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2017 Institute Speakers

Below is a list of the impressive speakers we have lined up to speak at the May Institute. If you are interested in reading a bio, please click on the speaker’s name.

Marc Allen | Director, HBR Consulting

Ben Allgrove | Partner, Baker McKenzie

Kevin Backus | SVP, General Counsel and Secretary, thyssenkrupp North America, Inc.

Tami Baddeley | Operations Lead, Legal Operations and Contracting, Microsoft Corporation

Cindy Thurston Bare | Director, Knowledge Management, Orrick

Rupert Battcock | Managing Counsel, Oracle

Lucy Endel Bassli | Assistant General Counsel, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation

Ralph Baxter | Advisor, Writer, and Speaker on the Legal Profession

Scott Berger | Vice President, eDiscovery Managed Service, DTI | Epiq

Rachel Berlin | Director of Project Management for the Legal Department, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Brad Blickstein | Principal, Blickstein Group

Ben Bogin | Solutions Engineer, ThinkSmart

Kevin Blodgett | President, Law Department Management Consulting, Morae Legal

Gerry Boccuti | Director of the Discovery Services Team, Pfizer

Beth Bourg | Product Marketing Manager, Adobe

Connie Brenton | Chairman of the Board, CLOC | Senior Director of Legal Operations, NetApp, Inc.

Toby Brown | Chief Practice Management Officer, Perkins Coie

Byron Buck | Senior Corporate Counsel and Manager of Law Practice Management, Caterpillar Inc.

Bernadette M. Bulacan | Director, Market Development, Thomson Reuters

Tracy Carter | EMEA Legal Operations Manager – Yahoo! EMEA Ltd

Brian Castro | Vice President, Accounts & Strategy – eDiscovery Managed Services, DTI | Epiq

Karl Chapman | Chief Executive, Riverview Law

Sylvia Chen | Patent Counsel and Patent Operations Lead, Google

Kunoor Chopra | VP Legal Services and Strategic Accounts, Elevate Services, Inc.

Lauren Chung | Managing Director, HBR Consulting

Kevin Clem | Managing Director, HBR Consulting

Christine Coats | VP of Legal Operations, Oracle

Vincent J. Cordo | Global Sourcing Officer, Shell Oil Company

Kim Craig | Managing Director, Lean Solutions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

David Cunningham | Chief Information Officer, Winston & Strawn

Marika Daggett | Legal Operations Manager, Google

Lisa Damon | Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ginger Dolgow | Senior Manager of the Global Legal Shared Services team, NetApp, Inc.

Laura Dieudonnè |HRM General Manager – Legal Administration, Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Skip Durocher | Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Prashant Dubey | President & CEO, Sumati Group

Peter-Eilhauer | Director, Legal Business Solutions, Elevate

Salim Elkhou | Founder and CEO, Onna

Christopher P. Ende | Law Firm Pricing, Solutions, and Panel Management Leader, GE

Justin Ergler | Director of Alternative Fee Intelligence and Analytics, GlaxoSmithKline

Tina Fan | Head of Customer Experience, SimpleLegal

Sheila M. FitzPatrick | President, FitzPatrick & Associates

Delilah Brummet Flaum | Partner in Charge of Knowledge Management and Legal Project Management, Winston & Strawn LLP

Tristan Forrester |Chief Strategy Officer, Ohten APAC

Jeffrey Franke | Assistant General Counsel, Legal Operations, Yahoo!

Patti Frain | Legal Operations Manager, W.W. Grainger, Inc.

Jake Frazier | Senior Managing Director, FTI Technology

Jill Fukunaga |Head of Legal Operations, Veritas Technologies LLC

Scott Fuller | Director, Legal Operations, Applied Materials

Geoff Frost | Director of Client Development, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore

Tracey Gallegos | Manager of Legal Operations, Argonne National Laboratory

Lauren Giammona |Director of Operations, Business Affairs & Legal, PayPal, Inc.

Gavin Gray | Regional Operating Office for North America, Baker McKenzie

Wafik Guirgis| Managing Director, HBR Consulting

Tanushka Gunatilake | Director, Legal Operations & Strategy – Global Legal Affairs, Hewlett Packard Corporation

Ameen Haddad | Assistant General Counsel, Oracle America, Inc.

Margaret Hagan | Director, Legal Design Lab

Matt Harmon | Manager, HBR Consulting

Steven Harmon | Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Cisco

Mike Haven | Senior Director, AGC, and Head of Legal Operations, Gap Inc.

Justin Hectus | CIO/CISO, Keesal, Young & Logan

Dan Hendy | Associate General Counsel, General Electric Company

Karl Hennessee | Senior Vice President in the Office of the General Counsel, Airbus

Helen Hickson | Executuve Director of Legal Operations and Legal Global Service Center , Accenture

Jake Hills | Director, Legal Operations, Elevate Services, Inc.

Paul Hirner | Founder and CEO, ThinkSmart

Linda Hovanec | Senior Director, Product Management – Core Markets, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions

Brandon Hollinder | Senior Director of Client Services, InsideOut Corporate Managed Services, DTI | Epiq

Nigel Hsu | Head Of Legal Operations, Waymo

Brian Hupp | Head of Legal Operations, Facebook

David Ishimaru | Senior Director, Patent Asset Development, Yahoo, Inc.

