Afshin Behnia is Mitratech’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Since joining the company in 1992, he has served in the executive positions of Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Strategy before becoming appointed President and CEO in 2004.

In 1995, Mr. Behnia focused Mitratech’s product strategy towards web-based collaborative matter management solutions for the legal market. In 1997, the result of this initiative, TeamConnect for CLMS, was named one of the top ten products in the legal industry. Subsequently, Mr. Behnia played a crucial role in developing Mitratech’s business strategy as an enterprise solution provider. Since then, Mr. Behnia has grown Mitratech and penetrated new markets such as compliance, risk management, and security.

He holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Steven Harmon is a member of the Cisco Legal executive management team where he manages the Legal Technology Solutions (“LTS”) and Global Export Trade (“GET”) teams.  The LTS team is chartered with developing and maintaining systems and process that support the efficiency and accuracy of legal functions at Cisco. These systems and processes include contract management, export compliance tools, regulatory compliance, legal knowledge management, web-based resources, and file room operations.  The GET team is responsible for expediting Cisco’s worldwide trade by ensuring global compliance with global export rules and regulations.

Mr. Harmon also continues to practice law for Cisco as an adjunct member of the Licensing team where he focuses his practice on intellectual property issues with a specific emphasis on matters including Privacy, Standards Setting Organizations, and sponsored research programs.

Alexander Arato is the Vice President and Associate General Counsel of CA, Inc.  In that capacity, Mr. Arato is responsible for managing relationships with outside counsel as well as assisting the general counsel in formulating and implementing internal policies and strategies.  He is also primarily responsible for CA, Inc.’s eDiscovery and overall records management policies and procedures.  Mr. Arato is also responsible for managing aspects of CA’s trade secret, contract, employment and tort litigation in federal, state and bankruptcy courts.  Mr. Arato has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D, magna cum laude, from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review.

Louann Barnett is the President and Founder of June Consulting Group.  Ms. Barnett has more than a decade of experience helping Fortune 100 companies implement matter management, business intelligence, and electronic billing solutions. Her business analysis, design skills and in-depth knowledge of TeamConnect and CSM have contributed to streamlined processes and the implementation of industry best practices for some of the world’s largest companies. Ms. Barnett has a strong reputation as a troubleshooter who brings complicated projects to a successful conclusion. She firmly believes that “getting in the trenches” with clients and delivering the highest quality service are essential for ongoing relationships and ultimate success.   Prior to moving into legal technology, Ms. Barnett was a senior manager of data warehouse and reporting for GE Capital and a manager in the accounting department at Arthur Andersen.

Mr. Brewer is currently serving as senior vice president and chief compliance officer for Office Depot, Inc. Prior to his current roles, he was a director of audit with W.R. Grace & Co., a premier global specialty chemicals and materials company. Previously, Mr. Brewer was director of audits/security for Praxair Inc., a worldwide provider of industrial gases, including atmospheric, process and specialty gases. Earlier, he was a manager at Union Carbide Corporation, a chemical and polymers company. Mr. Brewer holds a BS degree from West Virginia Institute of Technology, a CPA with the State of West Virginia and an MBA from the University of New Haven.

Bryan Brum is an attorney with United Parcel Service in Atlanta, Georgia.  He has been with UPS for 18 years and is responsible for providing legal support to UPS Human Resources in the employee benefits area and for the UPS Foundation.  Mr. Brum is also responsible for management of the UPS Legal Department's Technology and Office Administration group.  Mr. Brum is a Certified Public Accountant and prior to UPS Legal, he worked in the UPS Tax Department, and before UPS worked in the Tax Division at Arthur Andersen.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgia Special Olympics and has previously presented at various legal conferences, including Legal Tech, the Law Partnering Institute and various employee benefits related topics.

David Cambria has over 15 years of broad experience in the legal, business, and technology arena.  Prior to joining Aon, he was a Manager in Huron Consulting Group’s LBC practice which focuses on managing all aspects of the Office of General Counsel.   

Mr. Cambria’s experience includes integrating technological initiatives with legal consulting services for corporate law departments, law firms, and insurance companies. Specifically, his focus has been on business process improvement, technology assessment and planning, organizational structure analysis, electronic invoicing, time and billing, and matter management selection and implementation. Mr. Cambria has presented at various industry seminars and executive briefings as well as authored several articles for publication. 

