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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Legal space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Joshua Browder
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DoNotPay
Joshua Browder is the Founder and CEO of DoNotPay.
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About DoNotPay: DoNotPay is an online robot lawyer that allows anyone to automatically claim asylum in the U.S, U.K, and Canada for free.
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Jerry Ting
Co-Founder and CEO of Evisort
Jerry Ting is a Co-Founder and CEO at Evisort Inc. He is a former Board Member at Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project and Harvard Association for Law & Business and was an Account Executive at Yelp.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Peter Cameron
CEO of The Lenox Group
Peter Cameron is currently the CEO of Lenox Corporation, an American manufacturer of fine china. Cameron previously served as CEO of Waterford Wedgwood plc, a manufacturer of fine china and crystal products, and from 1997 to 2003 he held the position of CEO and president of All Clad Holdings, a manufacturer of cookware products that was acquired by Waterford during his tenure. He is also currently vice chairman and owner of Acuity Management Inc., an investment management company that owns and operates several commercial real estate investments. From 1988 to 1995 he served in various senior level management capacities within Hanson plc, including chairman of U.S. Industries Housewares Group, and president and CEO of Farberware, Inc. Prior to that, Cameron was CEO and president of Revereware, a leading manufacturer of branded cookware to department store and mass merchant channels. Cameron has also held senior management positions at Polaroid Corp., Bowmar Instrumental Corporation, and Starcraft. He graduated with a B.S. in economics from Northeastern University, and serves on the boards of Northeastern University, Chapel Hill, The International Housewares Charity Foundation, Acuity Management, Farberware Licensing Co., Hartmann and Lenox. He formerly served on the Board of Directors, New York Botanical Garden Association, International Housewares Association, and Bronx Green-up.
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About The Lenox Group: The Lenox Group is a family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs with sound corporate advisory services.
Casey Fenton
CEO of Upstock
Fenton is currently the founder and CEO of Upstock, Inc., a worker equity management as a service online platform. Fenton created the online social hospitality network, the Couchsurfing Project which he began working on in 1999. Couchsurfing currently has over 15 million members worldwide. Fenton served as executive director of Couchsurfing until 2012 and the founding chairman of the board. Since exiting his position as CEO of Couchsurfing, he has also been a part of multiple startups including Sovolve (Wonder App) and Upstock. Fenton has spoken on the subject of trust at TEDxBologna, and on human ego.
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About Couchsurfing, Sovolve, Upstock: Worker equity management as a service, Founder Equity, Performance Based Equity, Saas, Legal Services, Membership
Derek Schueren
CEO & Co-Founder of Akorda
Derek Schueren is the CEO and co-founder of Akorda where he is working to bring the market together to transform how businesses contract. Previously, he founded Recommind, a big data analytics company where he worked with Global 2000 clients, global law firms, and technology partners in the areas of eDiscovery and Information Access. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been named one of the top 100 Global Tech Leaders by Citytech Magazine. He is also an active investor and advisor to various start-ups with a focus on enterprise software and artificial intelligence. Derek holds a BS in Molecular Biology from Brown University and a Masters from University of Oregon.
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About Akorda: Saas, Legal AI, Contact Negotiation & Review, Enterprise Software
John Hall
CEO of Intapp
John Hall is the CEO of Intapp. Since joining the company in 2004, he has built Intapp into a global leader in business applications and services for professional services firms, serving 700 organizations. He is a regular presenter at industry events, covering topics such as technology and law firm innovation, and how innovation can enable client success. Prior to joining Intapp, John co-founded VA Linux Systems and helped lead the company from its start-up phase to its IPO. He is based in Palo Alto, California.
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About Intapp: Intapp is a provider of industry-specific, cloud-based software solutions that enable connected professional and financial services.
Peter Hunn
Founder & CEO of Clause
Peter Hunn is Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Clause, Inc. The Accord Project (now a Linux Foundation project) from Clause, Inc. is the leading organization for the development of techno-legal standards for smart legal contracts and distributed ledger applications in the legal industry. Peter is also an angel investor in early stage startups.
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About Accord Project, Clause, Substrate: Clause is a digital contracting platform connecting agreements to trusted systems, verifying data, and accelerating actions.
Daniel Barber
CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail
Daniel Barber is the CEO & Co-founder of DataGrail. Prior to DataGrail, Daniel built and led go-to-market teams at Responsys (acquired by Oracle), ToutApp (acquired by Marketo), Node.io, Datanyze (ZoomInfo), and DocuSign.
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About DataGrail, Forbes Technology Council, GTM Orchestration: DataGrail is a data privacy startup that helps businesses navigate the growing array of privacy regulations.
Jason Boehmig
CEO of Ironclad
Jason Boehmig is the co-founder and CEO at Ironclad, Inc. (YC S15). He previously worked as a startup attorney at Fenwick & West LLP and an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Inc.
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About Fenwick & West, Ironclad: Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management platform used by companies to handle every type of contract workflow.
Joseph Walla
Co-Founder and CEO of HelloSign
Joseph is the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco based startup HelloSign. The idea behind HelloSign was sparked by Joseph’s first successful product alongside co-founder Neal O’Mara, HelloFax. HelloFax launched in 2011 after attending the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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About HelloFax, HelloSign: HelloSign offers fast, secure, and legally binding eSignatures for businesses.
Dave Hanley
Founder & CEO of Tomorrow Ideas
Dave Hanley is CEO of Tomorrow, which helps families make long-term financial and legal decisions together for the first time, in an easy-to-use app designed to protect their futures. He is an accomplished CEO, digital entrepreneur, and social advocate. Prior to founding Tomorrow, Dave founded Banyan Branch, a leading social media marketing agency, which was acquired by Deloitte Digital. Prior to Banyan Branch, Dave was VP of Marketing at Shelfari, the social network for book readers, which he helped grow to more than 2 million members in 18 months, before it was acquired by Amazon. He also served as Director of Product Management at RealNetworks, where he oversaw the launches of Rhapsody.com and Rhapsody’s Web services program. Earlier in his career, Dave worked in economic development with NGOs and banks in Asia and Latin America that were implementing and assessing microcredit programs, including time as a Fulbright scholar. Dave was selected to the prestigious World Economic Forum Young Global Leader program, where he is an active participant and advisor. Dave is an adoring husband, loving father of four children, adventure traveler, and spirituality seeker. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in public policy from Brigham Young University.
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About Tomorrow Ideas: Tomorrow Ideas develops an application that helps in protecting family’s financial future.
Chocko Valliappa
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Vee Technologies
Chocko Valliappa comes from a family of entrepreneurs, pioneering India’s growth in textiles, agriculture, plantations and more. Recognizing the importance of new technology, he founded the Valliappa Software Tech Park launching Oracle, CISCO and VeriFone in 1995.
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About HireMee, SonaYukti, Vee Create, Vee FnA, Vee Protect, Vee Technologies, Vee Track: Vee Technologies is a transaction services company delivering total back-office processing solutions.
Tom Gores
Founder and CEO of Platinum Equity
Tom Gores founded Platinum Equity in 1995 and his guidance, core philosophies, and strong principles drive the strategic development and direction of both the firm and its portfolio.Early in his career, Tom Gores was an active investor in smaller businesses, where companies often trade principally on their good word and ability to follow through on what they promise. Here he developed his principles of empowerment, hard work, and integrity. As Tom Gores delivered on commitments made to deal partners, investment bankers, and lenders, Tom Gores’s ability to continually execute larger transactions grew exponentially and made Platinum Equity one of the premiere private equity firms in the world, recognized as one of Forbes’s “Largest Private Companies” within just 4 years of being founded. Believing that a team of outstanding people could meet almost any challenge,Tom Gores began selecting the best and brightest he came in contact with to join him. The result is the Partners and Principals who lead Platinum Equity today. Strong relationships, trust in people, and open communication remain key to Tom Gores and Platinum Equity’s momentum. When it comes to his business, Tom Gores applies philosophies of swift and thorough diligence, sound acquisitions, effective management, and driving value through honest, intelligent operational improvement rather than financial engineering. M&A&O®, his pioneering vision of combining traditional M&A with operational insight, was the direct result of the combination of these philosophies. Top business publications have recognized Platinum Equity as one of the most important private companies in America, most recently ranking 25th on the 2013 Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies and #5 on the 2013 Los Angeles Business Journal list of LA’s Largest Private Equity Companies. Mr. Gores appears on both the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires as well as the Forbes list of Richest Americans, and is among the youngest individuals ever to appear on either. Tom Gores was born in 1964 and resides primarily in Beverly Hills with his wife and children. When not serving in his role as Chairman and CEO of Platinum Equity, Tom Gores is on either a soccer field or a basketball court coaching youth teams, applying the same principles of hard work and inspiration that Tom Gores does to his business. Tom Gores also maintains active interests in the arts, serving on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees and pursuing interests in music. Tom Gores holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University.
