Speakers
- Shahzad Bashir, Vice President, Legal Consulting and Southwest Region, HURON CONSULTING GROUP
- J. Eric Bartko, Resource Manager, BZ resources a Bartko Zankel Company
- John Ben Blackburn, Assistant General Counsel, Martin Midstream Partners, L.P.
- Jessica Blazer, Senior Privacy Counsel, CHEVRON CORP.
- Stephanie Bragg, Chief Litigation Counsel, HALLIBURTON
- Michael R. Brooks, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, CVR ENERGY
- Craig Carpenter, Vice President and General Counsel, RECOMMIND Inc.
- Raja Chatterjee, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
- Ron Chichester, Associate General Counsel, ACCESSDATA
- Alistair Dawson, Partner, BECK REDDEN & SECREST
- Blain Edwards, Associate General Counsel, B.J. SERVICES COMPANY
- Jake Frazier, MBA, Esq, Director: Compliance and eDiscovery Practice, EMC Corporation
- Jeremy J. Gaston, Partner, PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN
- Andrew Goodman, Executive Director of Litigation Services, QuisLex
- Jack C. Halprin, Vice President, eDiscovery and Compliance, AUTONOMY
- Carla Herron, World Wide Head of Litigation, SHELL
- Dan Junk, Esq., Vice President, Business Development, STOREDIQ
- Jeffrey A. Kaplan, Assistant General Counsel, CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY
- Brian H. Karney, Chief Operating Officer, ACCESSDATA CORPORATION
- Sylvia Kerrigan, Assistant General Counsel, MARATHON OIL COMPANY
- Liane Komagome, Director, Information Management, EPCO INC
- Robert Levy, Counsel - Litigation, EXXONMOBIL CORPORATION
- Daniel Lim, Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel, GUIDANCE SOFTWARE, INC.
- Wayne C. Matus, Partner and National E-Discovery Leader, PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN
- John McLeod, Manager, Professional Services, GUIDANCE SOFTWARE INC.
- Russell Miller, Senior Counsel, ANADARKO PETROLEUM COMPANY
- Deana G. Uhl, Supervisor, Legal Applications, MARATHON OIL COMPANY
- James Neath, Assistant General Counsel, BP
- Peter Pepiton II, Esq., eDiscovery Solutions Director, CA, Inc.
- James S. Powell, Group Security Global Digital Investigation Advisor,BP
- Honorable Irma C. Ramirez, United States Magistrate Judge, U.S. DISTRICT COURT, NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
- Dave Rogers, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young
- Joy Saphla, Managing Director, HURON CONSULTING GROUP
- Randy Segotta, IT Strategy, Planning & Architecture Manager, SHELL
- Ken Sewell, Manager, Legal Technology, ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
- Eric Shirk, Principal - eDiscovery and Digital Forensics Practice, UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc.
- Tom Sikora, Senior Counsel, EL PASO CORPORATION
- David A. Speringo, JD, C.C.E, ACE Senior Consultant, ACCESSDATA
- Russell Stalters, Head Information and Records Architecture, BP AMERICA INC.
- Daniel Torpey, Partner, Ernst & Young
- Vincent Walden, Senior Manager, Ernst & Young
- Laurie Weiss, Partner, FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI
- Carter J. White, Ph.D., Senior Counsel, M-I SWACO
- Bob Wilkinson, Global Information Security Manager, BAKER HUGHES, INC.
- Alexander G. Arato, Vice President and Associate General Counse, CA Inc.
- Florinda Baldridge, Global Director of Practice Support, FULBRIGHT & JAWORKSI
Jessica Blazer
Senior Privacy Counsel
Chevron Corporation
Jessica Blazer is the Senior Privacy Counsel at Chevron, responsible for supporting and providing counsel on compliance with privacy laws and policies across the enterprise. Jessica assists with Chevron's efforts to implement and obtain approval of BCRs; reviews, negotiates, and drafts privacy provisions for contracts; and provides training to her colleagues and clients on how global data privacy laws impact and affect Chevron operations.
