EDRM has created a non-governing global advisory council composed of contributors, lawyers, judges, in-house counsel, and other legal professionals to help guide the organization’s ongoing projects and planning.
The EDRM Global Advisory Council includes:
- Hon. Judge Xavier Rodriguez, US district judge, WD-TX, US
- Hon. Judge Gary Jones, federal magistrate, US ND FL (ret.), US
- Hon. Ron Hedges, senior counsel, Dentons, federal magistrate, US NJ (ret.), US
- Farrah Pepper, chief legal innovation counsel, Marsh & McLennan Companies, US
- Eric Lieber, former director of legal operations and litigation support, Toyota Motors NA, US
- Melinda Vaughn, associate director and marketing manager, Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School, US
- Richard Spenner, SVP, head of legal and compliance operations, head of enterprise litigation at Lincoln Financial Group, US
- Jennifer Coleman, shareholder, Hopkins & Carley, US
- Avi Benayoun, shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, US
- Brad Harris, VP of product, Hanzo, US
- Tim Opsitnick, EVP and general counsel, TCDI, US
- Michael Hamilton, director of marketing, Exterro, US
- Vikram Masson, VP of strategic accounts, UnitedLex, US
- Ben Barnett, partner, Dechert, US
- Constantine Pappas, senior manager, Relativity, US
- Johannes Scholtes, chief strategy officer, ZyLAB, the Netherlands
- Maura Grossman, research professor, director of Women in Computer Science, University of Waterloo and e-discovery lawyer, Canada
- Andrew Haslam, eDisclosure project manager, Squire Patton Boggs, UK
- Tara Emory, director of consulting, Driven, Inc., US
- Debbie Reynolds, CEO and chief data privacy officer, Debbie Reynolds Consulting, US
- Sheila Grela, litigation paralegal, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLC, US
- Caroline Sweeney, director of knowledge management and innovation, Dorsey & Whitney, US
- Ilse Grobler, general counsel and chief administrative officer, Lextrado and Cyanre, South Africa
- Bill Hamilton, executive director, UF Law E-Discovery Project and ICAIR, US
- Suzanne Clark, discovery counsel, eDiscovery CoCounsel, pllc, US
- Robin Stewart, partner and chair of e-discovery practice group, Kutak Rock, US
- John Tredennick, founder, Merlin Legal Open Source Foundation, US
- Scott Petz, member, Dickinson Wright PLLC, US
- Ian Campbell, president/CEO, iCONECT, Canada
- Shannon Bales, litigation support, Munger Tolles & Olsen, US
- Amie Taal, consultant, Stratagem Tech Solutions Ltd., UK
- Lilith Bat-Leah, director of data science, Fronteo USA
- Eric Mandel, consultant, Driven, Inc., US
- TracyAnn Eggen, managing e-discovery solutions for enterprise-wide litigation and investigation, Dignity Health, US
- Jessica Robinson, CEO, PurePoint International, US
- Inés Rubio Alcalá-Galiano, head of information management and incident response, British Standards Institute, Ireland
- Beth Patterson, founder/consultant, ESPConnect, Australia
- Chris Dale, founder, eDisclosure Information Project, UK
- Crystal O’Donnell, CEO, Heuristica Discovery Counsel, Canada
- Hon. Judge James Francis IV (ret.), mediator, arbitrator, JAMS, US
- Hon. Judge J. Michelle Childs, US District SC, US
- Hon. Judge Andrew Peck (ret.), senior counsel, DLA Piper US
- John Pappas, consultant, OpenText, US
- Cash Butler, founder, ClariLegal, US
- Jonathan Hiroshi Rossi, founder, The CJK Group and Saya University, US & Japan
- Amy Juers, MBA, CEO, Edge Legal Marketing, US
- Conor Looney, CEO, LDM Global, US
- Ralph Losey, partner, Jackson Lewis, US
- Bill Speros, principal, William Speros, US
- Eric Sedwick, Director, Head of Records Management, TIAA, US
- Bob Lorum, CMO, Xact Data Discovery, US
- Pavan Kotha, eDiscovery lead, Clayton Utz, Australia
- Martin Nikel, eDiscovery & Investigations, Switzerland
- Eloy Rizzo Neto, partner, Demarest Advogados, Brazil & Latin America
- Aliya Fathima, senior forensics, KPMG, India
- Judy Selby, partner, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, US
- Tiana Van Dyk, director of client solutions, EPIQ, Canada
- Phil Verdelho, senior IT, eDiscovery, operations & services director, UBS, US
- Shahaf Rozanski, head of private sector unit, Cellebrite, Israel
- Deborah Spellen, VP eDiscovery, Info Gov, JPMorgan Chase & Co., US
- Jason Velasco, consultant, US
- Doug Austin, VP of professional services, CloudNine, US
- Doug Kaminski, chief revenue officer, Cobra Legal Solutions, US
- Will O’Brien, director cybersecurity & forensics, PwC Ireland
- Dr. Antonio Pooe, partner, LexTrado & Exactech, South Africa
- Paula Fearon, head of project services, McCann FitzGerald, Ireland
- Cat Casey, chief innovation officer, DISCO, US
- Marnie Carter, head of eDiscovery, Starwood Property Trust, US
- David Yerich, director of eDiscovery, UnitedHealth Group, US
- Dennis Kennedy, president & general counsel, Dennis Kennedy Advisory Services, LLC, US
- Jay Yelton, partner, Warner Norcross + Judd, LLP, US
- Martin Tully, partner & co-founder, Actuate Law LLC, US
Special positions are held by Tom Gelbmann and George Socha, Founder-Advisors. Craig Ball is EDRM’s General Counsel and David Greetham is Executive Advisor. (Updated with the additions of 03/05/2020.)