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About Platinum Equity, York Ventures: Platinum Equity is a private equity investment firm that focuses on leveraged buyout investments of established companies.
Jason Furtado
Founder & CEO of Shoobx
Jason founded Shoobx with a simple principle: empower the entrepreneur. His mission is to change the way companies engage—speeding up historically time-consuming and costly processes, reducing risk, and fostering transparency. Previously, Jason was product manager at Endeca where his prototype turned into a line of business which he drove from inception to $25M in revenue prior to Endeca’s acquisition by Oracle for a reported $1.1 billion in 2011. Jason holds BS and M. Eng. degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
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About Shoobx: Shoobx is a comprehensive platform designed to manage startup corporate legal activity from incorporation to exit.
Peter Bauer
Co Founder & CEO of Mimecast
Peter Bauer founded Mimecast in 2003 with CTO, Neil Murray. With the support of angel investors, loyal customers and a strong management team, Peter has overseen eight consecutive years of continual growth. He relocated to Boston in August 2011 to help drive the expansion of Mimecast’s US business, and was instrumental in securing $62m of Series C funding from global private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners in September 2012. Peter’s career began in South Africa, where, after studying marketing and founding a successful distribution company, he trained as a Microsoft systems engineer and began working with corporate messaging systems. He founded his first technology company, FAB Technology, in the mid-nineties. A leading integrator of new internet and messaging technologies, the business grew rapidly and was acquired in 1998 by Idion, a JSE-listed technology business. Peter became Idion Managing Director, a role he stayed in until, observing trends in internet business services, he decided to move to the UK.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Nicole Shanahan
Chief Executive Officer of ClearAccessIP
Nicole Shanahan is an attorney in California and a research fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center of Legal Informatics, a joint center between Stanford Law School and Computer Science. She is the founder and CEO of ClearAccessIP an integrated patent management technology, and a legal technologist who specializes in the utilization of structured databases, APIs, UI/UX, automation and SaaS. Her research at Stanford is entitled “Smart Prosecution,” an ongoing, multi-disciplinary project applying data science to the prosecutorial process and involving partnerships with district attorneys and police departments. Apart from the practical applications of legal technology, she is formulating an economic theory, entitled “Coasean Mapping” to predict the pace and nature of society’s adoption of legal artificial intelligence.
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About ClearAccessIP: ClearAccessIP develops IP management solution that supports critical decision making around patenting and technology transfer.
Kiwi Camara
CEO of DISCO
Founder and CEO at DISCO
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About DISCO: DISCO is a legaltech company that applies AI and cloud computing to legal problems to help lawyers and legal teams improve legal outcomes.
Deanna Oppenheimer
Founder and CEO of Cameo Works
Deanna is the founder and CEO of CameoWorks. Recognized globally as one of the most influential leaders in financial services, she’s a turnaround strategist known for her ability to transform entrenched institutions into forward thinking, customer-centric champions. Previously, Deanna worked at Barclays, starting as chief executive of the UK business before becoming Vice Chair, Global Retail Banking, sharing best practices across Europe and Africa. Her final role was CEO of UK and Western Europe Retail Banking. In 2010, she added the role of chief executive of Europe Retail and Business Banking. From 1985-2005, she served in a number of positions at Washington Mutual, Inc., with her last role as president of Consumer Banking, where she helped to transform the lender from a regional to national player.
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About Bain & Company, Cameo Works, Thomson Reuters, West Monroe Partners: CameoWorks is a consumer-focused boutique advisory firm comprised solely of global executive and non-executive leaders.
Massoud Aaron Yashouafar
CEO of Milbank
Massoud Aaron Yashouafar is a real estate specialist with over 30 years of industry experience. After immigrating to the United States in the late 1970’s, Aaron began working with the family business, Milbank Real Estate Services, part time. He attended California State University, Northridge, receiving a bachelors in Business Administration with a focus on Accounting. He currently serves as the company CEO and continues to point his efforts towards the proper development and prosperity of the Milbank Real Estate Group.
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About Milbank: A leading international law firm
Frank Selldorff
Founder & CEO of Acorio
Frank Selldorff is CEO and founder of Meteorix. An accomplished veteran of the IT consulting industry, with a sharp focus on innovation, Frank founded Meteorix in January of 2011 because he believes Workday’s technology is revolutionary and that the opportunity exists to change the way services are delivered. A true entrepreneurial leader, adept building high performing teams, Frank drives the company’s unwavering commitment to both customer and employee success. In addition to his role at Meteorix, Frank is also founder and Chairman of Momentum Equity Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies with the potential to become industry leaders in the information technology sector. Prior to Momentum, Frank was founder and co-CEO of Reach Internet Incubator, whose portfolio of companies includes success stories BrandMuscle, BlackSmith Applications, BrainShark and netNumina (later acquired by Keane). In 1992, Frank founded Breakaway Solutions, a full-service Internet provider, and served as its chairman, president and CEO through 1998. Under his direction, the company was recognized as one of the nation’s fastest-growing technology companies, ranking No. 73 on the 1998 Inc. 500 and on Deloitte and Touche’s Fast 50/500 from 1996-1998.
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About Acorio, Meteorix: Acorio helps customers to maximize the return on their investment in ServiceNow.
Itai Hirsch
Co-Founder & CEO of Themis-Tech
Repeat tech founder, sometimes investor in early-stage concepts. Experienced in turning big pain points into digital products that help everyday people.
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About Themis-Tech: Themis-Tech develops technology that enables legal care for everyday people.
Stephen Roulac
CEO of Roulac Global Places
Stephen E. Roulac, Ph.D., is a consultant, economist, scholar, writer, and futurist. Since 1972, he has headed Roulac Global, a firm that provides advisory and litigation consulting services on significant decisions of businesses, primarily concerning real estate involvements. Stephen Roulac’s background reflects decades of study, leading academic credentials and includes year of experience, deep research and data mining and building and leading several businesses. Through his work, he has made fundamental and innovative research contributions and pioneered applications of economic analysis and management methods to real estate. As an informative professional speaker, Dr. Roulac has made presentations and speeches to hundreds of organizations and has been the keynote speaker or featured instructor at significant professional forums throughout the country and abroad. Among others, Dr. Roulac’s clients have included Apple, Bank of America, California Public Employees’ Retirement System, City of Los Angeles, Hallmark Corporation, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and the U.S. Department of Labor. Dr. Roulac is an active author of real estate and business topics and has written hundreds of articles and authored or edited over a dozen books. He has written the “Property Strategy” column for Forbes, wrote the overview cover essay for Real Estate Capital Markets Report, and a column on strategic issues in pension investing for The Institutional Real Estate Letter. His “Modern Real Estate Investment: An Institutional Approach,” has been recognized as an authoritative treatise on real estate investment practice. Dr. Roulac has served as adjunct professor at Texas A & M University, Texas Real Estate Research Center, and as a lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, UCLA. He served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business for ten years, and concurrently held a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, and the Schools of Business Administration at UC, Berkeley. He was also an adjunct professor at Hastings College of Law. Dr. Roulac received his Ph.D. in Finance and Strategic Management from Stanford University, his M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard University, his JD from University of California, Berkeley, and his BA in Economics from Pomona College.
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About Roulac Global Places: RGP is a strategy, financial economics, and transactional consulting firm that advises senior management and investors.
Raad Ahmed
Founder and CEO of LawTrades
Raad Ahmed Born in New York City and spent most of my adolescent years in Long Island. At a young age He discovered that he loved music and all things creative. I am naturally an imaginative person -– produce videos, learned guitar and started a website in law school. Currently, I am the Founder/CEO at LawTrades. Our mission to improve access to legal services through really disruptive technology.
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About LawTrades: LawTrades is an online message-based platform that allows anyone to seamlessly find, hire, and work with lawyers.
