Danielle V. Brooks is a Director in Consilio’s Global Revenue Organization supporting the Financial Services Vertical. In her role as the vertical’s chief of staff, she coordinates and helps drive multiple knowledge sharing initiatives to include exclusive client-centered events and monthly communications that keep our clients informed on the latest developments in both their industry and ours. She also provides relationship management and team coordination across thousands of eDiscovery and document review matters. In addition to her main responsibilities, Danielle is an active member of the Client Experience and Diversity and Inclusion leadership committees. She also serves as a co-chair of Consilio’s first established affinity group, The Black Responsiveness Affinity Group (B.R.A.G.) and participates in the company’s summer internship program.

Katie is a senior eDiscovery Counsel and Regional Vice President at Consilio. She has extensive experience assisting corporate legal departments and law firms with eDiscovery and needs that arise from complex litigation. She has resided in the legal tech industry for over a decade, assisting clients with solutions at the crossroads of legal and tech. Prior to joining Consilio, Katie led and help build the managed review practice as Director of Delivery at Special Counsel. She frequently managed matters that obtained significant data volumes and conducted complex reviews of 100+ attorneys. Katie is the founder of the Women in eDiscovery – Miami chapter and remains on the board. Before entering the practice of law, she worked at France’s largest national bank, BNP Paribas in New York City structuring products and alternative investments in the equity derivatives department. Katie is fluent in Spanish, is a University of Florida graduate, and a Pennsylvania State University School of Law alum.

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James has been with Consilio since 2016 and is a Senior Director in the Digital Forensics and Expert Services (DFES) group.  James’ role at Consilio involves the leadership and oversight of the Chicago and Mid-Atlantic/D.C digital forensic and eDiscovery teams, creation and monitoring compliance of defensible processes and procedures relating to digital forensics and eDiscovery, managing high profile and/or highly complex collections for litigation matters, supervising forensic analysis and examinations, and providing expert services via testimony or consulting.  James is actively involved with our CLE and speaking programs and conducts training for internal and external clients.

James began his career in the Digital Forensics space in 2003, while working at the Avis Budget Group.  There, he learned to forensically image various types of media and equipment, and working with the Human Resources and Legal partners, conduct internal employee investigations.  James grew the role to include internal eDiscovery efforts and helped create and shape internal policies and best practices.  James worked on dozens of investigations while working for Avis and partnered with local and federal law enforcement agencies when necessary to provide evidence and investigation history. James worked in this role until 2011.

In 2011 James joined the parent company of Lexis Nexus, Reed Elsevier, as the “Senior eDiscovery IT Liaison”.  His role here was to facilitate eDiscovery requests by creating partnerships within the various organizations and business units of Reed Elsevier, use his forensic skillset to aid in unauthorized access or “breach” events, and perform internal investigation work as directed by the Global Compliance team. 

In addition to his day-to-day work, James also presents CLE classes and webinars on behalf of Consilio covering a variety of eDiscovery and forensic topics.

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Xavier Diokno is a Senior Vice President at Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review and legal consulting services.

Xavier Diokno has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Southern Illinois University, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a juris doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law. He is licensed to practice in the state of Illinois and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Xavier worked in the information technology industry for ten years in database administration and software development. For more than a decade, Xavier was part of Consilio’s Data Analytics group, where he oversaw the team’s tripling in size, as well as numerous large-scale projects involving Technology Assisted Review, Immediate Case Assessments™, and novel analytics research. Xavier now applies his technical and legal experience to overseeing Consilio’s Innovation initiatives, including researching new technologies like artificial intelligence and developing their application to legal services.

Representative engagements include:

• Served as main analytics point of contact for several AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 corporations
• Managed projects involving predictive coding and responding to government second requests

Andrew is a Senior Director in the Legal Operations Consulting/Law Department Management team, helping in-house legal teams improve their efficiency and performance. He focuses on strategy, organisational design, change management and the selection and implementation of legal technologies.

Andrew was a founder member of the Banking Legal Technology (“BLT”) group, the Legal IT Innovators Group (“LITIG”) and the “KMIT” in-house legal group and is an active member of the Knowledge Management Committee of the Society for Computers and Law. Having worked closely with the LEDES Oversite Committee (“LOC”) to produce the international version of their eBilling standard and pioneer the use of matter management and eBilling in the UK, he is on the Board of the LOC. Andrew is also currently on the Advisory Board of the Association of Corporate Counsel ("ACC") Europe Legal Operations Group and has been on the judging panel for a number of legal awards.

Isabel joined Consilio as part of the inaugural CSAP class and joined Consilio because of the growth in the industry and the company culture Consilio has achieved. Isabel also has a background in building client relationships and saw that her talents could be used in the legal services space.

Before Consilio, Isabel worked for a staffing firm building and maintaining client relationships and recruiting talent for a variety of industries. Isabel also went to the University of Alabama where she obtained her M.B.A. focusing in strategy. While in graduate school Isabel was an instructor for the university teaching a business communication course to undergraduate business students.