Lisa Cannone has served as Senior Director of Legal Services since September 2005.  She joined CuraScript, Inc., a subsidiary of Express Scripts, in 2002 as the Director of Corporate Compliance, and then served as the Chief Privacy Officer.  Prior to joining Express Scripts, she held various positions within the legal arena and worked for key companies including Westinghouse Electric Company, Stadtlander’s Pharmacy and TechRx Incorporated.

A financial management professional for over 25 years, Mr. Carpenter was most recently responsible for the financial operations of the Law department of Wyeth. This included financial analysis, cost control, spend analysis, billing operations and process re-engineering. Mr. Carpenter was involved in restructuring and implementing the processes and systems to track, analyze and control outside legal spend. He led the development of a complete electronic legal management environment that reduced cost and provided key decision-making information to the General Counsel and legal leadership team.

Jonathan K. Cooperman is a litigation partner in the New York office of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. His practice focuses on all aspects of civil litigation, including commercial litigation and contract disputes; environmental law (property damage and personal injury); corporate fraud; unfair competition; leasehold disputes; and bankruptcy. Mr. Cooperman is a member of the firm’s seven person Executive Committee and as such is an active participant in the decision-making process of managing the firm. In 2007 and 2009, Mr. Cooperman was selected as a New York “Super Lawyer” based on independent research conducted by the publisher of Law & Politics magazine. Having practiced law for nearly 25 years, his experience working with clients in all industries has provided him with the insight and business acumen to understand and develop successful budget and fee strategies. As a result of Mr. Cooperman’s extensive experience with alternative billing arrangements, he has continued to cultivate trusted relationships with numerous repeat clients.

Doug Cornelius oversees the development and management of the compliance program at Beacon Capital Partners, LLC. The focus of the program is on regulatory compliance, anti-fraud, business ethics, anti-corruption, insider trading, records management, human resources, and privacy. You can find Mr. Cornelius online at Compliance Building, his blog on compliance and business ethics: http://www.ComplianceBuilding.com.

Mr. Cornelius has Juris Doctor cum laude, from Boston University School of Law and B.A. from Brandeis University.

David Duden is a Firm Director focused on Insurance, Claims, Risk Management and Safety Solutions within the Actuarial, Risk and Analytics practice. As a leader of the practice, Dave directs risk management and claims technology related engagements for the firm. In addition, he heads the RMIS/Lab and Insurance Vendor Alliance initiative for the firm. He has over thirty years experience in all phases of the insurance industry, specializing in workers compensation and his background includes positions with carriers, third-party administrators, agency management firms and insurance technology outsourcing and consulting organizations. He has successfully managed a wide variety of consulting projects for firms representing every technology component of the insurance, risk management and safety industry.  Including Underwriting systems, Policy Management, Customer Relationship Management systems, Rating engines, Rules engines, Business Process Management tools, Claims FROI tools, Claims reserving and payment systems, Litigation and Medical Management Systems and Safety compliance tools.

Thomas G. Dunlop is an Assistant Vice President in the Legal Services Division of the CNA Insurance Companies. His responsibilities include the management of a 22-person centralized bill review unit, oversight of CNA’s panel firms, litigation guideline and expense management, Legal Services operations, and legal vendor management and contracting. Mr. Dunlop has over 10 years of experience with litigation management and E-billing software. He has been involved in numerous legal software and workflow projects at CNA. He has been with CNA Insurance Companies for over twenty years including positions as a managing trial attorney and regional assistant vice president for staff counsel. Prior to coming to CNA he was in private practice with a concentration in commercial litigation. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his J.D. from Gonzaga University.

As chief ethics officer for Best Buy, Kathleen Edmond develops and directs global vision for the company’s ethics and business conduct and is a key partner in the corporate social responsibility work.   Best Buy’s ethics function originally came together to assure compliance with the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley, but Edmond grew the focus to be one of creating and sustaining an ethical business culture. Ultimately, she wants to help create a culture which rewards employees for thoughtful deliberation on issues involving ethics, integrity and responsibility.  Edmond oversees a matrixed structure which engages leaders from all over the world, and at all levels of the organization (from store leadership to the board of directors).

A Minneapolis native, Edmond earned her juris doctor from the University of Minnesota (cum laude), master’s degree in business ethics from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and her bachelor’s degree from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minn. (cum laude). She serves on the boards of directors for Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), Penumbra Theater, and the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Overseers Board.