Bryant Isbell | Director, Global Practice Support, Baker McKenzie

Christina Jackson | Legal Operations Specialist, General Electric Company

Dart Jackson | Deputy General Counsel, Ciox Health

Heather Jacobson |Director, Legal Business Solutions, UnitedLex

Rick Kathuria | Director of PM and Legal Innovation, Gowling WLG

T. Sean Kelly |Senior Director, FTI Technology

Dillon Knowlton | Product Manager, ThinkSmart, LLC

Lisa Konie | Senior Director of Legal Operations, Adobe System Incorporated

Chris Kraft | Chief Growth Officer, Mitratech

Peter Krakaur | Principal, PK Consulting, San Francisco

Resa Labossiere | Associate Director – Legal Operations, Accenture

Caragh Landry | Global Head, Discovery, Integreon

Lisa Leong | CEO, Ohten APAC

Frank Lowrey | Partner, Bondurant Mixson & Elmore

Daniel Linna | Professor of Law in Residence & the Director of LegalRnD, Michigan State University College of Law

Jada Livingston | Assistant General Counsel, Nike

Aine Lyons | Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, WW Legal Operations, VMware, Inc.

Marie Ma | Senior Counsel and Director of Global Equity Administration, Gap Inc

Kiran Mallavarapu | Senior Vice President, Legal Strategic Services, Liberty Mutual

Kirsten Malm | Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Jeff Marple | Director of Innovation for the Legal Department, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Kyle Martin | Manager of Legal Operations and Legal Counsel, Yahoo!

Jason Marty | Global Director of Operations, Baker & McKenzie

Keith Maziarek | Senior Director of Client Value, Perkins Coie

Jennifer McCarron | Product Owner, Spotify

Karen Johnson-McKewan | Partner, Orrick

Brendan McInerney | Manager, Legal Project Management Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Tracy McMahon | Director – Legal Operations, DaVita, Inc.

Conor Miller | Senior Vice President- Corporate Transaction Services, Axiom

Kevin Moore | Chief Security Officer, Fenwick & West LLP

David Moran | Senior Director of Product Management for Legal Analytics, ELM Solutions

Cole Morgan | VP, Enterprise Legal Management Solutions, Onit

Karen Murakami | Legal Operations Analyst, Yahoo!

Mike Naughton | Senior Manager, Legal Shared Solutions, Cisco

Ellen Nendorf | Sales Consultant, Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker (formerly Serengeti Tracker)

Paul Nicandri | Chief Service Delivery Officer, DLA Piper

Ian Nolan | Founder and CEO, Brightflag

Mary Shen O’Carroll | Head of Legal Operations, Technology and Strategy, Google Inc.

Christina O’Connell | Program Director and General Manager, ThinkSmart

Tom Orrison | Director of Legal Procurement, Microsoft

Jason Parkman | Chief Executive Officer, Mitratech

Andrew Perlman | Dean and a Professor Of Law, Suffolk University Law School

Jeff Piper | Chief Customer Officer, SpringCM

Bill Piwonka | CMO, Exterro

Pratik Patel | VP Legal Business Solutions, Elevate Services, Inc.

Molly Tynan Perry | Chief Operating Officer – General Counsel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Michael Pisias | Operations Manager – Office of General Counsel,Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Bhaskar Ranade | Director, Legal Operations, Cisco

Dr. Larry Richard | Founder & Principal Consultant, LawyerBrain LLC

Jin Ro | VP of Analytics at Seal Software

Rob E. Robinson | Director of Business Development, DTI

Mark Ross | Global Head Legal Process Outsourcing, Integreon

Dan Ruderman| Business Development Manager, Strategic Consulting Group, LexisNexis

Mateo Sanchez |Legal Operations Manager, Uber

Kris Satkunas | Director Strategic Consulting, LexisNexis CounselLink

Damon Schramm | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Evine Live Inc.

Mick Sheehy | General Counsel of Finance Technology Innovation & Strategy, Telstra

Lizzie Shilliam | Sr. Director of Chief Administrative Office, The Hertz Corporation

Margie Sleboda

Margie Sleboda | Product Manager, Legal Analytics, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions

Josh Simko | Senior Counsel, Supply Chain and Enterprise Contract Management, Nike

Dawn Smith | Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at VMware

Jason Smith | Senior Director and Legal Counsel, Apttus

Mark Smolik | Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, DHL

Sonya Som | Partner, Major, Lindsey & Africa

Sylvie Stulic | Manager of Legal Operations and Litigation, Electronic Arts Inc.

Richard Susskind | Independent author & adviser to international law firms, national governments, and in-house legal departments

Caroline Sweeney | Global Director E-Discovery and Client Technology Services, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Michael Tominna | Director, Technology in Practice, DLA Piper

Katherine Treadwell | Principal Business Intelligence Consultant, InterWorks, Inc.

John Tredennick | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Catalyst

Gary Tully | Director of Legal Operations, Gilead Science

Yuka Tzavaras |Senior Manager, Legal Operations, Electronic Arts Inc.

Thane Vallette |Associate General Counsel, HP Inc.

Ram Vasudevan |Chief Executive Officer, QuisLex

Nathan Wenzel

Nathan Wenzel | Founder and CEO, SimpleLegal

Scott Westfahl | Professor of Practice and Faculty Director, Harvard Law School Executive Education

Christina Wojcik | VP of Legal Services, Seal Software

Joe Woods | Sr. Practice Group Business Manager, Perkins Coie LLP

Rebecca Yoder | Director of Legal Technology, Accenture LLP

Mark Yacano | Global Practice Leader, Managed Legal Services, Major, Lindsey & Africa

Daniel Yi | Senior Counsel for Innovation, Department of Justice – Civil Rights Division

Cecilia Yoshida | Manager, Legal Operations, Yahoo!