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Mark is a Managing Director at Consilio, and has 25 years experience working with global clients, law firms and solution providers to address their most pressing Cybersecurity, eDiscovery, Information Governance and Data Privacy needs.

Leading Consilio’s Cyber Data Breach Solutions and Insurance Verticals Internationally, Mark draws on his past experience leading multidisciplinary teams to advise clients on the technical and workflow aspects of cyber data incidents, internal and regulatory investigations and commercial litigation, including relevant international privacy legislation and procedural rules.

As part of his role, Mark leads the strategic direction and engagement across Consilio’s international eco-system of Law Firm Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practices, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) firms, Insurance and technology providers; working with clients to ensure the speed, efficiency and accuracy of data mining and review processes to deliver timely and cost effective solutions.

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.

Oliver Bücken is a Regional Director in Germany for Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, and legal consulting services.

Oliver’s role is to consult clients in Germany and provide guidance through challenging scenarios. Oliver draws on his experience working for Relativity, providing guidance on complex & often multi-jurisdictional matters. With a background in Consultancy, he works with clients to develop processes that match the German requirements in matters involving the collection, processing, and review of large amounts of email and other electronic data.

Oliver has experience with clients in the public & private sectors as well as law firms, working across Antitrust, Competition, Cyber, and Cross-border litigation matters.

Megan has over 15 years of experience in the eDiscovery industry.

In her role as a Senior Director in the Strategic Client Solutions team, Megan provides a central point of contact for client support, reporting and relationship management. In addition, she helps manage product and services costs by providing expert advice and assistance, tailoring Consilio’s processes and identifying efficiencies and enforcing client quality standards against all projects. Megan supports some of the world’s largest financial institutions, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.

Prior to joining Consilio in December of 2019, Megan spent four years at Morgan Lewis Bockius LLP as an Associate in the eData Practice Group, partnering with in-house legal, IT and records management teams, as well as outside technology vendors, to provide start-to-finish litigation management.

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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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

With over 17 years of experience in the legal technology and legal services, Nathan has supported clients across the UK, USA and for the past 9 years, Hong Kong. As a Regional Director, Nathan has worked with many of the world’s top corporations and law firms, he has a wealth experience leading and building regional teams in addition to advising clients on all aspects of the eDiscovery workflow, including data collection, digital forensics, data processing/analytics, and document review.

Nathan has a track record in dealing with cross-border matters and well-versed in the unique challenges that arise when conducting multi-jurisdictional eDiscovery. This includes advising on the options for managing cases with data sensitivities and the best practice for handling cases with multiple languages, data types and data sources.

In addition to his work as an eDiscovery consultant, Nathan has been a guest lecturer at a Hong Kong University where he discussed legal technology and the various career opportunities that it can provide.

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.

Kimberly Lerman is a Talent Manager of Lawyers On Demand, a Consilio company. She helps to match attorneys with clients who have needs for contract attorney assistance in a variety of different types of positions at law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies.

Prior to the start of her career in recruiting in 2015, Kimberly spent 15 years practicing law in Atlanta, and she was involved in hiring attorneys throughout that time.  In her last legal role, she served as Vice President & Associate General Counsel for a large company in Atlanta. In addition to seven years of in-house experience, Kimberly also worked as a litigation associate at local law firms, including several years at both King & Spalding and Eversheds Sutherland.  Throughout her law firm tenure, Kimberly was involved with interviewing law students and lawyers at job fairs, on-campus interviews, and onsite interviews.  She also was a member of the Hiring Committee at Eversheds Sutherland from 2005 – 2007.

Kimberly currently serves as Co-Chair of the Duke Atlanta Women’s Forum and is a Member of the Duke Law Atlanta Board.  She also volunteers with Emory Career Connections as a speaker and a mentor for current Emory students considering a career in law. When not working or volunteering her time, Kimberly enjoys swimming, biking, and running, having completed 21 Ironman® triathlons. She is also an avid scuba diver and enjoys standup paddleboarding, hiking, nature photography (including underwater photography), yoga, and cooking.

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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