Suzanne Gainer has spent nearly fifteen years involved in all aspects of insurance defense and coverage litigation in both Illinois and Arizona, in the areas of general liability, automobile liability, products liability, medical malpractice liability, construction defect, and commercial litigation.  Ms. Gainer served as Illinois House Counsel for a large domestic automobile insurance carrier as well as in-house positions for two other major international carriers. 

Ms.Gainer transitioned from the practice of law to litigation management in 2008 when she became the Director of Litigation Management for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation.  In this position, she is responsible for the handling and management of over 3,000 individual suits and 4 complex class actions.  Her duties include developing and implementing litigation procedures and billing guidelines for a dozen outside law firms and daily involvement in complex and high exposure litigation.

Danette Gallatin joined Williams as the Legal Department Business Manager in 2000.  Ms. Gallatin’s responsibilities include managing the operations of the legal department and serving as a liaison to the accounting, information technology and human resource functions.  She also serves as the project manager or sponsor for all major department initiatives and assists with the management of other groups that comprise the office of the general counsel. 

Before joining Williams, Ms. Gallatin served as an administrator for a mid-size law firm following a ten year career in public accounting with PriceWaterhouse Coopers.

Gerry Gatt has worked at DTE Energy for over 30 years in various IT and business roles and is currently Director of Legal Administration for the enterprise legal organization where he is responsible for technology, continuous improvement initiatives, non-lawyer legal staff, budgeting and financial analysis, and contract administration. Mr. Gatt is currently managing several new legal technology initiatives and along with recently completing the Teamconnect upgrade from 2.4 to 3.1, also implementing an enterprise-wide records management and a-Discovery solutions to address legal holds, forensic collections, and document review and productions.

Dan Gillenwater is Project Manager/Legal Systems Analyst for GMAC Financial Services, a global financial services company that was founded in 1919.  In this role, Mr. Gillenwater has successfully implemented TeamConnect Collaborative Spend Management (CSM) providing a fully-integrated e-billing and matter management system.  This solution helped in the separation of GMAC Legal’s systems from GM in early 2009.

Prior to joining GMAC Financial Services, Mr. Gillenwater managed numerous upgrades and implementation projects while adhering to a Project Quality Model (PQM) methodology at  Elite, a Thomson Reuters Company .  He has also successfully managed projects during his time at Dykema , a leading national law firm,  and Perot Systems.  Prior to this, Mr.  Gillenwater  worked for Butzel Long and was responsible for the Client Accounting Department.

Mr. Gillenwater earned a BBA in General Business with Cum Laude Honors and a Master of Science in Business Information Technology with an emphasis in Project Management with Magna Cum Laude Honors from Walsh College.  Mr. Gillenwater is also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Dan Hamilton is co-founder and President of Mosaic Consulting, Inc. With over fifteen years of experience in information management specific to both the private and corporate legal industry, Mr. Hamilton applies his analytical talent and leadership to improving the way information is captured and utilized. He has served as senior consultant on many matter management implementations in a wide variety of industries, providing a full range of expertise from business analysis and process re-engineering to systems configuration and training. Prior to forming Mosaic Consulting in August of 2000, Mr. Hamilton was an Implementation Consultant with Mitratech, and has worked exclusively with TeamConnect™ since that time.

With over 15 years of extensive industry experience as a lead technical consultant and project manager, Amanda Heldt manages system design and implementation at Kiersted / Systems. She has supported the legal and corporate security departments of top global companies, facilitating software implementation, developing custom legal matter management systems and designing and implementing advanced security management systems. Amanda expertly counsels Kiersted / Systems clients like Wal-Mart Stores and Shell Oil Co., helping them get the most out of their systems through proper configuration, maintenance and “tune-up” upgrades.

Janice Innis-Thompson is a Senior Vice President and the Chief Compliance Officer of TIAA-CREF. Ms. Innis-Thompson oversees and manages TIAA-CREF’s enterprise wide compliance program. She leads a team of 90 compliance professionals that are helping to transform the organization through proactive compliance risk management, education and processes optimization. Ms. Innis-Thompson reports to the General Counsel, and the Audit Committee of the Board of TIAA.

