NEWERAADR.COM - Key Persons
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- General Counsel, Primient
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- Director, Customer Success
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- Deputy Dean, University of Chicago Law School
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- Advisor
- Vice Chairman and Head of the Technology Group at CBRE
- Vice Chairman, CBRE
Brad Serot is Vice Chairman and head of the Technology Group at CBRE. Brad has completed over $6B in transactions including deals ranging from 1,000 to 1,000,000 square feet. Brad is an Advisory Board Member of the Clean Energy Trust, a Director of the Chicago Greater Food Depository and an Adviser to the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Brad holds a B.S. from Miami University.
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- Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Marquette University
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- Advisor
- Executive Vice President of Phillips Brothers Insurance
- Vice President, Phillips Brothers Insurance
Charlie Phillips is Executive Vice President of Phillips Brothers Insurance. Prior to Phillips Brothers, he was an underwriter for Chubb and a litigation attorney at Beerman Swerdlove. Charlie holds a B.S. from Miami University and his J.D. from Emory University School of Law.
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- President, Shulman ADR Law, P.a. NADN Member
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- Advisor
- Professor of Law & Director of ADR Program, Suffolk University Law School
- Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School
Christopher Gibson is a Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, and Director of the School's ADR Program and its Business Law and Financial Services Concentration. Chris is an active arbitrator and mediator, with more than 25 years of experience serving as arbitrator, mediator and counsel in institutional, ad hoc and other international and domestic proceedings involving a wide variety of commercial, technology, intellectual property, life sciences (pharmaceuticals), energy and other matters. He has accepted over 300 appointments as a single, presiding and panel arbitrator, as well as emergency arbitrator. He is on the panels of leading arbitration institutions: AAA Commercial Panel, Large and Complex Cases; ICDR International Panel; International Chamber of Commerce; Swedish Chamber of Commerce; Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center's 2021 Tech List; and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is certified by WIPO to mediate IP disputes. Chris was previously a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson, and he also practiced with Pillsbury in its San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. He was a legal counsel at WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva. He has also served as Chair of the Boston Bar Association's International Law Section; Chair of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Society of International Law; and Vice-Chair of the Academic Council of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration. Chris is on the Advisory Board of the Boston International Arbitration Council. He is a founder and Co-Director of the Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition (FDImoot.org), which focuses on investor-State arbitration. He holds his JD from Berkeley Law, University of California, MPP from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and BA from the University of Chicago.
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- VP, Litigation Workflow & Analytic Content, Fastcase
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- CEO & Co - Founder, Pilot Project Brewing
Dan Melnick is the chief technical advisor of New Era ADR. He is the former Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product Officer of Reverb.com, the world's largest digital marketplace dedicated to musicians, their stories, instruments, equipment and gear. Dan was the third employee at Reverb and was instrumental in the creation and growth of the platform. Previously, Dan was an Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer at Groupon, a Software Developer at Obtiva, a Founder at Leina Design and the Operations Manager for the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Dan holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in Information Systems from Northwestern University.
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- CEO, Reverb Former CEO, Indiegogo
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- Director of Litigation Services
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- SVP, Product & Solutions, Factor
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- Head of Sales
- Assistant Director of Women
- Head of Sales ( She / Her / Hers )
Hollie is Head of Sales at New Era ADR. She joins with a wealth of legal industry knowledge as a former litigator and most recently, as a Regional Sales Executive for a highly successful legal tech disruptor, CS DISCO. Hollie has built deep relationships (and friendships) with AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 companies while working side-by-side with them to solve each of their unique challenges. Hollie holds a BA from Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO) and a JD from the University of Illinois College of Law (Champaign, IL).
Hollie is currently the Assistant Director of Women in eDiscovery - Chicago Chapter and an Advisory Board Member of CASA of River Valley.
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- Founder & Executive Director, Six Parsecs
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- Advisor
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Technology Officer of Chief
John Higginson is the Chief Technology Officer of Chief, the only private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders. Prior to Chief, John was CTO at Groupon, the world's preeminent deals site and Enova, a public digital lending platform that generates over $1B in revenue annually. John also previously served as the CTO of Wheels, Inc. and also held leadership positions at FTD Companies and Applied Systems, Inc. John holds a B.A. from Northern Illinois University and also honed his legal skills receiving a M.S. in Information Technology and Privacy Law from the John Marshall School of Law.
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- Partner, Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Financial Officer ( He / Him / His )
Kevin is the Chief Financial Officer of New Era ADR. His passion is combining strategic finance, deep customer insights, and a product obsession to build incredible businesses.