Currently, Isabel is working in the ELS rotation of the CSAP program prospecting for whitespace and dormant accounts to educate clients on LOD, a Consilio company and the advantages that come along with using flexible legal talent within corporations.  

Jane is a former practicing litigation attorney. For the past 12 years, Jane has successfully worked with corporate in-house legal departments and law firms to design and implement legally defensible and cost-effective processes for collection, processing, managed review review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI) utilizing AI technology. Additionally, Jane assists her clients with non-litigious legal data initiatives, including M&A Due Diligence, Data Privacy, Cyber Security, Government and Internal Investigations, Bankruptcy, and Contracts Review.

At Consilio, Jane is responsible for managing relationships with a portfolio of strategic accounts spanning numerous highly regulated industries. In addition, she is responsible for driving the use of value- based business development strategies specific to the Pharmaceutical vertical.  Jane draws upon her litigation experience and her years of industry experience put her clients’ needs first.

Ben Hengels is a Director of Business Development at Consilio, a global leader in Legal Consulting & Legal Services.

Based in Chicago, IL, Ben brings a decade of experience in the legal industry, serving in various roles from Sales to Product Management and Implementation to Marketing. With expertise in legal tech software and professional services for Legal, IT, Risk, and Cybersecurity, Ben establishes credibility and trust for his clients who are working to improve existing processes, build defensible practices, and operationalize innovation.

Throughout his career, Ben has consistently partnered with large Fortune 500 companies, health systems, and law firms, providing innovative solutions tailored to their specific needs. By leveraging a deep network and understanding of the legal landscape, Ben has helped organizations automate existing operations, reduce unnecessary spend, and mitigate risk. By staying at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technology, he has consistently positioned clients for success in a constantly evolving legal landscape.

Ben specializes in supporting legal hold, in-place preservation, forensic collection, software implementation and migration, as well as a variety of legal matters including Commercial Litigation, Antitrust, Internal Investigations, Product Liability, and Government Investigations.

Dominique is a qualified attorney, bringing almost 15 years of comprehensive legal experience in the field of commercial law. Throughout her career, she has worked extensively with in-house legal teams, providing strategic guidance on optimizing and improving legal processes. Her primary focus has been on contract lifecycle management (CLM), where she has successfully streamlined operations to enhance efficiency and drive better outcomes.

Dominique’s expertise is not only grounded in her legal knowledge but also in her deep understanding of process management and project management. Over the years, she has played a pivotal role in the design and execution of several CLM implementations, guiding clients through the complexities of integrating advanced legal technologies into their workflows. Her ability to blend legal acumen with process optimization has made her an invaluable asset in driving successful rollouts, ensuring that organizations can leverage these solutions to meet their broader business objectives.

As the Global Head of Cyber Response Solutions and senior member of Consilio’s Client Services team, James focuses on helping clients and their counsel develop and implement effective strategies when impacted by data privacy and cyber incidents.

With 15+ years of legal, eDiscovery, and cyber response experience, James has consulted on and managed highly complex engagements for clients across a range of industries including the financial, insurance, and technology sectors.  As the Global Head for Consilio’s Cyber Response service offering, James uses this expertise to assist clients impacted by a range of privacy and cyber incidents including Business Email Compromise, Ransomware, and Data Exfiltration. Working hand in hand with clients, their breach counsel, and cyber forensic firms, James and his team offer clients a range of services when responding to an incident including data collection and hosting, analytics-driven data mining, document review, and notification report generation. James’ team leverages Consilio’s global footprint, allowing the team to provide services in jurisdictions across the world while ensuring clients are complying with local privacy regulations.

Additionally, James is an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Law where he teaches a course on Electronic Discovery. He is also a frequent speaker and panel moderator on topics relating to data privacy, cyber incident response, and eDiscovery.

James received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Business Administration and his law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston Salem, NC. He is based in North Carolina and has maintained an active license to practice law there since 2007.

Drew Macaulay is a Managing Director of Consilio, a global leader in Legal Consulting & Legal Services.

“Drew is Consilio’s primary subject matter expert in cross-border litigation, regulatory and internal investigations. Drew has particular expertise with multi-jurisdictional anti-corruption/bribery/FCPA and cartel investigations involving the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.

Over the last nine years, Drew has led projects for Consilio clients in more than 20 countries.  In addition to client project work, Drew has management responsibility for Consilio’s UK offices.

Areas of expertise:

• Multijurisdictional investigations and litigation
• Regulatory and internal investigation management
• Multilingual eDisclosure and document review projects
• European data privacy legislation
• Computer forensic investigations
• Complex preservation and data collection exercises

Susan L. Marin, CRM/CIGO, PMP is a Senior Consulting Manager and is part of Consilio’s Advisory Services team. Susan has 22 years of litigation, information governance, records management, and legal hold experience.

As a subject matter expert in records and information governance, Susan is committed to helping clients understand the importance of proper data governance. Along with the development of strategic records and information governance programs, Susan collaborates with clients to ensure her work will not only meet but exceed her client’s needs and expectations.

Prior to joining Consilio, Susan served as Vice President and Corporate Information Manager for a national bank where Susan developed a records and information management program from the initial phase to a maturity level where retention event-based and non-event-based labels and policies were implemented in Microsoft 365 for Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. As part of the policy development process, Susan utilized stakeholder interviews to understand the business and technical requirements to implement appropriate risk and legal avoidance strategies. Susan also onboarded and managed the implementation of a third-party application to ensure the corporate retention schedule had real-time, attorney reviewed citations for legal and regulatory requirements. Susan also led many projects to reduce the bank’s legal and financial risks including working with the records coordinators to remediate hard copy and digital records.

From working with stakeholders to understand technical and business requirements to participation in the request for proposal and final vendor selection phases, Susan uses her Project Management Professional (PMP) certification to assist with the implementation of legal matter management, legal hold, and document management systems.

With expertise in the use of change management techniques and a foundation of corporate records and information management experience, Susan advised and counseled a Michigan non-profit organization in the creation of their information governance procedures and processes to establish a legal, defensible, and repeatable process. This engagement included tasks such as the development of surveys/questionnaires for the data owners, creation of their information and records management policies and procedures, and updates to other policies with record and information management implications.

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Peter leads Consilio’s Financial Services Vertical (FSV) focusing on managing the business relationship with multinational financial services clients. Under his leadership, Consilio has built its practice to support all 15 of the top 15 global investment banks and over 100 other financial services firms.

Peter conceived Consilio’s Financial Services Vertical to facilitate knowledge sharing and process continuity across global financial institutions that are subject to a comparable regulatory framework and litigation exposure. Today, the FSV is actively supporting the largest global investment banks across North America, Europe, India, China, and Japan. The confluence of regulatory requirements, data systems, encryption standards, and information security considerations expose the industry to a unique set of challenges that have consistent themes across financial institutions.  Further, the global nature of these organizations brings in data privacy, secrecy, and other regional considerations.

Peter’s objective is for the FSV to aggregate and distribute the value of Consilio’s collective expertise supporting these clients’ over 50,000+ engagements and bring to bear actionable intelligence and best practices in the engagements we are supporting today and into the future. Some of these include Off-Channel Communications related investigations, multi-bank underwriter litigations, departed employee/financial advisor protocols, Data Subject Access Requests, cross border matters, as well as an expansive array of regulatory exams and internal investigations. Through consolidation of this expertise, the FSV endeavors to create a highly differentiated client expertise founded on the FSV theme, Powered by Knowledge.

Brent is responsible for day-to-day relationship management of many of Consilio’s largest and most important corporate and law firm clients. Drawing on 20 years of experience, Brent works closely with clients on a wide range of discovery issues and building scalable discovery and legal operations programs.

An additional responsibility and focus is leadership of Consilio's Insurance Vertical. Brent leads a team aligned on delivering tailored services to Consilio’s Insurance Industry clients, including both carriers, brokers and their law firms.  As a trusted adviser internally and to Consilio’s insurance industry clients, Brent translates complex, technical subjects to actionable insights for legal, claims and compliance teams.   

Brent's emphasis is on account management and service delivery, improving the efficiency of all aspects of the EDRM process, and client relationship management coupled with employee retention and growth. Brent works closely with Consilio's GRO and SCS teams to help build continuity across Consilio's teams and to strengthen our knowledge sharing to benefit our clients and their engagement needs.

In the litigation technology field since 2006, Jeff has extensive experience in all phases of electronic data discovery and digital forensics. With more than sixteen years of progressive consulting experience, Jeff has assisted both law firms and corporations with the management of requests for electronically stored information on a variety of matters including, but not limited to, Department of Justice Investigations, FTC Second Requests, Internal Investigations, Regulatory Requests, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Commercial Litigation and General Business/Employment Litigation.

With a constant goal of supplying excellent customer service, Jeff consistently provides successful Legal Operations and eDiscovery strategies and solutions. Corporations and law firms domestically as well as internationally rely on Jeff for his adept project handling, strategic consulting, and desire to continually drive down costs.

With over two decades of experience in electronic discovery, Chiara Vega is a seasoned professional specializing in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions for law firms and corporate clients. She has guided organizations through complex litigation and investigations leveraging deep expertise in data management, technology-assisted review (TAR), and defensible workflows.

Chiara is adept at bridging the gap between legal and technical teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and optimal outcomes. She has worked on cases involving high-stakes disputes, cross-border investigations, and data privacy concerns, consistently delivering results that meet stringent legal and regulatory requirements.

Throughout her career, Chiara has built a reputation for staying at the forefront of eDiscovery trends, including advancements in artificial intelligence and data analytics. Chiara also advises on information governance strategies to mitigate risk and enhance organizational efficiency.

A trusted advisor and thought leader, Chiara Vega is dedicated to helping clients navigate the evolving eDiscovery landscape with precision, integrity, and strategic insight.

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