Ms. Innis-Thompson joined TIAA-CREF in October 2006 to lead the group responsible for Anti-money laundering, Policies & Procedures, Marketing & Advertising Review, Training, Privacy and Information Technology. She came from Tyco International, where she was Chief Compliance Counsel and head of global legal and regulatory compliance. Prior to that, she was the Chief Compliance Counsel at the International Paper Company. Ms. Innis-Thompson began her career with the United States Department of Justice, where she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in four jurisdictions. During that time she also served a year as Counsel to the Director of EOUSA (Executive Office for United States Attorneys), and worked with Attorney General Janet Reno during the 1996 election. Ms. Innis-Thompson holds a B.A. with honors and a J.D. from the University of Florida.

John J. Jablonski is a partner at Goldberg Segalla LLP. An experienced trial lawyer, John consults with Fortune 500 companies about pre-litigation planning, record retention policies and implementation of legal holds. He is national legal hold counsel for one of the nation’s largest retail companies. John is a frequent speaker and author on e-discovery, legal holds and electronic evidence, including articles in Law Technology News and the Information Management Journal. John is the author of the legal blog Legal Holds and Trigger Events at http://www.legalholds.typepad.com and co-author of the book 7 steps for Legal Holds of ESI and Other Documents (ARMA International 2009).  John has given legal hold workshops around the country and has participated in numerous webinars and podcasts on legal holds.

Nancy Jessen has more than 20 years of experience working with legal organizations on a variety of strategic and operational issues. Her focus has included the areas of organizational structure, cost containment, outside counsel management, process improvement and strategic technology utilization.

Karen Jones has worked at CenterPoint Energy for over 30 years and is currently Office Manager for the legal department where she is responsible for legal staff, budgeting and technology, amongst others. She is a member of the Legal Administrators Association at the national and local levels.  Ms. Jones is a past President of the Houston Chapter of Legal Administrators and was Member of the Year in 2006.

Patrick Kavanagh is the Director of Business Consulting and Analysis for the Office of the Chief Legal and Governance Office Nationwide Insurance. Patrick is responsible for the Business Information Technology group and directs the activities and staff responsible for business transformation initiatives.  He has 17 years experience working in business information technology.  He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business from Excelsior College, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Windows NT and is a member of the American Chemical Society.

With an extensive background in information technology and application development, George Kiersted founded Kiersted / Systems in 1984 to provide advanced technology services to law firms and corporate legal departments in the areas of matter management, document management, discovery, and support for complex litigation. The company was one of the first on the e-discovery scene, and under Mr. Kiersted’s guidance, has continued to develop powerful new processes, leveraging the latest technology and enhancing supporting technical systems to efficiently and accurately manage the vital e-discovery practice area, forensic services and litigation holds.

Frederick J. (“Fred”) Krebs is President of the Association of Corporate Counsel (“ACC”), a 24,000+ international membership organization, which serves as the ‘voice of the in-house bar’ and provides practical resources and extensive networking opportunities for its in-house counsel members.

Mr. Krebs’ experience includes roles as an association executive, an in-house attorney and a lawyer in private practice with the law firm of Stephens & Krebs, where he specialized in corporate and trade association law.  In 1975, Mr. Krebs joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as the Assistant General Counsel, and later as Manager of the Labor and Human Resources Policy Department, overseeing all policy development and lobbying on labor and human resources issues.  Mr. Krebs joined ACC as the Executive Director in 1991 and during his time with ACC, the association has tripled in size, from 7,800 members in 1991, to now more than 24,000 members.

Mr. Krebs frequently speaks and writes on issues related to in-house practice management, ethics and professional responsibility, as well as provides insight and commentary for media inquiries in the U.S., Canada, China and Europe. He serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School and is on the Corporate Directors Institute Advisory Board for the National Association of Corporate Directors.  Mr. Krebs is a member of the American Bar Association and American Society of Association Executives.

Maria Leggett is the Manager of Legal Business Analysis for Textron Litigation.  She is responsible for the operation and support of TeamConnect.  In her role, she works with Enterprise Legal and IT to implement new features and functionality and achieve long-term strategies for the application.  Since joining Corporate Legal in June 2007, Maria has implemented the enterprise outside counsel evaluation scoring and tracking, Collaborative Spend Management, Service of Process Manager and the TeamConnect upgrades to 2.5 and 3.1.