Prior to joining Chevron, Jessica served as counsel at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Aetna, after beginning her career in the New York law firms of Moses & Singer LLP and Tenzer Greenblatt LLP. At Wyeth, she was Senior Attorney in the Global Privacy Office, where she drafted and supported implementation of global policies and spearheaded Safe Harbor certification for the clinical research and pharmacovigilance activities.
Jessica is a graduate of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she served on the Cardozo Law Review, and the University of Texas at Austin.
J. Eric Bartko
Resource Manager
BZ resources a Bartko Zankel Company
As Resource Manager, Mr. Bartko brings his knowledge of management in Asia to enhance BZresources' proven document review teams. By combining BZr's ability to use multiple software tools to constantly cull down the data for review, and marry this with a highly scalable offshore review staff, Mr. Bartko enables BZr to deliver the quality that litigation requires within the cost and time requirements of clients. Mr. Bartko studied finance at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, holds a Master of Arts in Asian Studies from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Mr. Bartko is a member of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.
Raja Chatterjee
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley
Raja is the Global Head of the Anti-Corruption Group in the Legal and Compliance Division at Morgan Stanley. Raja created the Anti-Corruption Group and implemented policies and procedures to provide guidance to the Firm on compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and relevant anti-corruption laws and regulations around the world. Raja advises both legal and business colleagues on transactional issues involving state-owned or controlled entities. He regularly conducts and evaluates anti-corruption due diligence for business intermediaries and investment transactions considered by the Firm. Raja is actively involved in a variety of firm-wide compliance initiatives including a global business conflicts review, cross-border legal survey, and training programs on a variety of subjects.
Prior to this position, Raja worked in the Litigation Department, primarily on regulatory and law enforcement matters globally and across the Firm's business lines. In the Litigation Department, Raja was also involved in formulating policies, procedures and training, as well as advising on various legal and regulatory issues, including the FCPA, internal investigations, and insider trading.
Raja joined Morgan Stanley in January 2005 as a member of the Firm's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Group. During his time in the AML Group, Raja was directly involved in the Firm's suspicious activity reporting and global OFAC compliance efforts. He supervised FinCen reporting and was the Group's primary liaison with law enforcement authorities.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Raja was a prosecutor for ten years, most recently at the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section, in Washington, DC. Raja also served as an Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney's Office. During the course of his career, Raja has prosecuted a wide variety of cases ranging from violent offenses to sophisticated white-collar crimes. Raja has also worked extensively with the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and other regulatory and law enforcement agencies, both in the U.S. and overseas.
Andrew Goodman
Executive Director of Litigation Services
QuisLex
Andrew has over twelve years' experience managing and supervising large, complex litigation and regulatory document reviews in industries including oil/gas, telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, and consumer products. He has trained large teams on document review and creating privilege logs. He spearheads QuisLex's litigation training programs and manages key aspects of QuisLex's client and vendor relationships. Andrew received his JD/MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BA with honors from the University of Michigan.
Carla Herron
World Wide Head of Litigation
Shell Oil Company
Carla Herron is responsible for litigation risk strategies, regulatory and financial legal contingency processes (reserving/reporting/disclosure), and specific significant litigation/disputes for Royal Dutch/Shell (RDS) group of companies worldwide. She is also responsible for significant US litigation and discovery management, leading a team of 27 in-house attorneys (including three senior managers and three team leads), 30 paralegals, project managers, and administrative assistants, contract staff, and 100+ external firms.
Joy Saphla
Managing Director
Huron Consulting Group
Joy has over 15 years of experience in strategic and operational consulting. Her area of concentration is assisting companies in improving their business performance by providing strategic management consulting, process improvement, and technology-related solutions. Joy's expertise includes organizational assessment, design and transformation; risk management; change management; value creation; financial management; performance management; process improvement; and electronic collaboration.
She has assisted companies to achieve higher operational effectiveness at lower overall cost while enhancing risk management. Her experience spans across industries including pharmaceutical, healthcare, automobile, energy, technology, retail, airline, manufacturing, distribution, chemical, and finance. Projects included organization assessment, process reviews, technology assessments, outside counsel management, internal resource optimization, risk management programs, financial analysis, performance measurement, and implementation of new processes and tools resulting from recommendations.