Jeffrey B. Hecktman
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hilco Global
Hecktman founded Hilco in 1987 to conduct business asset liquidations. Today, under his leadership, Hilco Global is considered a world class company – having earned this reputation after decades of providing both healthy and distressed companies with strategic solutions and advice to maximize value of their business assets. Hecktman is credited for having built the company from a small start-up to a sophisticated global financial services firm with over 600 employees and 11 offices worldwide. Over the course of his career, Hecktman has structured and directed thousands of transactions valued in the billions of dollars. Jeffrey remains an active member of the National Retail Federation, the Commercial Finance Association, the Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Hecktman is deeply committed to philanthropy and ardently supports humanitarian and faith-based causes. He’s been a benefactor for a major music therapy program and a stem cell research program at the University of Chicago Medical Center and at the United States Holocaust Museum. He is also a passionate supporter of educational opportunities for underserved communities in the United States and around the world. To this end, he has donated his time and financial support to several important educational programs for the children of Illinois and around the world, including the Youth Guidance mentoring programs that work with over 6000 inner city high school age boys and girls; The All Stars Arts and Education Program in Chicago; major disaster relief efforts in Haiti that provide recovery tools and books for children; and the Yemin Orde Youth Village in Israel, which provides support to at-risk and immigrant youth from around the world. Jeffrey received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Arizona in 1975. He also completed a course of study in international business through George Washington University, attending the Nyenrode Business Universiteit, in the Netherlands.
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About Hilco Global: Hilco Global is an international financial services company.
Kent Collier
Founder & CEO of Reorg
Founder & CEO at Reorg.
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About Reorg: Reorg is a provider of news, commentary, and analytics on the distressed debt market.
Erik Litmanovich
CEO, Board of Directors of Power Liens
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About Power Liens: Power Liens is the largest directory of physicians working on liens.
Bobby Balachandran
President and CEO of Exterro
Bobby Balachandran is the founder, president and CEO of Exterro, Inc. After an extensive career building mission-critical applications in the financial services, healthcare and telecommunications sectors, Bobby founded Exterro with the conviction that the legal industry was rife with opportunities for process improvements that could be driven from lessons learned in other industries. Today, Bobby fulfills Exterro’s founding principles by leading the company in building a comprehensive platform for global corporations to mitigate risks, control costs, and have complete end to end visibility into their legal processes. Bobby holds a BS in computer science from Government College of Technology in Coimbatore, India, and an MS in computer science from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
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About Exterro: Exterro is a company that creates work flow driven software.
Scott Hardy
Founder, President & CEO of Top Class Actions
Scott Hardy formed Top Class Actions in 2008 because he saw a need to fill the void in the endless search for class action lawsuit news on the Internet. The average consumer will find countless trash sites, place holders and confusing legal websites when searching for class action lawsuits and class action lawsuit settlements. Once you stumble upon a website dedicated to such information, the navigation can be tedious at best or completely bewildering at worst. Top Class Actions fixed that and continues to report on the latest class action news as it breaks. Scott continues to transform the world of class action lawsuit settlement notification and class action lawsuit advertising by implementing new and innovative ways to connect consumers to class action settlements and attorneys who can provide the legal help they need.
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About Top Class Actions: Top Class Actions connects consumers to lawsuits, settlements and attorneys.
Michael Dering
CEO & Founding Partner of Dering & Estrada
Mr. Dering has over 25 years experience in successfully managing and growing technology firms. Mr. Dering specializes in supporting both the executive management team and the board of emerging growth companies. Mr. Dering often provides both CEO mentoring services as well as help with a company’s growth and strategic direction. Mr. Dering is an active board member and consultant for a number of very successful high tech companies in the greater mid-Atlantic region. Prior to forming D&E, Mr. Dering was President and CEO of ServiceBench. ServiceBench experienced rapid growth by developing innovative “Service Management On-Demand” solutions, attracting prestigious new customers and expanding internationally. As a result, ServiceBench was recognized by Deloitte as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. ServiceBench was sold to NEW in January 2008. Prior to ServiceBench, Mr. Dering served as President and CEO of CrossAccess Corporation, a multi-national venture-funded software infrastructure company that focused on integrating corporate business functions with new e-business applications. Prior to joining CrossAccess, Mr. Dering served as President and CEO of two publicly traded Bell & Howell companies. Under Mr. Dering’s leadership, Bell & Howell Mail and Messaging Technologies (MMT) doubled its profits and grew its revenue to $500 million while cultivating a broad customer base that included telecommunications carriers. At Bell & Howell Publishing Services (PSC), Mr. Dering launched its European operation and implemented a focused sales program that resulted in increased market share. Previously, Mr. Dering had a 20-year career at TAB Products Company, a $170 million publicly traded manufacturer of information storage and retrieval solutions for office environments. He initially served in a variety of sales and marketing positions, and, in his last five years, was TAB’s President and CEO, helping turn around the company and making it the dominant industry leader. Mr. Dering holds multiple board positions including 3PillarGlobal, Valencell, HelloWallet, Fishbowl, Bridgeborn, Washington Management Group/CCS, StrikeIron, The Royalty Exchange and MindShare. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
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About Dering & Estrada, eTrans Systems, Valencell: Dering & Estrada is a consulting firm providing project management, software development, and other services to businesses.
Sandra Mau
Founder and CEO of TrademarkVision
Sandra is the CEO and Founder of TrademarkVision, a disruptive startup doing visual brand protection. TrademarkVision is the world’s best visual search engine for trademarks and logos based on proprietary image recognition technology. TrademarkVision services are trusted globally by governments and trademark attorneys alike. Sandra also sits on INTA’s Design Rights Committee as an industry leader and advisor. She has over 9 years experience and leadership in productizing research and development. Prior to this startup, Sandra was a Senior Computer Vision Research Engineer at NICTA doing R&D in computer vision, machine learning, and mobile projects. Additionally, she consulted for the government on the areas of advancing technologies. She has also worked professionally as a Commercialisation Analyst in technology transfer where she helped researchers protect their IP and commercialize their innovation. Sandra is very active in supporting the local tech community. She was the Founding Chair of IEEE QLD Women in Engineering, a speaker at several Women in Leadership forums, and listed as one of Australia’s Top 50 Female Programmers by Pollenizer 2014, and one of Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Engineers by Engineer’s Australia 2015 (http://engineerstop100.realviewtechnologies.com/). She’s also a regular participant in hackathons including past GovHacks and International Women’s Day. She holds a Masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, a Bachelors in Engineering Science (Aerospace) from University of Toronto, and an MBA from QUT.
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About Clarivate Analytics, TrademarkVision: TrademarkVision offers machine learning and image recognition technology used to visually search image trademarks.
Reuven Moskowitz
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Litify
Reuven Moskowitz is the Founder of Litify.
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About Litify: Litify provides technology solutions for law firms by providing a trusted intelligent platform for practice management.
Rasty Turek
Founder & CEO of Pex
Rasty Turek is the founder and CEO of Pex
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About Pex: Pex is a digital rights technology company.
Teresa Creech
Chief Executive Officer of ICon
Teresa Creech is the CEO at TalentWave.
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About ICon, TalentWave: A leading provider of independent contractor compliance and workforce management solutions.
Ed Walters
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fastcase
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About Cornell Tech, Fastcase, Georgetown Law School: Fastcase is the smarter alternative for legal research – using data visualization, citation analysis, and mobile apps to beautify the law.
Darby Wong
Co-Founder & CEO of Clerky
Darby Wong is a Co-Founder & CEO of Clerky.
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About Clerky: Clerky makes it easy for startups and their attorneys to get legal paperwork done safely.
Bryce Johnson
Founder/CEO of Lone Star Ventures, LLC
Bryce Johnson is the founder and CEO of Lone Star Ventures, LLC, an investment and advisory firm. Prior to forming LSV, Bryce was Managing Director and Investment Committee member of Dragon Global Management, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in late-stage technology and Internet investments. Prior to joining Dragon Global, Bryce spent nearly twelve years working with Michael Ovitz and his affiliated entities, where he led a team investing in early-stage Internet and technology companies, oversaw operations of entertainment and media holdings from talent management to film and television production and co-managed consulting relationships with private equity firms and hedge funds and various LBO opportunities in the media space. During his time there, Bryce helped realize numerous successful investment exits, including Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ), Applied Semantics (sold to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) April 2003) and Fig Card (sold to eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) May 2011). Prior to that, Bryce served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked in systems administration and digital postproduction at Cinesite, a Kodak subsidiary. He graduated with a B.S. from MIT in 1990, was awarded a research fellowship in architectural design at Tokyo University in Japan, and attended UCLA’s JD/MBA program where he graduated third in his class from the School of Law and was Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Law Review.
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About Lone Star Ventures, LLC: Venture capital and advisory services
Matthew Sedigh
CEO & Founder of XCLAIM
Matt Sedigh has more than 15 years of experience in distressed legal, trading, advisory, and interim management roles. He has advised distressed businesses, debtors, creditors, and parties to transactions conducted in and out of court. He has extensive in-court experience overseeing all aspects of the Chapter 11 process as a Chief Restructuring Officer to companies in various industries. Mr. Sedigh has also provided expert testimony on behalf of his clients on a broad range of bankruptcy issues.
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About XCLAIM: XCLAIM is digitizing the financial market for selling bad debt receivables.