Maria joined Textron in 2005 and has been leading system implementation projects across the enterprise in HR and Legal.  She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a certified Textron Six Sigma Green Belt (LEAN) and a certified Technical Trainer (CTT+). She holds a Masters of Education degree in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Journalism from Miami University. 

Brady K. Long is the Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Pride International, Inc. (NYSE:PDE).  Prior to that, Mr. Long served as Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel of Pride.  He joined Pride in 2005 after having practiced corporate and securities law for BJ Services Company (NYSE: BJS) and Bracewell & Patterson LLP (the predecessor to Bracewell & Giuliani LLP).

In September 2007, Mr. Long was appointed as the Chairman of the Ethics & Corporate Compliance Committee of the International Association of Drilling Contractors.  In 2009, he was named by Ethisphere as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.

Mr. Long graduated with honors from the University of Texas School of Law and magna cum laude from Brigham Young University.

Brian M. Martin is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of KLA-Tencor Corporation.  Prior to joining KLA-Tencor, Mr. Martin served in senior legal positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc. for the past 10 years. Prior to his career at Sun, Mr. Martin was in private practice where he had extensive experience in antitrust and intellectual property litigation.  Mr. Martin earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Rochester and his J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. Mr. Martin is an adjunct professor of law at Buffalo Law School where he teaches a class he developed on the ethical issues faced by in-house counsel. Mr. Martin also authors an ethics column for InsideCounsel Magazine. Mr. Martin was recently listed in Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.

Bonnie McClinton is the Global Operations Manager for Legal Program Management/RIM at Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.  She joined Halliburton in 2006 as the RIM Group began its mission to identify and implement a world-wide strategy for information management.  In 2008, Ms. McClinton also became responsible for the Law Department’s e-billing and matter management services.
   
Ms. McClinton was formerly the COO of Focus on Dallas, Inc., a marketing research company, and the vice-president of Administration at Auto Wax Company, Inc.  She has an MBA and BBA from Texas Tech University.

Steve McNew is President of Flex Discovery Solutions, an e-discovery and information management company that is addressing the growing need to simplify and control complex pricing. Previously, Mr. Mc New was a Managing Director in the Legal Consulting practice at Huron Consulting Group where he provided consulting services in enterprise search, data collection, document and ESI management, and other e-discovery related topics. Prior to Huron, Mr. McNew served as President to LIT Group, which he led to an internationally recognized litigation support and consulting firm. Mr. McNew authored a patent for a successful enterprise search technology.  He is a three-time finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and was selected by MSNBC to be featured on Terry Bradshaw’s “Winners Circle.”  Mr. McNew serves as member and advisory member to several non-profit organizations and is very active in a number of community groups involving health and safety issues for women and children.

Ryan Morgan is the FCPA Specialist for WorldCompliance, offering clients’ insight on risk evaluation, implementing effective due diligence policies, as well as best practices in protecting their company’s reputation. In this position, Mr. Morgan has worked with several major Fortune 500 companies as well as financial institutions around the world to develop effective FCPA policies and procedures.

In 2007, Mr. Morgan joined WorldCompliance where he began servicing financial companies in North America and the Caribbean. Mr. Morgan has attended industry conferences focused on preventing corruption, money laundering, and terrorism financing all over the world. He has also participated in workshops where he consulted the US government on ways to fight drug trafficking in the US and Latin America.

Prior to WorldCompliance, Mr. Morgan worked as a consultant with Wolters Kluwers where he advised financial institutions on ways to stay in compliance with US Banking laws.  Ryan Morgan was recently certified as an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist through Florida International Bankers Association.

Marcia Narine, Marcia Narine is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, as well the Vice President, Global Compliance and Business Standards and Chief Privacy Officer of Ryder System, Inc., a Fortune 500 global transportation and supply chain management solutions company with over 28,000 employees worldwide. She oversees the Company's global compliance, business ethics, privacy, government relations, environmental compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, and labor and employment legal programs, as well as Ryder Fuel Compliance Services, an entity that helps companies improve operating efficiencies, reduce costs, and minimize negative environmental impacts.

Scott Rosenberg specializes in providing business strategy and technology solutions to corporate law departments and law firms. With more than 16 years of legal technology and operations experience, Mr. Rosenberg is a subject matter expert in the engineering of legal best practice processes, including matter and document management, electronic billing, and management of intellectual property.