Joy has contributed her expertise to articles published in the Corporate Legal Times and The Executive Lawyer, and has published White Papers in association with ILTA.
Stephanie Bragg
Chief Litigation Counsel
HALLIBURTON
Deana G. Uhl
Supervisor, Legal Applications
MARATHON OIL COMPANY
Deana Galloway Uhl leads the Discovery Management Team within the Law Organization which consists of a dynamic team of litigation support analysts and hold order administration staff who are developing, implementing and managing processes and tools around electronically stored information and litigation holds for Marathon. Before joining Marathon, Deana was the firmwide litigation support manager for Baker Botts, L.L.P. With over 16 years of litigation support experience, Deana has managed and consulted on large discovery projects, legal discovery process.
David A. Speringo, JD, C.C.E
ACE Senior Consultant
ACCESSDATA
With 10 years of experience in the e-discovery sector as a practicing attorney, electronic discovery consultant, and computer forensic specialist, David serves as a senior consultant on staff with AccessData. Prior to joining AccessData, David has held senior level management and consulting positions at both ends of the e-discovery spectrum: within a law firm and at a national e-discovery litigation support company. Within these roles he has taught classes providing continuing legal education for attorneys and has been a guest speaker at several legal conferences on the topics of litigation support technologies, best practices, and litigation technology cost management.
Within the forensic world, David is a certified computer examiner (C.C.E) and has led forensic teams on the investigative acquisition and analysis of data for clients composed of several AMLAW 100 firms and Fortune 500 companies over the past 7 years.
He received his B.A in Political Science/History from the University of Connecticut in 1997, and his law degree (J.D) from Roger Williams Law School in 2000.
Jeffrey A. Kaplan
Assistant General Counsel
CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY
Mr. Kaplan is an Assistant General Counsel with Chevron Phillips Chemical Company. His group is responsible for the company's global litigation and the legal support for its environmental, health & safety, human resources, and global procurement organizations. Mr. Kaplan received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and his B.A. from Amherst College.
He is a former Director of the Texas General Counsel Forum.
Peter Pepiton II, Esq.
eDiscovery Solutions Director
CA, Inc.
Pete Pepiton is the eDiscovery Solutions Director in CA’s Information Governance suite. The core mission of CA’s eDiscovery capabilities is to empower the corporate legal department to retake control of its electronic discovery. Pete joined CA through the iLumin acquisition where he managed the Data Migration and Discovery Services practice and ran business development for the legal channel.
Pete brings 15 years of experience in delivering professional services to CA, both as a former practicing attorney and at several document management companies. He has spent much of that time helping to reengineer the way lawyers use technology to achieve greater efficiency and better results in litigation.
Pete is a member of The Sedona Conference®, a think tank dedicated to education and dialogue surrounding eDiscovery issues. He is also the CA point representative on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, a project aimed at generating guidance through the maze of managing an electronic discovery project. He is a frequent speaker and author on Information Governance and specifically its beneficial effects on eDiscovery.
Pete is a member of the Louisiana State and American Bar associations. He received his JD from Louisiana State University Law School and a BS in Accounting from LSU as well.
Jake Frazier MBA, Esq
Director: Compliance and eDiscovery Practice
EMC Corporation
Jake Frazier, Esq. is Director of Compliance and eDiscovery Practice for EMC. Mr. Frazier is a member of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 and a founding member of the EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model). Frazier has consulted on hundreds of complex e-discovery cases and has authored several matter specific e-discovery protocols for use by adverse parties and judges, as well as working with clients at FRCP 26(f) "meet and confers". He has authored dozens of articles on eDiscovery and Compliance in publications such as Digital Discovery & Electronic Evidence, Litigation Support Today, and Compliance Solutions Advisor. Most recently, Frazier authored a booklet entitled Bringing eDiscovery in-house for Dummies and was technical editor on "eDiscovery for Dummies". Prior to joining EMC, Frazier was VP of Sales and Marketing at RenewData, an eDiscovery consulting firm.
Frazier received a bachelor's degree in psychology from The University of Cincinnati, a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University. He is also a member of the Arizona State Bar and has received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award for Advocacy and the Willard H. Pedrick Scholar Award.
