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Kamaka Martin, Esq. is the Senior Vice President of US Client Services at Consilio. Kamaka has over 18 years of legal consultation experience and has worked with several Fortune 500 corporations advising on best practices when using software as a service, artificial intelligence and bespoke managed services offerings to manage complex litigation. Kamaka has expertise in Technology Assisted Review, advanced analytics and has been instrumental in the development of workflows that utilize core predictive analytics features. Kamaka also speaks regularly about inclusion and diversity in the legal industry and the importance of fostering an equitable environment for professionals and clients to thrive. Kamaka graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lafayette College with a B.A. in History and Government and Law with Honors in 2004. She also received her J.D. from the University of Melbourne while living abroad in Australia.

As a trusted consultant with 20+ years of interdisciplinary experience, Matt maximizes value for his clients through education, consultation and process improvements. Anticipating challenges, proposing options, and identifying solutions, Matt designs workflows that address the goals of each client, providing enterprise solutions that span the entire EDRM and beyond, including IT, InfoSec, Records Management, Compliance, Legal Operations, Cybersecurity, Litigation, and more. Matt’s prior experience includes roles as a Strategic Consultant and Solutions Architect, Director of eDiscovery, Project Manager, Senior Legal Assistant at an AmLaw 100 firm (Insurance/Reinsurance practice), and IT Director. This background equips Matt with years of hands-on experience from multiple perspectives enabling him to tackle clients’ everyday challenges and provide them with consultative and cost-conscious solutions for their entire organization. With the practical knowledge of the Clients’ current situation and the vision for their desired future state, Matt’s talents to design, forecast, and execute custom workflows, while making complex processes understandable to all stakeholders has solidified him as a reputable and trustworthy advisor to corporations and law firms of all sizes for over 2 decades.

Matt’s background contributed to his becoming a founding member of Consilio’s Insurance Initiatives, recently recognized by Business Insurance as a finalist for 2021 Insurance Consulting Team of the Year. While servicing and supporting all of Consilio’s broad base of corporate and law firm clients, Matt focuses his efforts on Consilio’s Insurance vertical and is also a leader of the Cyber Response Solutions practice.

Known for his unique communication style, bullet point emails, mixed metaphors and analogies, and movie quotes, Matt also enjoys asking the question, “How Round is Your Triangle?” – exploring and attempting to fix the (often dysfunctional) communication patterns among Corporate Client, Outside Counsel, and Services Provider.

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.

Drawing on more than 25 years of experience providing dedicated client service as an attorney and consultant, Maureen engages with Consilio’s customers to ensure a best-in-class client experience. She works cross-functionally across the company to develop and deploy best practices that embed Consilio’s commitment to service excellence, and to deliver the highest levels of quality and value. She seeks opportunities to create differentiating moments for clients—from bespoke educational sessions to loyalty programs to peer networking events—to foster client satisfaction and loyalty.

Maureen also serves as Consilio’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer. She leads the development and implementation of the company’s strategies, policies, and programs for ensuring a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. Partnering with Consilio’s internal and client Advisory Boards on Diversity & Inclusion, Maureen guides the organization in carrying out its mission of attracting and encouraging a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas; fostering a global, inclusive culture; and celebrating employees’ diverse strengths.

Maureen is a respected industry thought leader, speaking and writing frequently on significant issues that impact Consilio’s clients, such as current challenges for legal professionals around data privacy and security; strategies and tactics for engaging in cross-border discovery; the latest developments in e-discovery law and practice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession.

Prior to joining Consilio, Maureen was a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, where she represented Fortune 100 and other multinational companies in complex employment litigation, including class and collective actions. Maureen also co-chaired the Firm’s E-Discovery Practice Group. In that role, she advised clients on various e-discovery issues, such as identifying and inventorying sources of electronic information, drafting legal hold notices, and developing protocols for document collection, storage, and management. She also consulted internally with attorneys at the Firm on e-discovery issues, and helped develop best practices for litigators engaged in e-discovery.

Zach Pope is a seasoned Business Development veteran in the legal consulting and document discovery space, supporting his clients for over 20 years. His responsibilities include working with corporate legal, legal operations and IT departments and their outside counsel to provide the most cost effective and efficient solutions when faced with a government investigation, internal investigation or litigation matter. Having worked on some of the largest or highest profile matters in the last decade, he uses his experience to guide his clients through complex matters with tremendous outcomes.

His experience spans across the EDRM, including Information Governance, data forensics and collection, data analytics, processing, document review and production. Zach has consulted with companies and law firms across the country in numerous sectors including: Energy, Petrochemicals, Technology, Telecommunications, Construction, Real Estate, Airline and Healthcare.

Patty Wise provides executive oversight to Consilio’s flexible talent business unit, where she is responsible for driving organic growth and architecting bespoke flexible legal talent programs to help clients solve unique legal challenges. Since 2008, she has partnered with Consilio clients to provide the right legal talent to build resilient legal organizations across industries, practice areas, and geographies. Prior to joining Consilio, Patty practiced law with Troutman Sanders in Atlanta and Kennedy Covington in Charlotte (now K&L Gates). She holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University, where she was awarded the Junius L. Allison Award, given for the most significant contribution to the Legal Aid Society, and a B.A. from Emory University.