David Poynton is Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Iberian Minerals Corp., a Toronto listed mining company with properties in Spain and Peru.

He joined Iberian in January 2009 with a solid background in corporate/commercial business law, ranging from day-to-day advice to structuring and implementation of complex domestic and global M&A and financing transactions gained from 25 years experience. Mr. Poynton formerly practiced corporate and securities law in private practice where he acted as principal counsel to many TSX and TSXV issuers. Mr. Poynton is responsible for Iberian's Toronto office, corporate development, M&A activity and general market interaction with bankers and analysts. David Poynton holds a BA from the University of Toronto and an LLB from the University of Western Ontario. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Kevin J. Rooney joined Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. as Senior Compliance Officer and Associate General Counsel in September 2008.  Prior to joining Cerberus, Kevin was the Global Anti-Corruption Officer for American International Group, Inc. From 2006-2007, Mr. Rooney was the Global Head of Bank Anti-Corruption Compliance for Credit Suisse.  Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Rooney served as Director and Senior Counsel in the Government & Regulatory Compliance Group at Merrill Lynch.  From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Rooney was a litigation associate at the law firm of Condon & Forsyth in New York.  From 1996 to 2000, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Trial Division of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. 

Kevin Rooney has served as a speaker or panel member at several anti-corruption conferences covering topics such as: Effectively Implementing a Global FCPA Compliance Program; Conducting Effective Risk Assessments of Foreign Markets; Strategies for Investing and Operating in the People’s Republic of China; The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Global Anti-Corruption Law; U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance: Emerging FCPA Risks and Preventive Strategies.

Joy Saphla has more than ten years of experience in strategic and operational consulting. Joy’s area of concentration is assisting companies in improving their business performance by providing strategic management consulting, process improvement, and technology-related solutions.

Rich Seleznov applies more than 20 years of financial and management experience to improving the business performance of law departments and law firms through process improvement and the use of technology. His areas of focus include strategic and technology planning, business process reviews, technology assessments, benchmarking, project management, technology implementations, and cost reduction initiatives.

Patrick M. Sheller is Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak).  Mr. Sheller oversees and continuously evaluates the effectiveness of Kodak’s compliance program to insure that it meets applicable legal requirements and standards and is consistent with best industry practices.  He manages Kodak’s confidential and anonymous compliance reporting system, its enterprise risk management program, compliance training curriculum and internal investigations of compliance-related matters.  Mr. Sheller also monitors the effectiveness of Kodak’s compliance program through risk assessments and auditing of its internal compliance controls.  He routinely reports to the Audit Committee of Kodak’s Board of Directors and company senior management on the state of Kodak’s compliance program.

During his Kodak career, Mr. Sheller has been the primary legal advisor to several Kodak business units and held strategic planning and operations roles for Kodak’s Health Group.  Prior to joining Kodak, Mr. Sheller was in private law practice with McKenna and Cuneo and was a staff attorney and attorney advisor with the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Sheller is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and Albany Law School of Union University.

Carole Stern Switzer, Esq. is the President of a nonprofit think tank called the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (www.oceg.org). OCEG  provides objective standards, guidelines and online resources to help organizations Drive Principled Performance™  by integrating governance, risk management, compliance (GRC) and ethics processes. Ms. Switzer is a recognized leader in GRC.  She is frequently published on these topics in leading business magazines and lectures on GRC internationally and throughout the United States. 

Ms. Switzer served as the Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of OCEG from the time it was formed by a multi-industry, multi-disciplinary group of business leaders in January of 2003 until her appointment as President in September of 2007.  During that time, she directed development of the OCEG Framework, including the GRC capability process model referred to as the OCEG Red Book, as well as supplemental guidance within Domains addressing specific risk areas such as employment, government contracting, environmental and others. She also created and oversees the acclaimed publication GRC 360° Perspectives on Governance, Risk Management and Compliance.

Michael Stevens is a Managing Director for Huron Consulting Group with more than 17 years experience providing operational and technology consulting services to leading corporations and law firms. His particular expertise lies in the areas of operational and business process improvements, contract management, matter management, document management, and e-billing.

Michael Stetzer has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management. He has deep Corporate Legal knowledge, as well as broad product knowledge and skills in the areas of litigation case-, contract-, risk-, document-, and records management applications.