Randy Segotta
IT Strategy, Planning & Architecture Manager
SHELL
Randy Segotta is manager of global IT strategy, planning and architecture for Royal Dutch Shell's functions including legal, real estate, procurement, and corporate affairs. He has over 25 years of industry and consulting experience in oil & gas, primarily in downstream operations and the corporate functions. Recently Randy's work has focused on strategic portfolio management, solution architecture, and technology services to support eDiscovery and forensics investigations.
Alexander G. Arato
Vice President and Associate General Counse
CA Inc.
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.
Prior to joining CA, Mr. Arato was counsel to and associated with the firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in Los Angeles, California, where he represented clients in complex trade secret, product liability, contract, tort and class actions before federal and state courts. Prior to that, Alex was associated with the firms of Weinhart & Riley and Manatt Phelps & Phillips. 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.
Florinda Baldridge
Global Director of Practice Support
FULBRIGHT & JAWORKSI
Florinda joined Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P in 2000 as the Director of Practice Support, where she tapped into her 20 years of experience in the legal industry to build the Firm's global practice support organization. With a focus on strategic legal technology, client service and a consultative philosophy, Florinda built the Firm's practice support department from seven employees to its current strength of nearly sixty legal technologists across the nation.
A pioneer in the electronic discovery services arena, Florinda assembled a group of technology and litigation specialists, developed standard protocols and procedures, and deployed a project management methodology to support the Firm's lawyers and its clients in complex electronic discovery. Instrumental in launching the firm's Electronic Discovery Committee, Florinda provides electronic discovery consulting services to lawyers and clients in governmental enforcement and regulatory investigations, product liability, antitrust, and other complex litigation matters. She is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout the country on a broad range of topics, including, records and information management, emerging legal technology, document review considerations, and process engineering and project management in eDiscovery. Florinda was named to the "Global Tech Top 100 Leaders as identified by a poll conducted by Citytech Magazines of law firms, vendors, press and consultants in the industry."
John Ben Blackburn
Assistant General Counsel
MARTIN MIDSTREAM PARTNERS
John Ben Blackburn is Assistant General Counsel for Martin Midstream Partners LP, a publicly traded master limited partnership, and Martin Resource Management Corporation, a privately held diversified energy company, both headquartered in Kilgore, Texas. John Ben is responsible for overseeing the companies' commercial litigation and all of its E-discovery. As such, he has implemented an E-discovery program that has allowed the Martin Companies to streamline their responses to requests for production and subpoenas.
Prior to joining Martin, John Ben was associated with Beck Redden & Secrest in Houston, where his practice focused on complex commercial litigation and legal malpractice.
J.D., South Texas College of Law, summa cum laude
South Texas Law Review
Craig Carpenter
Vice President and General Counsel
RECOMMIND Inc.
Mr. Carpenter has extensive experience in the eDiscovery, enterprise software and information security industries, and is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. Mr. Carpenter is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco where he teaches graduate classes on content management, digital rights management (DRM) and high tech marketing.
Mr. Carpenter began his career as a corporate litigation attorney after receiving his JD and MBA from Santa Clara University and his BA in history and political science from UCLA.
Jeremy J. Gaston
Partner
PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN
Jeremy Gaston, a former U.S. Supreme Court clerk, is a litigation partner in the Houston office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Jeremy's practice primarily involves patent litigation and appellate litigation. His patent practice currently focuses on matters in the Eastern District of Texas, while his appellate practice, in recent years, has included arguments at the Second, Fifth, and Seventh Circuits, and the Texas Supreme Court. Jeremy's interest in eDiscovery stems from his computer science studies at Stanford and his work in management consulting at Bain & Co. Together, those experiences have led him to always look for new ways to make the practice of law both more efficient and more effective through the use of information technology.
Jack C. Halprin
Vice President, eDiscovery and Compliance
AUTONOMY
As Vice President, eDiscovery and Compliance with Autonomy, Jack Halprin serves as a subject matter expert and assists clients with building best practices and defensible processes around eDiscovery and compliance. Additionally, he manages the product line strategy for Autonomy's Legal Hold and Early Case Assessment solutions, speaks frequently on legal risk management, compliance, and eDiscovery, and has authored numerous articles on eDiscovery, legal hold, and knowledge management. He is actively involved in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) forum, leading the EDRM Metrics working group and participating in other working groups.