Liat Oren
CEO & Co-Founder of AI Patents
Liat Oren is CEO & Co-Founder @ AI Patents.
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About AI Patents: AI Patents has developed a conceptual patent search engine that allows users to efficiently retrieve highly relevant patent information.
Konstantinos Ligris
Chief Executive Officer of Stavvy
Kosta Ligris is an experienced entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of the Ligris family of companies, a collection of professional services, real estate, consulting, and tech companies. Under his leadership, the Ligris companies have grown to become one of the largest residential conveyancing and transactional firms in Massachusetts. Along with its affiliated title agencies – the Ligris companies have overseen over $30 billion of real estate matters in the last decade, consistently placing them as the top agents for the country’s largest title insurance underwriters in New England. Kosta is Cofounder of Stavvy and EscrowMint – products at the intersection of FinTech and PropTech. Kosta is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York and the United States Federal Court for the First District. He has been recognized as a real estate “Super Lawyer” for seven consecutive years (2012-2018). Kosta has represented and performed consulting services for some of the nation’s largest banks and real estate companies and has developed real estate in the Greater Boston markets for over a decade. Kosta develops systems, protocols and technology to create greater efficiency, security, compliance, and oversight in the real estate and title/settlement industry. Kosta also advises real estate companies in all verticals of real estate in innovation, strategy, technology, legal, compliance and other matters. He also mentors, advises, and invests in startups in fintech, “real-estate tech”, and blockchain – disrupting the real estate and title insurance verticals. Kosta has been a mentor at MIT’s Leadership Center and has researched corporate engagement with MIT’s Innovation Initiative based in Kendall Square. Kosta mentors executive MBA students at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. He is passionate and has written about culture in the workplace and using tools to mitigate anxiety and stress for busy executives and professionals. When he is not practicing his amateur photography skills, he is an active philanthropist, serving various boards benefiting the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Beth Israel Lahey Health, to name a couple. Kosta holds a B.S. in Physiology and Chemistry from Boston University, a J.D. with honors from Suffolk University Law School (where he serves on the Dean’s Cabinet and as a Univeristy Trustee), and an M.B.A. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stavvy: Stavvy is a modern lending platform designed to connect lenders with their title, settlement, and appraisal vendors.
Troy Pospisil
Founder, CEO of Ontra
Troy Pospisil is a Founder and Chief Executive Officer at InCloudCounsel. Prior to IncloudCounsel, He was an Investment Professional at H.I.G. Capital and Management Consultant at Deloitte. Mr. Pospisil received a bachelor’s degree in Economics at New York University.
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About Ontra: Ontra is a provider of technology and services for contract automation and intelligence.
Roope Marttila
Co-founder & CEO of Herculex.ai
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About Herculex.ai: Herculex.ai is a provider of legal artificial intelligence services.
Apoorv Agarwal
Co-founder & CEO of Text IQ
An expert in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Apoorv is dedicated to understanding and improving how humans and machines benefit from working together. In 2014, he was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program, which allowed him to lay the foundation for Text IQ.Prior to Text IQ, Apoorv received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award in recognition of his work as first author on two separate patents for IBM’s Watson. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and received the Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance in teaching. Apoorv has published more than 30 academic papers in ML and NLP. His work, which focuses on sentiment analysis, relation extraction, text summarization, and automated Q&A, has received more than 1000 citations across the international research community. Beyond academia, Apoorv has been cited by American Banker, WIRED, Popular Science, New Scientist, and Science Magazine, among others. With Text IQ, he aspires to harness and channel the complementary strengths of humans and machines towards solving high-stakes enterprise data problems.
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About Text IQ: Text IQ is a B2B SaaS company deploying AI to uncover and contextualize sensitive data across privacy, security, legal, and compliance.
Mike Walsh
CEO, Legal & Professional of LexisNexis
Mike Walsh is CEO of the global legal business of LexisNexis, a leading provider of information solutions to law firm, corporate, government and academic markets. The business serves customers in over 175 countries and employs ~10,000 worldwide. Prior to his current role, Mr. Walsh was CEO of LexisNexis U.S. Legal Markets. He led the transformation of the business from a provider of legal research to a solutions partner. Mr. Walsh joined LexisNexis in 2003 as Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Business Development where he helped oversee significant expansion into the LexisNexis Risk Management sector. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Mr. Walsh was Director of Strategic Business Development at Home Depot. Earlier in his career, he practiced law at Weil, Gotshal and Manges, worked on large transactions at General Electric and was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He also co-founded Infirmation.com, an online portal, and sold that business to what is now Thomson Reuters. Mr. Walsh earned his JD from Harvard Law School and received his BA from Yale University. He sits on the Board of the Atlantic Council. He grew up in Colorado and now resides in New York with his wife and two children.
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About LexisNexis: LexisNexis offers content-enabled workflow solutions in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, accounting, and academic markets.
Eliam Medina
CEO of Willing
Eliam Medina is the CEO at Willing.
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About MetLife, Willing: Willing is the best way to make your legal will.
Alin Bui
Founding CEO of Anduin
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About Anduin: The workflow platform built for private market transactions
Rob McDermott
CEO of CopsForHire
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About CopsForHire: CopsForHire provides off-duty law enforcement professionals for businesses or events.
Noah Waisberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Kira Systems
Prior to founding Kira, Noah was an associate at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York, where he focused on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. in Political Science from Brown University (where he completed the coursework and comprehensive examinations for a Ph.D), and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.
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About Kira Systems, Zuva: Kira Systems is a machine learning software that identifies, extracts, and analyzes text in contracts and other documents.
Ken Kalb
CEO and co-founder of StoryCloud, Inc
Ken Kalb has a long history of starting and leading successful technology companies. Before co-founding StoryCloud, Ken was the founding CEO of Analog Analytics in 2007, a leading provider of accountable advertising solutions for online and offline publishers. Ken led the intellectual property effort and received two US patents for a system and method for real-time management of off-line advertising campaigns. In May of 2012, Ken sold the company to Barclaycard and returned a double digit multiple to shareholders. Previous to co-founding Analog Analytics with Tom Buscher, Ken was CEO of SearchRev, a paid search optimization company. From May 2006 through August of 2007, Ken led a 500% increase in revenue resulting in the company’s sale to AKQA / General Atlantic in September of 2007 for a 6X return on shareholder value. In 1998 Ken was the founding CEO of Continuous Computing, based in San Diego, California. While there, Ken led the company to $72mm in revenue, raised $52mm in capital and completed two acquisitions off of the company’s balance sheet. He had development teams in India, China and the US with 450 employees and won multiple awards. Ken won the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2005. Under his leadership, Deloitte & Touche recognized Continuous Computing on six separate occasions for its rapid growth rate. Notably, Continuous Computing won the San Diego Fast 50 award for being the fastest growing company with a 28,357% increase over a five-year period. The company was sold to Radisys in 2012. Previous to Continuous Computing, Ken was president of Emultek, an Israeli simulation tool company, where he doubled revenues and led a successful IPO. Ken has attended American University and New York University Graduate Film School.
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About StoryCloud, Inc: StoryCloud is the leading provider of low cost deposition reporting and legal video services.
Yousef Kassim
Founder and CEO of EasyExpunctions
Yousef Kassim is the Founder and CEO of EasyExpunctions, the only software-driven services company that specializes in automating legal documents for personal reputation management. EasyExpunctions was founded in Austin in 2014 shortly after Kassim filed a patent for a new method of document automation that is currently being utilized by the company. Kassim is a graduate of Trinity University and St. Mary’s University School of Law, and is also licensed to practice law in Texas. Kassim recently moved his startup from Austin to its new headquarters in downtown San Antonio in response to incentives from local government and technology industry leaders interested in advancing job creation in San Antonio’s growing Tech District.
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About EasyExpunctions: EasyExpunctions easily expunge your criminal record for less than a third of the cost of a lawyer.
Manoj Pillai
Founder and CEO of Clairvolex
Manoj is an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and IP policy expert, as well as a patent specialist. His focus on the intersection of patents and AI technologies underpins the vision that makes Clairvolex one of the most innovative players in the global IP space. A frequent commentator and writer on IPR related topics, Manoj also founded LexOrbis IP, India’s top patent firm, in 1998.
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About Clairvolex: Clairvolex is an IP solutions company that manages IP assets of large corporations using an IPAM model.
Ian Wilson
Founder and CEO of Servient
Founder & CEO at Servient.
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About Servient: Servient is a full enterprise eDiscovery solution.
