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Nathan Cemenska is the Director of Legal Operations and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions. He previously worked in management consultancy helping GCs improve law department performance and has prior experience as a legal operations business analyst. Tom Davis possesses almost three decades of experience as an accomplished attorney, FBI Special Agent and fraud prevention and AML/KYC compliance expert. Tom Davis is Coinme's first General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Throughout his career, he’s held leadership positions at legal and technology firms to combat financial crimes and direct legal compliance. Atul Dubey is the head of Wolters Kluwer’s Legal and Regulatory U.S., a leading provider of information and expert solutions for legal and business compliance professionals. In this role, he focuses on growing the business by driving increased relevance for customers through digital products and expert solutions leveraging technologies like NLP/AI and modern workflows.
Samantha Green is the Director of Content Marketing for Epiq. She serves as a subject matter expert on all aspects of electronic discovery, data privacy, and cybersecurity, drawing on her twenty years of litigation and consulting experience. She has provided over a hundred CLEs on topics relating to eDiscovery, litigation readiness, international data privacy, among many others. Sylvia Kerrigan has over a decade of experience in the board room as a director and former executive for the industrial, transportation and energy sectors. In addition to her leadership roles at various capitalintensive enterprises, her board expertise includes environmental, social and governance (ESG), regulatory, risk management, cybersecurity and information privacy matters. Luis M. Martinez is Vice President of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, (ICDR) the international division of the American Arbitration Association, (AAA) and is an Honorary President of the InterAmerican Commercial Arbitration Commission, (IACAC). Luis serves as an integral part of the ICDR's international strategy team and is responsible for international arbitration and mediation business development.
Christine McCarthy is the leader of Barnes & Thornburg's Patent Practice Group and chair of the firm’s Telecommunication Industry Group, Christine McCarthy has extensive experience working in private, government and legalservices sectors. Her globally based and invested clients benefit from her counsel on virtually all aspects of intellectual property including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, Internet law and copyright and patent licensing. Tom O’Neil is a highly respected corporate director and advisor with broad private and public sector experience, including leadership roles in boardrooms and C-Suites in the consumer, financial services and healthcare sectors. Tom has an exceptional track record of accelerating cultural transformation and restoring trust with investors, regulators and enforcement officials.
Breen Sullivan is the Founder and CEO of The Fourth Floor, a new kind of tech-enabled community for women founders, board candidates and investors on a mission to drive systemic change by getting women onto the boards and cap tables of women-led startups. Ken Yerkes has been an active litigator and trial attorney with numerous reported decisions that illustrate his effective collaboration with clients in planning and executing the right strategy at the right time. On those rare occasions when summary judgment or an acceptable settlement are not forthcoming, Ken is willing and able to take the case to trial and has done so successfully in multiple jurisdictions Reach him at ken.yerkes@btlaw.com
Michelle Skipper is Vice President for the Commercial Division at the American Arbitration Association in Charlotte, NC. She received her undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Texas – San Antonio and her M.B.A. from the McColl Scholl of Business at Queens University in Charlotte, NC. Michelle is responsible for the case management of large, complex commercial arbitrations for the mid-Atlantic regions.
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