Tim Strong is a Director in the Chicago office of Duff & Phelps, LLC and is part of the Legal Management Consulting Practice specializing in corporate legal strategy, operations, and technology engagements.  Mr. Strong’s other experiences include corporate compliance strategy, programs, risk mitigation, and technology implementation.

An Trotter is Director of Legal Administration at Viacom.  Previously she served as Chief Operating Officer for Executive Education at Columbia Business School.  For ten years prior Ms. Trotter worked at The Rockefeller Foundation. She joined the Foundation in 1996 as Program Coordinator for an African Ph.D. and post-graduate fellowship program, a core science-based initiative to build human capital, and was then promoted to the position of Executive Associate in the Office of the Executive Vice President. In this role, she managed processes supporting the Foundation’s strategic planning and program implementation.

Before joining the Foundation, Ms. Trotter was a program manager with a focus on Africa for graduate training programs, including the U.S. Student Fulbright Program and USAID’s Emerging Markets Development Advisers program, both at the Institute of International Education.  She holds and a MBA in Finance and Management and a MA in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA (honors) in culture, art and intellectual history from Brown University.

Libby Troughton is Senior Manager for Legal IT at The Home Depot. In this capacity, Ms. Troughton directed a multi-year, multi-million dollar project for the custom development and deployment of web-based matter management solution for the legal and compliance departments and 110+ outside counsel law firms; including interfaces to electronic billing, third party claims administrator system, litigation support and content management. As a result, The Home Depot legal department better collaborates and communicates with outside counsel and has been able to reduce litigation costs by 10.3%. Mrs. Troughton has been recognized for her efforts to improve legal department operations with the 2005 Law Technology News Visionary Award for the Most Innovative Use of Technology in a Law Department.

Aaron Van Nice, CPA is currently Director, Operations for the Baxter International Inc. Legal Department.  In his current role, he is responsible for managing the strategy and governance process for legal technology, operational processes including vendor management, operating budget and reporting, professional development, project management, and strategic planning.  In addition, Mr. Van Nice has primary responsibility for being Liaison between other corporate staff (IT, Finance, HR, and Facilities) and the legal department.    

Prior to joining Baxter, he spent  4 years as the Director of Legal Operations for Merrill Lynch & Co., where he was responsible for managing both the implementation and the usage of end users solutions for matter, document, and knowledge management, as well as other operational processes such as vendor management.  Before Joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Van Nice spent nearly 5 years at Deloitte primarily consulting to Fortune 1000 law Departments, in the areas of technology selection and implementation and performing business process and organizational assessments.  Aaron Van Nice attended the University of Iowa, has a  BBA in Finance and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Vanessa L. Vargas-Land is Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer for Chiquita Brands, a leading international marketer and distributor of high-quality and value-added products, operating in over 70 countries.  In this role, she oversees Chiquita’s global ethics and compliance program, chairs the company’s Compliance Committee and reports regularly to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.  Prior to joining Chiquita, Ms. Vargas-Land was a member of Abbott Laboratories’ Office of Ethics and Compliance, and held various titles, including, Ethics and Compliance Officer for Abbott’s International Nutritional Division, Ethics and Compliance Officer for Abbott’s International Division and Director, Ethics and Compliance.  Previously, she served four years as Counsel in Abbott’s Litigation Department.  Prior to Abbott, Ms. Vargas-Land worked at the law firm of D’Ancona & Pflaum, LLC (now merged with Seyfarth Shaw) in Chicago, Illinois. 

Ms. Vargas-Land earned a BA with distinction in English and later, a JD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne.  She is a member of the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association, the Compliance and Ethics Leadership Council, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, and the Chicago Bar.  She also serves on the Advisory Board for the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Daniel P. Welch serves as Mitratech’s Senior Vice President of Sales & Operations, and oversees the services arm for TeamConnect Legal Suite while growing Mitratech’s deployments in compliance and international markets. Dan comes to Mitratech with a history of building and managing software organizations to implement software solutions within the Fortune 1000.  He has extensive experience in the software industry with an emphasis on customer satisfaction and quality service delivery. 

Prior to joining Mitratech, Mr. Welch was the senior vice president of Sales and Operations for Vormetric, Inc. a leading supplier of data security solutions addressing the compliance market in areas such as PCI DSS, GLBA, HIPPA.