24 | ACC AUSTRALIA Women in the House
KELLIE MORTON CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER ILLION
I am currently the Chief Legal Officer of data and analytics business, illion, based in Melbourne. Prior to that I was a M&A/Private Equity Partner of Johnson Winter & Slattery in Sydney. Saying that, I’ve taken many twists, turns, roundabouts and flights… I grew up on the sunny beaches of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Growing up, I wanted to be a music journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. I studied a double degree in journalism and law at Queensland University of Technology. While at university I wrote for a few free music ‘street’ papers - the kind you picked up at music stores that had gig listings, band interviews and live reviews. But then the internet really exploded, paper publishing started its decline and Rolling Stone no longer featured writing by journalists like Hunter S. Thompson or artists like Kurt Cobain on the cover.
