Management Team
Dave McCann – President and Chief Executive Officer |
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As CEO, Dave McCann is a passionate advocate for EED solutions and services and is leading the company through its next phase of major growth. He has more than 20 years of high technology experience and prior to joining EED was senior vice president of products at FileNet, an IBM company and the leading provider of content management solutions. Before FileNet, Dave served as president and CEO of CarParts Technologies Inc., as an executive vice president of worldwide operations for Continuus Software, and as senior vice president of product management and marketing for the $1 billion Client/Server Technologies division of Unisys. |
Brad Berg - Chief Financial Officer |
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Brad Berg is responsible for EED's finances, human resources, IT, corporate compliance and security, and facility management. For over 20 years, Brad has played a significant role in public offerings, mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, he has served as senior finance officer at both public and private companies in the Seattle area and before that he was an audit partner at the certified public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand (PricewaterhouseCoopers). Brad serves on the board of directors for Junior Achievement of Washington, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, CA, the Advisory Board of Childhaven and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. |
Tim Wassman - Senior VP, Field Operations |
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Tim Wassman brings 25 years experience in the software and services industries to EED. His varied leadership roles have included sales, business development and solutions delivery. Ten of those years have been at the Vice President level and include a focus on governance, risk and compliance. Most recently, Tim was Vice President of the North American Business Unit for SPSS, a $300 million data and text analytics vendor. Prior to SPSS, Wassman was Vice President of sales and business development of Axentis, a venture backed, Software as a Service provider of Governance, Risk and Compliance management for Corporate Legal and Finance. |
Tom Haug - Vice President of Software Engineering |
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Tom Haug brings more than 25 years of engineering and product development experience in technology fields ranging from enterprise software to information retrieval to data communications. At EED, Haug is responsible for all aspects of development, including product management, program management, software engineering, quality assurance, documentation and release. Prior to joining EED, he served as vice president of engineering for several growth-oriented businesses with offerings including enterprise email appliances, IT governance and IT project portfolio solutions, Internet infrastructure and broadband satellite telecommunications services. |
Jose Lebron - Vice President of Business Development |
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Jose Lebron brings over 20 years of sales and management experience with Xerox Corporation, IBM, FTI Consulting and Aspen Systems Corporation to EED. During the last five years, he’s specialized in the electronic discovery field, assisting law firms and corporate counsel in evaluating, designing and executing cost-effective document management solutions. His distinguished career includes receiving numerous Presidents Club awards, creating new business development opportunities in Puerto Rico, and being selected to participate in an elite program for Xerox as an ambassador to India for the Emerging Markets Organization. Lebron has had extensive sales training in the areas of leadership, sales negotiations, territory management, technical solutions training and strategic selling methodology. |
Skip Lindsey - Vice President of Business Development |
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Skip Lindsey brings more than 20 years of sales and management experience to EED. Skip has a long history in document and records management, as well as a strong focus on litigation support strategy. Before joining EED, Skip worked four years for global information protection and storage provider Iron Mountain, where he served as vice president of sales, records consulting and digital services. Skip led strong revenue growth at Iron Mountain, positioned the company’s services to address customers’ litigation support needs, and forged a channel partnership with EED partner IBM FileNet. Skip also served as regional vice president of sales for software and services company Divine during a period of explosive growth, and he worked for eight years as director of sales for archiving and records management leader Mobius, establishing the company as the dominant provider of content management solutions in the Western United States. Skip earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from San Diego State University. |
Tony Polk — Vice President of Strategies |
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Anthony Polk first joined EED as president in 1999 after serving the company as a consultant for 10 years. He has a long history of working with lawyers and law firms and formerly ran a litigation support company. Polk also worked as a journalist for the Associated Press and the Rocky Mountain News. His work has been published by the New York Times and Washington Post, in addition to major legal publications. He also served as a speechwriter for former Colorado senator Gary Hart during the 1984 presidential campaign, and co-authored a book with Wyoming lawyer Gerry Spence, “Gunning for Justice” (Doubleday, 1984). |
Tim Ryan - Vice President of Operations |
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Tim Ryan brings more than 15 years of technology and leadership experience to EED. He has held several senior-level positions in project management, research and development, IT/network services and ASP operations. He has been responsible for the technical operations of a global corporate expense management company, providing technical advisement on network asset management and expense management solutions for licensing and ASP services. Ryan was responsible for the implementation of EED's secure, hosted environment of client data storage in the company's intellectual property environment. His experience in policy development and standardized process management techniques augments the existing EED processes ensuring that client data is handled quickly and efficiently. His expertise and leadership is integral to the expansion of EED and its standard-setting technology. |
Steve Stein, Esq. – Vice President of eDiscovery Consulting |
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Steve Stein leads EED’s national eDiscovery consulting practice, having worked with corporations and law firms on eDiscovery issues since 2000. He has also had years of experience working with corporations to address pre-litigation concerns in the areas of eDiscovery process design and its interaction with records management and document retention. As an eDiscovery consultant, Steve works with many clients to scope and implement work flow solutions for the retention, collection, review and production of electronic data, and has managed effective strategies for tape restoration and computer forensics matters. Steve brings to this practice the perspective of extensive hands-on trial experience, having first-chaired ten jury trials and second-chaired some twenty more. |
Kurt Walker - Vice President of Client Services |
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Kurt Walker is responsible for ensuring superior client service standards through the strategic planning, organization and execution of all client services functions. Prior to joining EED, Walker served as senior manager of client services for an information management provider where he was charged with the launch and management of their client services department. Previously, he was regional manager of client solutions for a large eDiscovery company, where as a founding member of their client solutions group, he spent more than six years defining the company’s service standards by providing guidance, training and support to clients. |
Robert Cruz – Director of Business Alliances |
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As director of business alliances, Robert Cruz is responsible for managing EED’s strategic alliance activities, and supporting company efforts in initiating and executing partnership agreements with key technology and service providers. Cruz most recently served as vice president of sales and business development for Enterra Solutions, an early stage provider of process automation technology, where he led commercial sales and channel development activities. Prior to Enterra, Robert was responsible for initiating and managing FileNet’s strategic alliance activities with HP, Sun, BEA, Siebel Systems, Adobe Systems, and IBM prior to the company’s acquisition by IBM in 2006. |
Russ Gould – Director of Marketing |
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Russ Gould manages business and market planning to create go-to-market strategies and programs that create interest, demand and recognition for EED in the marketplace. He is also responsible for positioning and evangelizing our offerings and managing market adoption and the product life cycle. Russ has two decades of marketing experience with successful technology or services companies including senior marketing and management positions at Kofax Inc., FileNet Software Inc., Cardiff Software and Pacific Data Products. Russ has a comprehensive understanding of email management systems and the early approach to records management classification that corporations apply to all types of unstructured data prior to litigation. He has a MBA in marketing from Syracuse University and a BBA in information systems and finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |