CS DISCO - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Managing Director of the Stephens Group
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Aaron Clark has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2016. Mr. Clark is a Managing Director of The Stephens Group, LLC, where he has been employed since its founding in 2006. Mr. Clark previously served on the board of directors of Bear State Financial, Inc., serving from 2011 until the company's acquisition in 2018. In addition, Mr. Clark currently serves on the boards of directors of various portfolio companies of The Stephens Group, LLC. Mr. Clark holds a B.S. in finance from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- President of Huston - Tillotson University
Colette Pierce Burnette, Ed.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2021. Dr. Burnette is the President of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, a position she has held since July 2015. Dr. Burnette previously served as interim President at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington, as well as serving in several roles at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, last serving as its Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Burnette is a leader of the Austin community, serving as co-chair of the Mayor of Austin's Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities, Board Chair of Leadership Austin and Treasurer of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas, along with several other local boards and committees. Dr. Burnette holds a B.S. in industrial and systems engineering from The Ohio State University, an M.S. in administration from Georgia College and State University and an Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Burnette is also a graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education's Management Development Program.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of Our Board of Directors
James Offerdahl has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2018. Mr. Offerdahl served as the Chief Financial Officer of Bazaarvoice, Inc. from January 2013 until its acquisition in February 2018. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Administration of Convio, Inc. from February 2005 until its acquisition in May 2012. Earlier in his career, Mr. Offerdahl held executive level positions at various other companies, including as Chief Executive Officer of Traq-Wireless, Inc., Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Pervasive Software, Inc. and Chief Financial Officer of Tivoli Systems, Inc. Since January 2011, Mr. Offerdahl has served on the board of directors of Q2 Holdings, Inc., where he also serves as chair of the company's audit committee. He also serves and has served on the boards of directors of several private companies. Mr. Offerdahl holds a B.S. in accounting from Illinois State University and an M.B.A. in management and finance from the University of Texas at Austin.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Jignasha (Jig) Amin Grooms joined DISCO in 2022 and is the company's executive vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO). Overseeing all HR functions, Grooms leads the company's recruitment, learning and development, performance management, diversity, equity and inclusion, and corporate social responsibility efforts as DISCO rapidly scales globally to meet the growing worldwide demand for technology that delivers better legal outcomes.
Grooms - who was named the 2021 Gold GLOBEE "Human Resources Executive of the Year" - has led human resources departments globally and trained teams to foster diversity, equity and inclusion at some of the world's leading technology companies including Dell, Cisco Systems and, most recently, Epicor Software. With more than 20 years of experience in the information technology industry, Grooms also holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Job Titles:
- Chief Product Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Kevin Smith has served as our Chief Product Officer since April 2021. Prior to joining us, Mr. Smith served as SVP, Portfolio Strategy and Operations for Carbon Black, Inc. (subsequently acquired by VMware, Inc.) from August 2018 until September 2020. Before this, Mr. Smith held various positions at CA Technologies from May 2011 to July 2018, most recently serving as VP, Business Unit Strategy for the Agile Management Division. Mr. Smith holds a B.B.A. from the College of William & Mary and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Co - Founder
- Director
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Kiwi Camara founded DISCO in 2013 with a vision to help legal professionals deliver the highest quality of services more efficiently through technology that enables lawyers to focus on the practice of law. Bringing together great engineering and a deep understanding of what lawyers do and how they work, Camara has led DISCO to become one of the only publicly-traded legal technology companies today.
With products and services that apply artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to help lawyers and legal teams improve outcomes for their clients, Camara has built a company that creates solutions to modernize the practice of law. Under his leadership, DISCO was recognized as one of the 2019 and 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and the 2020 and 2021 Forbes Cloud 100. In 2021, Camara was recognized by the Austin Business Journal as Best CEO, Public Company, and as a Top CEO by The Austin Chamber of Commerce's Greater Austin Business Awards. He was also one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs of 2020 by The Software Report.
Camara earned his J.D. at age 19 from Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge Harris Hartz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, was a Ph.D. student in economics at Stanford, taught corporate law at Northwestern, and was a founding partner of Camara & Sibley LLP in Houston.