Nicole Clark
Founder and CEO of Trellis Research
Nicole Clark is the Co-Founder and CEO at Trellis Research Inc. She was an Associate at Newmeyer & Dillion and Associate Attorney at Andrews Lagasse Branch + Bell LLP. Ms. Clark received a bachelor of arts in Journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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About Trellis Research: Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
Rakesh Madhava
Founder & CEO of Nextpoint
Rakesh Madhava is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NextPoint Inc., where he leads a unique team of computer scientists, litigation support professionals, and communication experts. He has 15 years of experience in legal technology and trial support with specific experience in white-collar criminal defense, breach of contract, intellectual property, shareholder suits, tortious interference suits, and product liability. Madhava is a frequent speaker on the topics of cloud computing and new technologies in electronic data management and is an avid participant in legal technology industry events. In 2005, he received a special proclamation for his work within the 7th Circuit Bar Association and is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants, American Institute of Graphic Arts, and TiE, a network of professionals that fosters entrepreneurship.
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About Nextpoint: Nextpoint develops regulatory, compliance, and litigation software applications.
Raj Goyle
CEO & Co-Founder of Bodhala
Raj Goyle is CEO and Co-founder of Bodhala, a leading legal technology company based in New York City and Ann Arbor focused on data analytics and legal procurement. Co-founded with a fellow Harvard Law graduate, Bodhala helps large and small in-house legal departments, saving companies significant time and money through the creation of a competitive, transparent legal marketplace. Goyle, who received his undergraduate degree from Duke University, served two terms in the Kansas House of Representatives after working as a policy analyst and civil rights attorney. He serves on the boards of Hunger Free America, the American India Foundation, Everyartist.me, Issue One and chairs the State Innovation Exchange. Goyle lives in New York with his wife Monica Arora, a partner at Proskauer. They have two daughters.
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About Bodhala: Bodhala is a SaaS platform that empowers in-house legal teams to better analyze, interpret and optimize outside counsel spending.
Sri Vasireddy
Co-Founder & CEO of REAN Cloud
Sri is responsible for driving the REAN Cloud Solutions roadmap along with the Consulting Practice. Sri Vasireddy is a leader in cloud computing security, solution architecture, and investment management. He has advised several government agencies and commercial organizations about their cloud computing strategies involving cloud migration, optimization, security, and compliance. During his career at the MITRE corporation, he was recognized as an expert in cloud computing and was put on strategic cloud computing initiatives in the federal government, including: Technical Lead advising GSA in developing the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA); Chief Engineer for Net Centric Enterprise Services, a Department of Defense web services initiative; Principal Architect for developing a cloud computing strategy for the US Courts Administrative Office; and Principal Architect for data center virtualization and wide area network modernization for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Mr. Vasireddy’s early involvement with federal cloud computing initiatives led him to be the first solutions and security architect on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) worldwide public sector team. Mr. Vasireddy started a new venture to provide a delivery model for cloud-based solutions that democratizes access to computing and accelerates innovation. Since leaving AWS, he has worked closely with financial services and public sector customers such as Medicaid and CHIP Payment Access Commission (MACPAC.gov) to secure their AWS environments. Mr. Vasireddy holds a Master’s in Computer Science from George Mason University and an MBA from Duke University. Mr. Vasireddy plans to provide a delivery model for cloud based solutions that democratizes access to computing and accelerates innovation through his new venture. He is also the Founding Director of a non-profit, Asha-Jyothi, which provides education for underprivileged kids in India.
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About REAN Cloud, REAN Foundation: REAN Cloud brings together a unique set of skills and expertise in cloud computing.
Scott Johnson
Chief Executive Officer of AbacusNext
In the past 5 years Scott orchestrated two consecutive, greatly successful exits as CEO for Private Equity(Frontier Capital) backed SAAS companies. Scott’s first exit was selling Social Solutions to Vista Equity. After the sale Scott continued as CEO completing a major acquisition and running the Vista playbook. Scott was able to exponentially improve his CEO skills in running SAAS companies as he spent 18 months under the guidance and tutelage of an amazing team at Vista Equity. In June 2016, Scott was given the opportunity to lead another Frontier Capital backed company, Zephyr. Scott and his team were able to complete the investment thesis in record time leading to another greatly successful exit in a little over two years. Zephyr was acquired by Smartbear, Francisco Partner portfolio company, in Sept. 2018. After a smooth transition, Scott began working as Senior Advisor for Providence Equity Partners. Scott and his family have a mission to transform lives and make a positive impact in the world. They have 9 children, 6 adopted from Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria. Scott established Jehovah-Jireh, an NPO that has opened its first orphanage in 2014 QwaQwa, South Africa and in 2016 opened a bible college in Rajpur, India. Scott, his wife Michelle, and their children live outside Philadelphia. PA.
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About AbacusNext: AbacusNext is a technology-as-a-service provider for the professional services industry.
Dev Shrotri
Founder & CEO of CloudLex
Dev’s expertise is in the fields of cutting-edge technology, management, business process engineering, and civil litigation operations. Before CloudLex®, Dev founded and managed Lexvia Inc., one of the most extensive civil litigation support services in the U.S., providing information management services, remote paralegal support services, and comprehensive case management services to plaintiff law firms across the nation. An engineer by training, Dev has previously worked as a Consultant with Ernst & Young in New York City, where he helped his clients in the Telecom, Media and Networks sector. Additionally, Dev has worked as a Software Consultant at Sprint Communications in Kansas City, where he helped develop and implement the Local Number Portability System (LNP). Dev’s graduate research focused on Multi-Agent Based Intelligent Software Systems and included projects with EPA and DARPA. Amongst his many publications, one of the most notable is his book chapter on Agent-Based Systems: Distributed Coordination of an Agent Society Based on Obligations and Commitments to Negotiated Agreements, which was published by Carnegie Mellon, Springer Verlag, U.S. Dev holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York, an MS in Computer Science & Engineering from University of South Carolina, Columbia, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College, India.
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About CloudLex: The next-gen Legal Cloud® to run your entire personal injury practice
Xiao Wang
Co-Founder & CEO of Boundless
Xiao Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Boundless, helping families navigate the complex legal immigration system more confidently, rapidly, and affordably than ever before. Prior to Boundless, he held leadership roles at Amazon Go, Providence Equity, NYC Department of Education, and McKinsey. Xiao holds a BA/MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Boundless: Boundless provides immigrants with the tools, information, and personalized support to navigate their immigration journey.
Dan Rubins
Co-Founder & CEO of Legal Robot
Co-founder & CEO of Legal Robot
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About Legal Robot: Legal Robot uses machine learning techniques like deep learning to understand legal language.
Thomas Allen
Co-Founder & CEO of AgileLaw
Thomas Allen is the Co-Founder & CEO at AgileLaw.
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About AgileLaw, Wikidocs: AgileLaw provides cloud-based mobile solutions enabling lawyers to have paperless depositions.
Thomas Allen
Co-Founder & CEO of AgileLaw
Thomas Allen is the Co-Founder & CEO at AgileLaw.
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About AgileLaw, Wikidocs: AgileLaw provides cloud-based mobile solutions enabling lawyers to have paperless depositions.
Charley Moore
Founder & CEO of Rocket Lawyer
Charley has been at the forefront of Internet corporate development since beginning of his career as an attorney at Venture Law Group in Menlo Park, California in 1996. While practicing at Venture Law Group, he participated in the early stage representation of Yahoo! (IPO), WebTV Networks (acquired by Microsoft) and Cerent Corporation (acquired by Cisco Systems) and was the founder of Onstation Corporation (acquired by The Cobalt Group). Prior to starting Rocket Lawyer, Charley practiced business law, representing technology companies and their investors. He represented Yahoo! (as a start-up), WebTV Networks (acquired by Microsoft), and helped established companies partner with innovators and start ups. I love to help new businesses get off the ground and fly.
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About Rocket Lawyer: Rocket Lawyer provides online legal services to help users meet the legal needs of their families and business.
Josh Eastright
Chief Executive Officer of Bloomberg Law
Josh Eastright is a Chief Executive Officer at Bloomberg BNA. He is a former Commercial Director, Head of Government Affairs Solutions, and President of Bloomberg Government. Mr. Eastright graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor of arts in Political Science.
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About Bloomberg Law: Bloomberg Law is an information service company for legal, regulatory, and business information for professionals.
Mark Vorsatz
Managing Director and CEO of Andersen Tax
Mark Vorsatz is Managing Director and CEO of Andersen Tax. He Co-Founded the firm under the name WTAS in 2002 and spearheaded the firm’s name change, effective September 2, 2014. Mark works exclusively with individuals in the design and implementation of customized income tax and estate planning solutions. His client base is limited to founders and/or substantial shareholders of public companies, owners of closely held businesses, and high net worth family groups. He focuses on preserving wealth for multi-generational families. Mark has over 35 years of experience in tax practice. Before joining Andersen Tax, he was a Partner at Arthur Andersen from 1987 to 2002. Mark served on the firmwide Family Wealth Planning Team from 1982 to 2002 and led the firm’s Private Client Service Group in San Francisco. He also served as Managing Partner and Tax Division Head of Arthur Andersen’s San Jose office from 1990 to 1994.