With a BA in Chemistry from Yale University, a JD from the University of California-Los Angeles, and certifications from the California, Connecticut, Virginia and Patent Bars, Mr. Halprin has varied expertise that lends itself well to both the legal and technical aspects of electronic discovery collection and preservation. Prior to joining Autonomy, Mr. Halprin was with Guidance Software as Senior Product Marketing Manager/Product Manager for eDiscovery. Prior to Guidance Software, Mr. Halprin served as Corporate Electronic Discovery Specialist with LexisNexis Applied Discovery and was a litigation associate at Santa Monica's Haight, Brown & Bonesteel.
Liane Komagome
Director, Information Management
EPCO INC
Ms. Komagome specializes in information risk management. She has significant experience implementing best practices for effective and efficient management of electronic information to mitigate corporate risks on behalf of companies such as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Ms. Komagome's areas of interest and expertise include protection of privacy rights, information security, optimization of business intelligence, data classification, regulatory retention requirements, records management, litigation preparedness, electronic discovery and disclosure of electronic evidence in international forums. Currently, Ms. Komagome is the Director of Information Management for EPCO, Inc. and the Enterprise Products family of companies here in Houston.
Robert Levy
Counsel - Litigation
EXXONMOBIL CORPORATION
Robert Levy recently joined ExxonMobil following a 23 year career in private practice, most recently 14 1/2 years as a litigation partner at Haynes and Boone in Houston Texas. Robert's career has focused on issues involving electronic discovery and large case management, including such projects as representing Exxon as a part of the pre-merger review of its merger with Mobil Corporation which at the time was one of the largest document and electronic review projects of its type.
Robert graduated from the University of Texas School of Law with Honors in 1986 and clerked for the Honorable Judge Robert Parker before he began his career as a litigator. He is an active member of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Discovery and also participated in the EDRM project. He is also active with the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program where he chairs the HVLP's Technology Committee.
He is Counsel at ExxonMobil where he advises on Electronic Discovery and Records Management Issues as part of the Litigation group in the Law Department
Daniel Lim
Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel
GUIDANCE SOFTWARE, INC.
Daniel Lim is a Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel for Guidance Software, Inc. Daniel consults with both corporate and public sector clients on eDiscovery and digital investigation issues. He speaks regularly on legal issues pertaining to electronically stored information and best practices in preparing for and responding to discovery requests.
Prior to joining Guidance Software, Daniel was an attorney at Jones Day, practicing commercial litigation and defending major energy companies in government investigations. As a member of the firm's eDiscovery committee, he oversaw the collection, review and production of electronically stored information.
Daniel is a graduate of Columbia Law School and former law clerk to the Honorable Vanessa Gilmore, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. He also practiced commercial litigation at Beck, Redden & Secrest and McGlinchey Stafford.
Wayne C. Matus
Partner and National E-Discovery Leader
PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN
Mr. Matus has more than 30 years of experience handling complex commercial and IP litigation. His practice focuses on security, privacy and electronic discovery, including litigation and counseling.
Mr. Matus is the National leader of our eDiscovery Practice. He is nationally ranked in Chambers USA (2009 edition) as a leading lawyer in Privacy & Data Security: E-Discovery. He is also a recipient of the 2009 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. Mr. Matus has significant first chair experience in jury and non-jury trials involving bankruptcy, intellectual property, contract and product liability on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. His extensive experience includes litigating trademark, copyright, and patent infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, domain name, contract, franchising and other disputes involving intellectual property. Mr. Matus is rated AV (highest rating) by Martindale Hubbell and is listed in both Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in America.
