Andy Macdonald is CEO of Consilio where he is responsible for all strategic and operational initiatives to ensure client satisfaction and grow the business. Andy holds more than 20 years of executive experience across many industries and functional disciplines.
Prior to Consilio, Andy was a founding member of First Advantage Corporation’s management team and from 2003 – 2011 served in many capacities at the company, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer. Previously, he was with The First American Corporation as President, Occupational Health Services. Andy joined First American in 2002 through the acquisition of Bethesda, MD-based Employee Health Programs, where he was President and CEO.
Andy lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three children.
President
President
Meredith Kildow is an accomplished operations and sales executive with more than 25 years of experience across multiple industries. Her areas of expertise include expanding go-to-market strategies and bringing effective sales teams together through both organic and inorganic growth. Meredith is a champion of combining data-driven approaches with an emphasis on people, culture, and transformation to grow motivated, balanced business development teams.
As President, Meredith is focused on driving excellence in Consilio’s combined commercial business lines, including revenue, account management, and operational delivery across our global client base.
Prior to joining Consilio, Meredith was the Head of Global Sales Operations at Huron Legal and led operations at Hitachi Consulting.
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
Raj Chandrasekar is Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Consilio where he oversees Consilio’s technology and innovation functions – merging Development and Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Product Management, Business Intelligence, and Corporate Services functions. In his role, Raj frequently interfaces with clients to understand and accommodate processing, security and uptime needs and is also responsible for the day-to-day operations along with day-to-day operations of our industry-leading eDiscovery and legal industry software solutions.
He joined Consilio from First Advantage, where he held the position of Chief Information Officer. Raj has over 25 years of experience in the field of Software Development and Infrastructure Management and has held technology leadership positions in various large corporations.
Raj lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife and two kids.
Michael Flanagan is General Counsel for Consilio. Prior to joining the company, Mike spent more than 20 years with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., the last 11 as a partner. In that role he counseled public and private companies on a broad range of legal matters, including the resolution of commercial disputes, the negotiation of corporate transactions and various compliance issues.
Mike was a founding member and a co-chair of the firm’s Electronic Data Discovery Initiative and Information Law Practice Group. In addition to his responsibilities as General Counsel, Mike writes and speaks regularly on eDiscovery issues.
John Hale is Chief Marketing Officer for Consilio, focused on cultivating customer connections to drive impact for Consilio and our clients. He is an accomplished and versatile business leader with over 20 years of progressive success identifying, developing, and commercializing B2B and B2C technology-based solutions across complex industries.
John is passionate about building teams that deliver growth by connecting data, technology and storytelling.
John’s leadership journey has included leading performance marketing globally for Fortune 500 staffing firm Kelly Services, consumer relationship marketing for Microsoft Office 365, and enterprise business planning for Microsoft Azure.
John lives in Dallas, TX with his wife and two children.
As Cheif Finacial Officer Todd’s experience will help Consilio continue on it's historical organic and inorganic growth path, margin enhancement, and operational enhancement initiatives and capital deployment strategy.
Todd has a 30+ year track record of successfully growing, acquiring and improving the operational performance of global Industrial and Consumer based manufacturing businesses, including Diversey (now Solenis), Gardner Denver (now Ingersol Rand), and Capital Safety. He started his career with SC Johnson and Son, Inc.
Over his career, Todd’s contributions have led to investor outcomes consistently delivering multiples of invested capital (MOIC’s) of significance as an outcome of a focus on driving organic growth, M&A, and margin enhancement in all transactions he has been involved with.
Todd holds an MBA from Marquette University and a BS in Finance from The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Chief Employee Experience Officer
Chief Employee Experience Officer
As Consilio’s Chief Employee Experience Officer, Brandyn Payne is tasked with driving the company’s talent engine and shaping our current and future work culture. Her mission is to ensure our Consilio team has the tools and abilities they need to provide industry-leading partnership to our clients worldwide.
Prior to joining Consilio, Brandyn served as Chief HR Officer for HCTec, a healthcare technology services firm, and as VP of Global Talent for Sitel Worldwide, a leading business process outsourcer with operations in 24 countries. She has supported People, executive leadership strategies, and product development strategies across a variety of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, technology and services. Brandyn resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Chief Information Officer
Chief Information Officer
Director
Director
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.
Regional Director – Germany
Regional Director – Germany
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.
Vice President
Vice President
For twelve years, Lindsay has provided comprehensive document review solutions to corporate industry leaders. Lindsay assists corporate and law firm clients with strategic process development and implementation to meet e-discovery needs, minimize risk and achieve maximum quality and cost effectiveness.
In her current role, Lindsay leads Consilio's global managed review solutions team with over 19 review centers and 2,400 workstations worldwide supported by a team of 80 review managers. Lindsay is responsible for developing and managing effective process implementation, technology enhanced review solutions and optimized workflows to best serve Consilio's clients.
Regional Vice President
Regional Vice President
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.
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
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:
Senior Director
Senior Director
Elizabeth has more than twenty years of experience as a commercial litigator and consultant representing clients on a variety of adversarial and advisory matters, with an emphasis on corporate records management and electronic discovery, including data analytics and technology assisted review.
As a Senior Director and member of Consilio’s AdvisoryServices & Discovery Consulting team, Elizabeth assists corporate law departments and law firms with overall management of their electronic discovery needs. She specializes in project management, as well as the implementation of comprehensive legal hold and review solutions for complex litigation and government investigations. Elizabeth provides clients with discovery strategies that aim to maximize defensibility, reduce legal spend, and standardize matter handling, while operating under tight deadlines and delivering a high-quality work product.
Regional Director – APAC
Regional Director – APAC
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.
Vice President
Vice President
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.
Managing Director
Managing Director
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:
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
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.
Regional Director
Regional Director
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.
Vice President
Vice President
Jennifer is a Vice President of Global Legal Technology and Business Process Subject Matter Expert. She heads global operations for the Lawyers On Demand (LOD) division supporting flexible talent, structured teams, direct review staffing, and direct hire teams.
Jennifer’s role is to serve as a change agent to streamline processes and adoption of new technology, ensure operational efficiency, and support growth across LOD teams. Jennifer specializes in complex people, process, and technology integrations as well as planning and executing strategic initiatives. Jennifer creates alignment across departments to better serve Consilio’s clients and employees.
Managing Director
Managing Director
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.
Vice President, US Managed Review and DEI Program Lead
Vice President, US Managed Review and DEI Program Lead
Effie Sahihi is Vice President, US Managed Review at Consilio, a global legal services firm. In this role, Effie plans, implements, and supports large-scale eDiscovery projects for corporate clients and law firms. Her expertise includes class actions, large scale multi-jurisdictional litigations and regulatory investigations in the financial, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, legislative, transportation and other sectors. Effie also trains attorneys globally on eDiscovery platforms, processes and protocols. An expert on electronic document review in large-scale litigation, she works with attorneys and clients to design and tailor eDiscovery processes and practices to meet their specific needs.
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