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About Andersen Tax: Andersen Tax provides a range of tax, valuation, financial advisory, and related consulting services to individual and commercial clients.
Brett Slavicek
Founder & CEO of The Slavicek Law Firm
Brett Slavicek was born in suburban chicago. He studied philosophy at Rhodes College, Graduating with honors in 1995. He was then accepted into many of the Country’s Top law schools, ultimately enrolling in Northwestern University School of Law. There, he focused his studies on trial practice and negotiation, earning the highest grade in his class for negotiation
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About The Slavicek Law Firm: Brett Slavicek established the firm in 2001. Ever since then , Brett and all of our attorneys exclusively represent people injured bt other.
Barbara Stinnett
Founder and CEO of Timmaron Group
Barb Stinnett is the founder and CEO of Timmaron Group (“TG”), a global services company focused on applied technologies and offering strategic planning, business development, informatics, transformative consulting, and investments in early stage disruptive technologies. Recognized for her expertise in software in the healthcare, media and digital content, consumer and predictive analytics markets, Barb works with entrepreneurs and Fortune 25 alike with her global firm. She participates in community activities as a mentor for Minnesota Emerging Software Advisory (MESA), judge for the Minnesota and Fowler Cups, board member for multiple companies, and chairwoman for the Chief Executive Council, an invited CEO membership organization based in Silicon Valley. She is a seasoned operating executive, with more than 25 years of Silicon Valley experience and a successful track record, in consumer and enterprise markets. Her past experience includes Hewlett Packard – where she played a key role in the HP/ Compaq merger, Oracle – where she built their Data Informatics global organizations, Cisco – where she served as their global leader for the Communications and Service Provider business unit, and Sybase – where she led the acquisition of iAnywhere and assisted in the transformation of the company from a database to a mobile informatics organization. In addition, Barb has been CEO for multiple software firms, with a solid track record of delivering results and exits that have been beneficial to shareholders and customers alike. She has assisted early stage companies position for their raises, totaling over $500 million during a three year period. Her relationships with local angels and global VC and private equity firms brings experience to the Fund in and outside of the Midwest.
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About Timmaron Group: Experts in applied technologies, innovation and building growth strategies globally.
Stephen Neal
CEO of Cooley
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About Cooley: Cooley is a legal services company that solves legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, and established companies.
Raminder Singh
Chief Executive Officer of HELM360
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About HELM360: Helm360 has gained extensive expertise in business intelligence and analytics.
Jeffrey Eschbach
Founder & CEO of Page Vault
JEFFREY ESCHBACH is an entrepreneur and tech innovator, with over 20 years of experience creating new products and businesses. He is the founder and CEO of Page Vault Inc., a company that transforms Internet content into evidence for the legal world. Before that, Jeffrey built a career leading R&D initiatives at Intel Japan and Motorola Research Labs. After moving to Chicago a decade ago, he became immersed in its growing startup scene, and now advises and invests in early-stage companies there. He received an MBA with honors from The Kellogg School of Management, regularly teaches as a professor at the school, and serves as the Director of Program Outreach for the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative. He also holds undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. Jeffrey is a National Science Foundation Fellow, has earned 11 USPTO patents related to cloud-computing, and frequently speaks on startup and corporate innovation topics.
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About Chicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV), Kellogg School of Management, Page Vault: Page Vault enables legal professionals to easily capture web content for use as evidence in the U.S. courts.
Cassindy Chao
CEO and Founder of Proxifile
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About Proxifile: The world’s first Claims as a Service (CLaaS) platform to help businesses and individuals navigate financial and property recovery claims.
Chris Knoch
CEO of Big Squid
Chris Knoch is CEO at Big Squid where he brings 17+ years of experience to the challenge of building truly data- and math-driven solutions for their clients’ specific challenges. Chris loves the challenge of building solutions in the fast-growing worlds of business intelligence, big data, and predictive analytics, while staying true to his “data to dollars” roots in digital marketing and ad technology. Prior to joining Big Squid, Chris served in product and client-focused leadership roles at companies like Omniture, Adobe, 360i, Kenshoo, and IgnitionOne. He’s also held marketing leadership roles at companies like AT&T and Ready Financial. Over the years he has built data-driven solutions for clients such as Nike, Zappos, Shutterfly, Crate&Barrel, Expedia, Sears, Best Buy, American Express, CenturyLink, and many more.
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About Big Squid: Big Squid’s innovative platform brings Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning to the Business Decision Maker & front lines of a business.
Igor Litinsky
CEO and Founder of AppClose
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About AppClose: AppClose is a co-parenting app bringing more clarity and peace of mind to daily life.
Jeff Herman
Attorney, CEO & Founder of Herman Law
Jeff Herman is a nationally-recognized advocate and attorney for victims of rape, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. Driven by his commitment to break the silence on child sexual abuse, Jeff Herman has dedicated his career to exposing sexual predators and the institutions that protect them. The trailblazing attorney is noted for exposing the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Miami and in dioceses around the country. In 2011, he won a landmark $100 million verdict on behalf of a client who was sexually abused by a priest. Recently, Herman made national headlines for representing multiple men in sexual abuse lawsuits against former Elmo puppeteer, Kevin Clash. Herman’s Boca Raton based law firm, Herman Law, is dedicated exclusively to representing victims of sexual abuse in civil lawsuits nationwide. Outside the courtroom, the high-profile attorney continues to “shine the light” on sexual abuse. He has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Forbes and New York magazine and he has been a featured expert on CNN, FOX, HLN, and MSNBC. Herman has been recognized for his unique child forensic interviewing technique and he trains professionals from various child welfare organizations on helping sexually abused children heal through disclosure.
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About Herman Law: Law Office founded by Jeff Herman and headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.
David Gray
CEO of CaseBriefs
David Gray is CEO @ CaseBriefs.
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About CaseBriefs: CaseBriefs offers digital study supplements to the law student market in the form of briefs, outlines, and exam prep materials.
Hemanth Puttaswamy
CEO & Co-Founder of Malbek
Hemanth Puttaswamy is a technology entrepreneur. As CEO and co-founder at Malbek, his vision is to redefine the quote-to-cash solution aimed for the age of AI. Hemanth is a hands-on leader with a passion for building a great team with an amazing culture that zealously works to make every customer successful. He is responsible for overall corporate strategy and product vision with a keen eye towards building the best man-to-machine solution interface that will delight every user. Prior to Malbek, he was a Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Products and Technology. He led the development and product management teams and drove strategy for all solution offerings. Prior to joining Revitas, Hemanth served as CTO and SVP of Products and Development at Saba, where he lead a global team of engineers and product managers that successfully delivered enterprise solutions for some of the most demanding organizations. He also previously held senior positions at Coremetrics, Javasoft/Sun, and Chordiant.
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About Malbek: Malbek is an AI platform that provides enterprise contract lifecycle management from request, redlining, signature, and commitment tracking.
Wa’il Ashshowwaf
Founder & CEO of Reyets: Social Justice Network
Wa’il has an extensive professional career across a range of industries and geographies including roles at Pepsi, Walt Disney World, HSBC, and Rooam Inc., with experience both domestically and abroad. Having spent more than 15 years in financial services, Wa’il now oversees Unstuck Labs business operations, including product development for Reyets, and Fotomo. Leading marketing, partnerships, sales, finance, and business development strategy. Experience In addition to his primary role at Unstuck Labs, Wa’il serves as the Cofounder and Board Member for The Global Advisory Group, an international consulting firm that facilitates cross-border business alliances and transactions between companies in North America and the Middle East. In this role, he works closely with U.S. and international companies, including tech startups to provide strategic counsel on funding, marketing, negotiations, and business development. Prior to Unstuck Labs, Wa’il served as Vice President of International Commercial Banking at HSBC USA, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. In this position, he managed over $1 billion in assets and structured and executed private placements. In addition, he helped U.S.-based companies assess, formulate, and implement financial strategies and solutions to support operations, sales growth, compliance and facilitate expansion into international markets. Before that, he was the Regional Manager of Government and Institutional Banking at HSBC USA, with a primary focus on Embassies. During his tenure at HSBC, he built relationships with numerous government and business leaders worldwide and analyzed their organizations’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and internal business processes. Expertise Wa’il is a Board Member at the American University KOGOD School of International Business and a US State Department Professional Fellow. He is a published columnist and guest speaker at panel discussions and conferences on topics related to hospitality, business, banking, fundraising, and more. He is passionate about environmental issues and has partnered on education and research projects with the National Environmental Education Foundation, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and World Wild Life Foundation. Education He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from California State University and a Master’s degree in Business Leadership from The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He went on to receive Certifications in International Compliance from the University of Manchester and Business Strategy from Harvard Business School.