Russell Miller
Senior Counsel
ANADARKO PETROLEUM COMPANY
Russ Miller is Senior Counsel for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. He received his Bachelors' degree from the University of Texas in 1983, received his law degree from U.T. in 1987, and is still an avid Longhorn sports fan. He has been practicing as a litigator in Houston for 22 years: 11 years in private practice, where he was a partner in the Litigation Section of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon (a predecessor to the firm currently known as Locke, Lord, Liddell & Bissell), and 11 years in-house. Russ specializes in complex commercial litigation and class action litigation. He has defended lawsuits in which plaintiffs claimed hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, based upon allegations that spanned periods as long as 25 years, and he has been responsible for coordinating efforts to locate, preserve, and produce every slip of paper and every byte of data that could possibly be relevant to those claims. He has coordinated document preservation and discovery projects across multiple legacy systems of multiple predecessor entities in multiple states. He's made about every mistake that can be made in the area of legal holds and e-discovery, has learned from every one of them, and continues to learn every day.
Russ also serves as part of the team at Anadarko that establishes, reviews, and revises legal hold and e-discovery policies and procedures, and that evaluates the legal department's technology. He fields multiple phone calls from e-Discovery vendors daily, and empathizes with every lawyer who is trying to make sense of it all.
James Neath
Assistant General Counsel
BP
As Associate General Counsel, Litigation, James J. (Jim) Neath leads a team of 40 professionals, with lawyers and staff in the US and London responsible for managing BP's global upstream, downstream and corporate and divested business litigation. Before being appointed to this role in 2008, Jim served for three years as Assistant General Counsel for US Litigation when he managed a team of 35 staff who handled BP America Inc.'s full range of US litigation. Before the litigation posting, Jim spent two years as Assistant General Counsel - HSSE for BP America's Downstream & Corporate Legal Group in Warrenville, Illinois. In that role, Jim led a team of 16 attorneys and 10 paralegals responsible for providing environmental counseling, regulatory and litigation services to BP America's downstream businesses and for managing corporate environmental liabilities arising from BP's divested US businesses.
James S. Powell
Group Security Global Digital Investigation Advisor
BP
Jim joined Amoco in 1975 as a Purdue engineering graduate and held a variety Plant design and Engineering roles. In the 80's he spent 3 years as a Lead Auditor in Amoco's Finance Department where he handled functional audits and security-related investigations. He also worked Amoco Corporate Data Center as the IT Business Impact Manager and for the past 14 years he has held computer security roles in IT Global Operation, Digital Security and Group Security. In these positions he was responsible for the Global Content Filters and performed hundreds of Internet related Investigations.
Dave Rogers
Partner
ERNST & YOUNG
Dave a Senior Manager in Ernst & Young's Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services practice is an information technology professional with extensive experience in providing solutions to complex legal technology and business problems. For over ten years Dave has concentrated primarily in the investigation and litigation consulting area with emphasis on computer forensics and electronic discovery. He has worked with numerous multi-national corporations helping them navigate the complexities of the electronic discovery life cycle and implement policies and procedures to comply with preservation notices and legal holds in a cost effective manner.
Prior to his experience with Ernst & Young, Dave began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Forensic Technology Services practice where he assisted clients with electronic discovery and computer forensic needs. Dave's experience working with some of the largest companies in the world has exposed him to numerous technologies allowing him to quickly assess a client's current state and mission critical systems important to discovery.
Dave is a member of The Sedona Conference, Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He is an EnCase Certified Examiner as well as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. Additionally he received his BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ken Sewell
Manager, Legal Technology
ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
Ken has more than 10 years of experience managing litigation support and as a "30b6 witness". He has managed all areas of the Information Technology function for more than 20 years, and has extensive background in Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Management Science, Business Process Re-Engineering and Forensic data analysis as well as E-Discovery.
Ken has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Missouri, Rolla, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics at Harding University. He has also completed additional post-graduate studies in Statistics, Operations Research, Telecommunications, Business and Accounting at the University of Missouri, University of Houston, Harding University, and Southern Methodist University.
Eric Shirk
Principal - eDiscovery and Digital Forensics Practice
UHY ADVISORS FLVS, Inc.
Eric is a Principal and Technical Consultant with UHY Advisors FLVS, Inc. in the eDiscovery and Digital Forensics Practice Group. He is a seasoned technologist who holds multiple certifications in computer forensics and has served as an eDiscovery project manager for a global Fortune 10 organization. In addition to his litigation support experience, Eric benefits from having over a decade of experience in the information technology field.
