Keily Blair

Keily Blair (born 1982 or 1983) is a native of Dublin, Ireland,^[2] where she attended a private Catholic school for girls.^[3] Blair began studying law and politics at Oxford Brookes University in 2000.^[3][4] As of 2018, she has been living in London and is the mother of two children.^[1]

Blair is trained as a lawyer and spent early career years in English law firms.^[5] The Legal Cheek Careers Team notes that "[b]y the time Blair started the LPC [Legal Practice Course] at BPP [Law School] in 2004, she’d secured a training contract at... [the] firm Allen & Overy", a "Magic Circle" firm, joining them (by her description) in September 2005.^[6] Blair joined the Morrison & Foerster London office in March 2010 as a senior associate in the litigation group. There, she primarily acted for organisations and C-suite level individuals in connection with contentious and non-contentious regulatory compliance and corruption investigations.^[5][7][8]

In 2015, Blair founded FractioVitri, a network that helps women under-35 progress in the City.^[7]

Blair joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in January 2017 as a Director in the commercial litigation and regulatory disputes team. At PwC she also served as co-lead of their contentious data protection strategy and legal and compliance services.^[9]

In February 2020, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced that Blair would be joining as a Partner to lead their cyber, privacy, and data innovation practice in London.^[5][2][10] OnlyFans was one of her clients.^[4][11] She departed after being recruited by OnlyFans, where she began as chief strategy and operations officer;^[4] Todd Spangler, writing for Variety, describes her initial responsibilities there as leading their "trust and safety operations and [being] responsible for developing, executing and communicating OnlyFans’ strategic initiatives and future goals to users, commercial partners and other key stakeholders."^[5] During this time, she advocated for the Online Safety Bill in the UK.^[2]

In July 2023, Blair was named chief executive officer of OnlyFans, succeeding Amrapali Gan.^[5] In a Financial Times interview, Blair characterised OnlyFans as "an incredible UK tech success story".^[12]

Blair was the recipient of the "Women in the City Future Leaders Award" in 2015.^[6] In 2016, she won Spark21's "Inspirational Women in Law Award", its first recipient.^[6][9]

As of September 2022, Blair lived in London.^[2] As of January 2018, she was described as being a single parent to two.^[6]