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About Reyets: Social Justice Network, Unstuck Labs: Reyets empowers safer community / police interactions through mobile enabled education, resource sharing, reporting and data analysis.
Johnny Fuery
CEO/Principal Engineer of Merus
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About Merus, Merus: Merus helps attorneys, paralegals, and legal staff provide better results to their clientele.
Mike McGinley
CEO of SRO Consultants
Mike founded SRO Consultants, an entertainment business strategy and consulting firm, twenty-five years ago and has fostered close business relationships with almost every major talent agency, management firm, and concert promoter both domestically and internationally. He has been an investor and advisor to many early-stage startups, including Facebook, Skype, and Napster.
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About SRO Consultants: SRO Consultants, an entertainment business strategy and consulting firm.
Najib Babul
CEO and Drug Development Consultant of Cinergen, LLC
Dr. Najib Babul, PharmD, MBA is seasoned drug development scientist, inventor and biotech entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in bringing new drugs to market. Presently he provides consulting services to the pharmaceutical & investment banking communities. Najib Babul also serves as the Director of Medical and Pharmaceutical Consulting at the California Institute of Advanced Management in Greater Los Angeles. Previously, Dr. Babul was (i) VP, Clinical Development at Cadence Pharmaceuticals (now a part of Mallinckrodt), (ii) Founder, CEO and CSO of Relmada Therapeutics Inc. (p/k/a, TheraQuest), a clinical stage pain therapeutics company; (iii) President of Cinergen, a drug development consulting company; (iv) VP, Global Clinical Drug Development & Therapeutic Leader, Analgesia & Rheumatology at Scirex (now Premier Research) and (v) Director, CNS Clinical Research at Purdue Pharma. He has been an invited speaker at FDA and FDA Advisory Committee. Najib Babul has published over ≥ 170 abstracts and manuscripts in leading medical journals and scientific proceedings, including the Lancet, JAMA, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer, Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Pain, Anesthesiology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Journal of Palliative Care and Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. His publications have been in acute postsurgical pain, cancer pain, osteoarthritis, peripheral neuropathy, opioid pharmacology, gastroenterology, cancer supportive care, infectious diseases, psychiatry, COPD, sickle cell crisis, clinical trials methodology and drug regulatory affairs. His experience includes dosage form design, scientific, regulatory and IP due diligence; clinical drug development planning; clinical trial operations; orphan drug and pediatric exclusivity; CRO management; FDA regulatory liaison; and medical affairs. I have been a senior drug development adviser to many large and mid-size pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Najib Babul has designed drug development programs on several dozen new and repurposed compounds using the 5050(b)(1) and 505(b)(2) regulatory pathways and have been responsible for securing seven FDA orphan drug designations. He has designed and published studies on OxyContin®, Avinza®, Ultram® ER, Opana® ER, Palladone®, Levorphanol ER (LevoCap ER), MS Contin®, Buprenorphine ER (BuTab ER), Topical Mepivacaine (MepiGel), IV Tramadol, IV Ketoprofen, and Inhaled and Intranasal Morphine. Najib Babul has an undergraduate degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of British Columbia, a doctor of pharmacy degree from the SUNY, Buffalo, and an MBA from the California Institute of Advanced Management, Greater Los Angeles. Dr. Babul is a member of the American Pain Society, American Academy of Neurology, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, American College of Rheumatology, American College of Clinical Pharmacology, American Pain Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Drug Information Association, International Anesthesia Research Society, International Association for the Study of Pain, Society for Neuroscience and Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society. Najib Babul is responsible for securing seven FDA orphan drug designations. He is the sole inventor on more than 32 patent applications culminating in 8 active US non-provisional applications and 3 patents, each supporting one or more dosage forms currently in development.
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About Cinergen, LLC: DrugDevelopment Consulting Firm
Sarah Schaaf
Founder and CEO of Headnote
Sarah Schaaf is the founder and CEO of Headnote. She previously worked for various companies including SVB Financial Group, NFX Guild, Google, Inc., Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP, Walsworth, Franklin, Bevins & McCall, LLP, and more. Sarah holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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About Headnote: Headnote powers compliant ePayments for the $276B US legal industry.
Andy Barkett
CEO of Getexp
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About Getexp, Pixlee, REX – Real Estate Exchange, Seed&Spark, Spaceback: Getexp is a consulting firm that specializes in big data research and software development.
Slava Borisov
CEO & Founder of Drop Development
Slava Borisov has led Drop Development, Inc. since its inception. He successfully developed numerous residential, commercial and mixed-use projects. Previously as an industry leader in QSR development, building out and oversight over 200 projects with Menchie’s, a worldwide leader in frozen yogurt. He built the company on the core value around clients always being first. “Where you are always priority.
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About Drop Development: Drop Development, Inc. understands each vision is unique and dreams are better lived.
Markus Lampinen
CEO of Prifina
Markus is a serial entrepreneur and loves working with talented, unrelenting teams on ambitious challenges. He’s passionate about personal freedom and how to empower individuals around the world with technology. Markus is currently the CEO of Prifina, a company that aims to give individuals back control of their data. Prior to Prifina, Markus served as CEO of Difitek, an enterprise fintech company, providing a finance back office for modern financial platforms for over 100 companies around the world. Over the past years, Markus has been privileged to work with teams from around the world in powering modern financial applications to serve underserved market segments. He’s been involved in launching new products in financial services, for mission critical, sensitive data and transaction in compliance with various regulatory bodies. He’s also been fortunate to be at the forefront of new technologies and their adoption, such as blockchain, serverless and AI. Before that Markus has worked in industries such as venture capital and digital content and had his fair share of learnings from his own investments and stops and starts as an entrepreneur. Markus’ philosophy as an entrepreneur and team is that you have to learn faster than the challenges unfold. Markus has a background across Europe, Asia and now the US, first from the east coast and is now based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Prifina: Prifina is a venture-backed firm offering resources and infrastructure for developers to help them build apps that run on user-held data.
Jason Magee
Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise
Jason Magee is the Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise.
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About ConnectWise: ConnectWise is a software company that transforms how technology solution providers build, manage, and grow their businesses.
Alex Babin
CEO/Co-Founder of ZERØ
Alex Babin is CEO at ZERO.
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About ZERØ: ZERØ is an AI-powered email management technology that automates time-consuming administrative tasks for lawyers.
Basit Mustafa
Founder, CEO of Voltaire
Basit started Voltaire in 2014. He’s an experienced technologist with a strong interest and natural knack in solving complex problems with simple solutions. Basit’s career has spanned a variety of roles in development, management, and sales at IBM and his own ventures. In addition to his passion for technology, he is an avid ultra runner, climber, and skier – so it’s only natural he chose Telluride to build Voltaire around a strong community of passionate, like-minded individuals.
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About Voltaire: Voltaire helps you pick winning juries with actionable information delivered into the courtroom on-demand through our mobile apps.
Teel Lidow
CEO & Founder of FairShake
Teel is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He previously worked at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and at LegalZoom. He also founded an ethical clothing startup. Teel has spent 12 months rejecting a large cable company’s attempts to charge him a replacement fee for equipment that he already returned.
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About FairShake: FairShake is building the future of consumer law by giving everyone the power to understand and assert their consumer rights.
Wendell Jisa
Chief Executive Officer of Reveal
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About Reveal: Reveal is a global provider of eDiscovery, compliance and risk technology.
Liam Brown
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Elevate Services
Liam helps general counsel and law firm leaders improve effectiveness and efficiency. In 2011 he launched Elevate as the law company to provide consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms. Liam was previously the Founder, President, and CEO of Integreon, a global LPO, which he led from a startup in 2001 to annual sales of $150 million by 2011, before he sold to private equity investors. Prior to Integreon, he was the Founder, President, and COO of a pioneering VC-backed Web 1.0 virtual data room legal tech company, which he sold to a public company in 2001. Liam is a frequent speaker at legal conferences and regularly publishes articles about trends in the legal sector. He is also an active investor in emerging legal technologies and an executive coach for founders of startups.
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About Elevate Services: Elevate Services is a law company that offers consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms.
