resides in the Philippines.

Background:

  • BSc (IT Systems), LLB, GradDipLegPrac​

  • Founder of Monad Solutions (acquired by Legalese '26)

Alexis Natalie Chun

Alexis Natalie Chun

Lawyer / Advisor

As cofounder and CEO of Legalese, Alexis's job description is very vague. Anything that's not done but ought to have been, is her job. As the recovering lawyer, Alexis also spends her day exorcising legal demons and unlearning her bad habits by sharing her understanding of the end-users, industry, and established conventions and practices (i.e. horror stories) with the engineering and product teams.

Background:

  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) (Second Upper Class with Honours, Queen Mary University of London '11)

  • Cambridge University Long Vacation Scholarship

  • Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore

  • TSMP Law Corporation (Corporate)

  • Rajah & Tann LLP (Commercial Litigation; IP)

  • Secondments: BNP Paribas & JP Morgan

Team

Aswathy Satheesan

Aswathy Satheesan

Legal Engineer

Aswathy is a seasoned professional with over 11 years of experience in designing and implementing complex Oracle Intelligent Advisor (OIA) rules for clients globally. She has a Master’s degree in Computing, IT Law, and Management from King’s College London and holds the Oracle Intelligent Advisor 2021 Certified Implementation Specialist certification. She is well-versed in web-based application development, software development, and data center management. Her diverse background, including experiences living and working in India, Dubai, and London, brings a unique global perspective to her work. She currently resides in Trivandrum, Kerala.