Kiwi Camara co-founded our company in December 2013 and has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since that time. Mr. Camara holds a B.S. from Hawaii Pacific University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Director
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Krishna Srinivasan has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2013 and as chair of the board of directors since May 2021. Mr. Srinivasan is a Founding Partner of LiveOak Venture Partners, which he co-founded in January 2012. Prior to founding LiveOak Venture Partners, Mr. Srinivasan was a Partner at Austin Ventures from 2000 to 2010. Earlier in his career, he also worked at Motorola and SEMATECH. Mr. Srinivasan is or has been a member of the board of directors of numerous other portfolio companies of LiveOak Ventures Partners in the technology space. Mr. Srinivasan is also Chairman of the Board for The Miracle Foundation, a global non-profit organization that utilizes technology and proprietary best-practices to help orphans and vulnerable children achieve their full potential. Mr. Srinivasan holds a B.Tech. in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a M.S. in operations research from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Senior Vice President, Global Sales
- DISCO 's Senior Vice President, Global Sales
Luke McNeal has served as our Senior Vice President, Global Sales since June 2021. Prior to joining us, Mr. McNeal served as Vice President, Sales at BigSpring Private Limited from March 2020 to January 2021. Before this, from February 2018 to March 2020, Mr. McNeal served as the Director of Workplace, APAC for Facebook, Inc. Prior to that position, Mr. McNeal built and led multiple sales teams at Amazon Web Services across Southeast Asia from November 2014 to February 2018. Earlier in his career, Mr. McNeal held multiple leadership roles around the world with ServiceSource International, Inc. Mr. McNeal holds a B.S. in business administration and international studies from the University of Oregon, as well as a Global M.B.A. from both the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the National University of Singapore.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Senior Vice President, Professional Services
Melanie Antoon has served as our Senior Vice President, Professional Services since January 2021, after first joining us as our VP, Professional Services in November 2019. Prior to joining us, Ms. Antoon served as SVP, U.S. Operations at Inventus, LLC from August 2017 to November 2019, after first joining as its SVP, Discovery Solutions in April 2015. Prior to this, Ms. Antoon was Director of Hosting at Huron Consulting and VP, Client Services at Catalyst. Ms. Antoon holds a B.A. in psychology and women's studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.S. in computer science from DePaul University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
Michael Lafair has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 2018. Before joining our company, Mr. Lafair served as the Chief Financial Officer of Offers.com from November 2012 until its acquisition by Ziff Davis, LLC in December 2015. Following the acquisition, Mr. Lafair served as Global Head of Finance, Ziff Davis B2B until January 2018. Prior to Offers.com, Mr. Lafair served as Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of All Web Leads, Inc., as well as Vice President and General Counsel of Interlogix, Inc. Mr. Lafair earlier in his career practiced corporate law at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Mr. Lafair holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Accounting and Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of Our Board of Directors
- Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Robert P. Goodman has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2014. Mr. Goodman is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which he joined in 1998. Bessemer Venture Partners VIII L.P. and Bessemer Venture Partners VIII Institutional L.P. are affiliated investment funds of Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to joining Bessemer Venture Partners, Mr. Goodman founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of three privately held telecommunications companies. Since February 2017, Mr. Goodman has served on the board of directors of ACV Auctions Inc. and he previously served on the board of directors of Blue Apron Holdings from November 2015 to December 2019. Additionally, Mr. Goodman is or has been a member of the boards of directors of numerous other portfolio companies of Bessemer Venture Partners in the areas of software, mobile and business-to-business marketplace. Mr. Goodman holds a B.A. in Latin American studies from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Director
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Scott Hill has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2021. Mr. Hill is currently an advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. from May 2007 to May 2021. Before that, Mr. Hill was an international finance executive for International Business Machines Corporation from 1991 to 2007. Mr. Hill currently serves on the board of directors of VVC Exploration Corporation, a position he has held since August 2017. Mr. Hill earned his B.B.A in finance from the University of Texas at Austin and his M.B.A. from New York University.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Law
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Susan L. Blount has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2021. Ms. Blount currently serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, a position she has held since January 2016. From 1985 to 2015, Ms. Blount held various roles in the legal department at Prudential Financial, Inc., including serving as Senior and then Executive Vice President and General Counsel beginning in May 2005. She also worked directly with the board of directors of Prudential from 1995 to 2015. Since January 2019, Ms. Blount has served on the board of directors of Cavco Industries Inc. Ms. Blount is a founding member of the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, where she also served as Interim Executive Director from March 2019 to January 2020. Ms. Blount holds a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
With a career built on driving large scale brand transformation, simplifying and organizing product and brand portfolios and driving category awareness, Tom previously served as the vice president of brand marketing at MongoDB, where he was responsible for how MongoDB shows up in the world. Previously, he was vice president of brand at Vonage, where he helped lead the company's transformation into a leader in the business cloud communications and APIs.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Team
- Lead Investor at Georgian Partners
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Tyson Baber has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2019. Mr. Baber is a Lead Investor at Georgian Partners, a position he has held since September 2014. Prior to such time, Mr. Baber was an M&A Business Development Executive at IBM. Mr. Baber currently serves on the boards of directors of various portfolio companies of Georgian Partners. Mr. Baber holds an M.B.A. in international business from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.