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Keily Blair | |
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 Blair at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 | |
| Born | 1982or1983(age 42–43) Dublin, Ireland |
| Education | Oxford Brookes University |
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| Known for | CEO of OnlyFans |
Keily Blair (born 1982 or 1983) is an Irish lawyer and business executive who is the CEO of OnlyFans. [1]
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] Since she became Chief Executive, OnlyFans has more than doubled the number of creator accounts under her tenure to 4.6 million. [13] In October 2025, Blair announced that they had paid $25 billion to creators since 2016. [14]
Blair is an advocate for online safety regulation and, in her role, has argued that digital platforms have a responsibility to implement robust safeguards ahead of legislative requirements. She has also stated that platforms "do not need to wait for legislation" to protect users as technology evolves. [15]
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]
Blair, 39, is a native Dubliner who moved to London for law school and never went back.
...in Dublin, ...Keily attended a private, all girls, Catholic school. ...she travelled to America, staying with an aunt who had studied at Oxford Brookes. Keily was also offered a place through clearing to study Law and Politics [at Oxford Brookes].
Blair was raised in Dublin, Ireland before moving to Oxford in 2000 to obtain her bachelor of arts in law and politics from Oxford Brookes University, per her LinkedIn bio.
Blair, who has a background as a lawyer and business exec, previously led OnlyFans' trust and safety operations and was responsible for developing, executing and communicating OnlyFans' strategic initiatives and future goals to users, commercial partners and other key stakeholders. Prior to joining the company in January 2022, she served as partner – head of cyber, privacy and data innovation at London-based law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Previously she worked at PwC and law firms Morrison & Foerster and Allen & Overy.
An exclusive interview with Keily Blair, the first winner of the Inspirational Women in Law Awards organised by Spark21 in 2016. Keily is Director, Co-Lead of Contentious Data Protection Strategy, Legal and Compliance Services at PwC United Kingdom.Note, this quotation constitutes the only curated textual content at source; all other material is self-reported (video interview), and so requires a timestamp for verifiability.
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