Matthew Lombardi
Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Metro
As Chief Executive Officer, Matthew is responsible for Atlantic Metro’s day-to-day-operations, as well as leading the company’s growth and development of managed technology services. He is dedicated to helping Atlantic Metro’s customers succeed, overcome IT challenges, and enable their business growth. Matthew is responsible for creating and expanding strategic partnerships and relationships, as well as overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Stephen Klenert and James Cornman. Matthew is an established business leader with over 25 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Atlantic Metro in 2010, Matthew spent 18 years as the Vice President of Information Technology at Toys”R”Us and was instrumental in the development and implementation of the company’s e-commerce platform. He has held influential leadership roles as the President and COO at Planet Technology Solutions, President at Vytek Wireless Solutions, Chairman and CEO at Sentinel Business Systems, and Senior Vice President at DecisionPoint Systems. Matthew has had a successful career developing and leading profitable IT organizations; he now works with Atlantic Metro to achieve the same success.
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About Atlantic Metro: Atlantic Metro delivers custom-tailored IT solutions like cloud hosting, nationwide network connectivity, and secure data center colocation.
Jack Xu
CEO of PatentPal
Machine learning, natural language processing, legal technology
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About PatentPal: PatentPal uses machine learning and natural language processing to autogenerate patent applications.
Dev Turner
Co-founder & CEO of FocalCast
Ironman, pilot & CEO of FocalCast. Former NASA engineer and Marquette Alumni
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About Capital Innovators, FocalCast: Live qualitative research platform with no downloads or plugins
Justin Casale-Savage
CEO & Founder of Savage Advisory
Justin is a serial entrepreneur and venture advisor, but more importantly, is someone who is motivated to identify and partner with talented entrepreneurs who are redefining their respective industries. Justin founded Savage Advisory to provide the necessary guidance that every founder needs regardless of their prior experience and respective company’s maturity. Over the past six years, Justin has worked with over 50 early-stage companies, across a variety of sectors; Media: Fingerprint, K2 Media, Frequency; Publishing: Dazed Digital, Fashion Networks Europe; Ecommerce: Coordinates, Xterra, Master & Muse; Marketplaces / On Demand: BashPros, Curbstand, Chefmate; Social: Shimmur, Heartbeat Media, Jogg; Health & Wellness: Wellnest, Beachbody Fintech: OPER, Float. Additionally, he has held C-level positions at a number of early-stage companies, most recently as Chief Revenue Officer at Jogg, a Disney & Techstars Accelerator company. Moreover, he served as an Associate at the Dodgers Accelerator with R/GA Ventures and as an Associate at Watertower Group, a Los Angeles based venture advisory & investment firm. Before that, he was an Associate in the Media & Telecom investment banking group at Houlihan Lokey. Justin received his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and his BA from University of Florida, where he was a Warrington Scholar, a distinction given only to the top 3% of finance students.
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About OPER, Savage Advisory, Wellnest: Savage Advisory is a venture advisory firm that partners with founders to fuel growth & achieve scale.
Michael Hiles
Founder & CEO of 10XTS
Michael Hiles is CEO at 10XTS.
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About 10XTS, Cincinnati Crypto Fund, Digital Dollar Podcast, Intellig8: We make governance, risk, and compliance simple.
Seth Hallem
Co-Founder & CEO of Mobile Helix
Seth Hallem is the CEO, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Mobile Helix. Seth’s academic and professional experience is in software security, architecture, and development. While at Stanford, Seth become a co-founder and the CEO of Coverity, Inc., the leader in advanced software development testing. Seth served as Coverity’s CEO from 2002 to 2010, during which time the company grew to over 150 employees and 1,000 customers worldwide. Coverity was acquired by Synopsys for $375 million in February 2014. Seth has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he also started a PhD program in advanced software analysis techniques. In 2008 Seth was recognized as an MIT “TR35” recipient for contributions in the field of software quality and testing.
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About Mobile Helix: Wiith LINK, attorneys & knowledge professionals work from anywhere. Compare, annotate, edit, email documents using a single encrypted app.
Bob Polus
Founder, CEO & President of Xact Data Discovery
As original founder of Xact Duplicating, Inc. in 1994, Bob Polus is the President and CEO at XDD. Bob has played an instrumental, hands-on leadership role for 20+ years, having evolved the company from its roots in paper discovery to its present suite of eDiscovery, data management and managed review services. Bob continues to spearhead the company’s exponential revenue growth in domestic and international markets, managing all mergers, investor relations and executive leadership team priorities. Leveraging the company’s unique “communication” brand platform, Bob continues to drive incremental growth across XDD’s 15 domestic and two international markets, in parallel with inspiring excellence with the company’s dedicated personnel at all levels.
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About Xact Data Discovery: Xact Data Discovery is an international provider of eDiscovery, data management, and managed review services for law firms and corporations.
Jake Heller
Chief Executive Officer of Casetext
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About Casetext: Casetext is an AI legal research technology for litigators, helping researchers find cases.
Eric Bakker
CEO & Founder of Computer Design & Integration
Eric Bakker has been recognized throughout his professional career as a leader with a vision for the future. He co-founded CDI with his wife, Trish Bakker, in their garage in Tappan, New York, and helped drive it into the $300M+ organization it is today. Eric possesses a deep understanding of information technology and how to apply that technology to meet core business objectives. He is a true entrepreneur who has always been one step ahead of the marketplace. Evidence comes in the form of Eric’s ability to successfully evolve CDI’s service organization from a pure technical consulting company into a single-source technology solution implementer by partnering with leading hardware and software suppliers. He knows the keys to creating a successful company: motivating employees, continuously building on their skill levels, encouraging a spirit of enthusiasm and taking care of customers. Eric received his Bachelors of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology (BSEET) from DeVry Institute of Technology in 1984, and pursued his Master’s of Science in Telecommunications Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. Eric began his professional career at Hewlett-Packard, where he worked for eight years as a senior technical consultant before founding CDI in 1995.
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About Computer Design & Integration: Computer Design & Integration providers offerings clients and businesses of all sizes the most upto date hybrid IT technology solutions.
Olga Mack
CEO of Parley Pro
Olga V. Mack is the CEO of Parley Pro, a next-generation contract management company that has pioneered online negotiation technology. Olga focuses on improving and shaping the future of law, having led from the front lines for decades as an award-winning general counsel, operations professional, startup advisor, public speaker, adjunct professor, and entrepreneur. Leaders from multiple industries value Olga’s in-depth analytical work on the impact of disruptive technologies such as blockchain, AI, and smart contracts. Her ability to demonstrate how the legal profession will emerge stronger, more resilient, and more inclusive than ever, and the trust her work inspires, encourages others to embrace legal innovation with confidence. Olga’s skills and enthusiasm for working with cutting-edge technology led her to previously serve as Vice President of Strategy at Quantstamp, the first decentralized security auditing blockchain platform. She currently serves as an advisory board director at Quantstamp as well as Phylos, ChannelMeter, and Lovelyloot, in addition to serving on numerous boards. Thriving at the forefront of technological innovation and committed to helping others turn knowledge into action, Olga co-authored Fundamentals of Smart Contract Security and authoring Blockchain Business Models. As a popular speaker, she connects with groups of all sizes, industries, and disciplines. Recent engagements include speaking at TEDxSanFrancisco about the impact potential of blockchain and smart contracts and at SXSW about blockchain business models. Olga is also an outspoken advocate for professional women, co-founding SunLaw, an organization that prepares women in-house attorneys to become general counsels and legal leaders, and WISE, which helps female law firm partners become rainmakers. She also founded the Women Serve on Boards movement that advocates for women to participate on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies, motivating over a dozen Fortune 500 companies to recruit their first women directors. In 2019, she authored Get on Board: Earning Your Ticket to a Corporate Board Seat to help demystify effective board service for all.
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About Parley Pro: Parley Pro is a modern contract lifecycle management platform that helps companies create, negotiate and manage smarter contracts faster.
Nancy Josephs
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Veritext
Nancy is focused on ensuring Veritext continues to deliver on its promise of outstanding client service and operational excellence nationally and in each of our regions. A pioneer in the court reporting industry, Nancy continues to focus on ways to improve the way we serve all our clients, while maintaining the unique and personalized offerings available in each location we serve. Nancy is a co-founder of Veritext. She has been an integral part of the management team that has helped Veritext grow into the industry leader. Prior to Veritext’s founding, she spent nearly 15 years as a management consultant, providing services to Fortune 500 clients across a variety of industries on strategic initiatives such as optimizing organizational structures, business processes, information technology, and human resources. Nancy has also held the positions of Vice President with Bronner Slosberg Humphrey, President and Founder of Brookshire Enterprises, and Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche. She holds Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Health degrees from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.
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About Veritext: Veritext provides deposition and litigation support services to the legal services industry.