Before joining New Era, Kevin served as CFO and Head of Strategy at Reverb.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy-the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. Kevin was responsible for driving overall finance, planning, and strategic growth initiatives. Kevin was also responsible for Reverb's international business, launching the marketplace in Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan. In 2019, Kevin helped lead the acquisition of Reverb by Etsy.
Prior to Reverb, Kevin spent several years in management consulting, both at Prophet Brand Strategy, a growth, marketing and innovation consulting firm, and in IBM's Growth and Innovation Strategy Consulting Practice.
Before entering consulting, Kevin served as President of Zealous Records, LLC, a music company that he founded. Kevin oversaw all elements of operations, marketing, strategy and finance leading to an eventual partnership with the largest entertainment company in the world. He began his career at Sony Music Entertainment in London and New York City.
Kevin holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, graduating in the top 10 percent of his class.
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- General Counsel, SpotHero
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- Advisor
- Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Clearedge Marketing
Leslie Vickrey is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Clearedge Marketing, a full service marketing agency focused on technology and talent management businesses. Leslie previously held senior positions at Spherion and MicroComputer Solutions. She is the Co-Founder of ARA, a group focused on Attracting, Retaining and Advancing women in technology and is a Director of Chicago Innovation. Leslie holds a B.A. from Central Michigan University.
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- General Counsel, the Long Term Stock Exchange ( LTSE )
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- Chief Privacy Officer at Oracle
- Chief Privacy Officer, Oracle, Inc
Mark Partin is Chief Privacy Officer at Oracle. Previously, Mark was an attorney focusing on general and commercial litigation for renowned law firms Vedder Price and Chapman and Cutler. Mark is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and a Director for the Network Advertising Initiative. Mark holds a B.S. from Indiana University and a J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
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- VP, Head of Litigation Insurance, Lockton Companies
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- Co - Founder
- Head of Operations
- Founder & VP, Operations
- Founder & VP, Operations ( She / Her )
Michelle is Head of Operations at New Era ADR. Prior to New Era, Michelle was the Director of Compliance and Legal Operations at Civis Analytics, a fast-growing, venture-backed data science technology company born out of President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. Prior to joining Civis, Michelle spent close to 10 years at ICAP Patent Brokerage, most recently as the Head of Organization Operations and Compliance. Michelle started her career at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, holds a B.A. in Legal Studies from The University of Pittsburgh and is a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE)®.
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- Chairman, HOPE Chicago Former CEO Co - Founder, Green Thumb Industries
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- Program Manager, Operations
- Program Manager, Operations ( She / Her )
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- CEO & Co - Founder, Catalytic ( Acquired by PagerDuty ) Former CTO & Co - Founder, Fieldglass ( Acquired by SAP )
- CEO and Co - Founder of Catalytic
Sean is the CEO and Co-Founder of Catalytic, a company he founded in 2015 built on his lifelong obsession with working better. The company's no-code workflow automation platform helps companies improve and automate their processes.
Prior to Catalytic, Sean was the CTO and EVP of Services at Fieldglass where he joined as the second employee and founding CTO in 2000. While there, he helped Fieldglass pioneer software-as-a-service (SaaS), define the vendor management system (VMS) industry, and achieve industry dominance as the leading technology provider for procuring and managing contingent labor and services. In 2014, SAP acquired Fieldglass for approximately $1 billion as part of its SAP cloud initiative.
Sean began his career as a project manager at Giant Step and a consultant at Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.
Shane Mulrooney - Chief Legal Officer, Founder
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- Advisor
- Owner, Shawn Aiken, PLLC NADN Member
Shawn Aiken has 35 years' experience as a trial lawyer and 25 years' experience as a neutral in business litigation and arbitration, especially misrepresentation, unfair competition, business tort, intellectual property, and contract cases. He is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America"® (2007-2020) in commercial litigation, mediation, and arbitration. He is one of SuperLawyers' "Top 50 Arizona Lawyers" (2009-2021). As an arbitrator and mediator, Mr. Aiken has mediated over 700 cases and arbitrated over 300 cases to final award. He was selected by Best Lawyers in America as Lawyer of the Year 2012 and 2015 (Mediation, Phoenix) and 2019 and 2021 (Arbitration, Phoenix). In 2017, he was appointed to the CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals: Arbitrator and Mediator, Real Estate Panel, and Phoenix ADR Panel. In 2015, he was admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and the Academy of Court-Appointed Masters.