Tom Sikora
Senior Counsel
EL PASO CORPORATION
Tom Sikora is Senior Counsel at El Paso Corporation with responsibility for international commercial and investment arbitration at El Paso Corporation. He also directs El Paso's E-Discovery practice. In addition, he co-heads El Paso's Enterprise Content Management Project tasked with selecting and implementing a corporate document management system. Tom currently serves as Vice Chair of the Corporate E-Discovery Forum, and is the former President of the Houston International Arbitration Club.
Tom was previously a lawyer with Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston, Texas, specializing in the international arbitration of energy industry disputes. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1995 where he was an Articles Review Board editor of the Virginia Law Review. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature from Harvard College.
Daniel Torpey
Partner
ERNST & YOUNG
Daniel Torpey is a Forensic Accountant, CPA and former auditor with over 22 years of Public Accounting experience. He is a partner with Ernst & Young and is the Americas Leader for the firms Forensic Technology Practice and a member of the leadership board for the Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services (FIDS) group. In his role Mr. Torpey oversees the data analysis and information gathering on some of the largest forensic investigations in the industry.
Prior to leading the Forensic Technology practice Mr. Torpey was the Americas Leader for the Insurance Claims Services Group which specializes in investigating and preparing large multi-million dollar property, liability fidelity and product liability claims. Torpey's experience ranges from measuring the impact of recalling the worldwide supply of genetically modified corn to quantifying the loss of a prototype rocket for a defense contractor to being the designated expert on the insurance disputes and valuing loss records resulting from terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the destruction of businesses in it. He continues to assist clients, law firms and brokers on a wide variety of forensic accounting issues in dealing with complex insurance claims. He recently completed an investigation of a CEO siphoning funds from an SEC registrant and through the use of Forensic Analytics was able to report his findings to the Audit Committee in a matter of days.
Mr. Torpey has been published in both Fraud Magazine and Internal Auditor as recently as August 2009 and is the co-author of "Accounting for Words: Text analytics is a promising new forensic technique for the internal auditor".
Also published or quoted in Business Insurance, National Underwriter, Claims Magazine, Best Review: Property and Casualty, Corporate Legal Times, The Dallas Morning News, and The Los Angeles Times, Mr. Torpey has helped clients in the US and abroad
Mr. Torpey has presented several times to the FBI's "Accountants in Training" program including instructing sessions at Quantico, Va. The FBI's training facility. He is a regular speaker at Annual Risk Insurance Management Society Conference including his last session titled "The Loss of Certainty Effect: How Risk Managers can Convey Assurance in an Uncertain Marketplace". He is the Co-author of the recent book, The Business Interruption Book: Coverage, Claims, and Recovery by The National Underwriter Company. Mr. Torpey is also and Expert Commentator for the International Risk Management Institute (IRMI.com). Mr. Torpey earned his B.S. in Accountancy at St. John's University, Jamaica, NY
Mr. Torpey has served as an expert witness, an arbitrator, an appraiser, has been sought out by both policyholders, insurance carriers, brokers and reinsurers to help in the resolution of claims.
Mr. Torpey is a member or associate member of the AICPA, NYSSCPA, Texas Society of CPA's, ARIAS, and RIMS. He serves on several not for profit boards and is a member of The Lumen Institute, an organization to help form leaders in business.
Vincent Walden
Senior Manager
ERNST & YOUNG
Vincent Walden is a Senior Manager specializing in forensic technology and anti-fraud analytics. With a focus on text analytics, forensic data mining and electronic discovery services, Vincent has over thirteen years of experience handling the information management and electronic discovery needs for large scale, complex litigations, investigations and proactive anti-fraud programs. Vincent is experienced with providing clients leading anti-fraud based innovation, research and analytics, including, Fraud Triangle analytics, link analysis, text data mining, and cluster analysis that seek to identify or predict fraud risk variables, data anomalies or data inefficiencies that can lead to unnecessary costs or enterprise risks.
Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Mr. Walden spent five years specializing in litigation technology supporting investigative and legal matters at another Big Four firm. Before that, he served as president and CEO of a privately funded Internet company, which was subsequently sold as well as a large accounting firm specializing in economic and dispute advisory services.
