Bill has 25 years of experience as a partner, shareholder and board member of AmLaw 200 law firms, including Williams Mullen where he built one of the first law firm Alternative Legal Services and eDiscovery practices. His extensive experience as a trial lawyer, including trying to verdict over 20 jury trials, and his deep experience in legal technology including working with AmLaw 200 law firms, “Big Four,” and technology providers gives Bill’s clients access to a perspective built upon broad and unique experience, and a deep understanding of his clients’ business and legal technology needs and strategies. Bill and his team’s defense verdict in EMF/mobile phone litigation was selected as a Top 10 Defense Verdict by the National Law Journal. Bill was also recognized by the American Bar Association for his work on the Exxon Valdez litigation. For the last 10 years Bill has participated in and now runs a Corporate-Only Roundtable where corporate eDiscovery teams, judges and industry experts have met to share experiences and discuss emerging challenges and solutions that combine technological and legal solutions. He has led managed review teams at both law firms and service providers. His team at Deloitte was selected as a Top 3 managed review provider by the New York and Washington, D.C. Law Journals.

Thomas C. Deas, Jr. is the Chairman of the National Association of Corporate Treasurers (www.nact.org), having also served a previous term as its Chairman from 2011 through 2013. From 2001 until his retirement in 2016, he served as Vice President and Treasurer of FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC). Prior to joining FMC, he served as Vice President, Treasurer and CFO of Applied Tech Products Corp., of Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG) and of Maritrans Inc. (NYSE: TUG). Prior to these positions, Mr. Deas was employed for 18 years at Scott Paper Company (NYSE: SPP), where he served in various capacities in finance and treasury.

Mr. Deas received a BS in Physics from the University of South Carolina. Following service as a destroyer officer in the U.S. Navy, he received an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the past Chairman of the International Group of Treasury Associations and is a director of the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation and its Investment Policy Committee. He has served as a member of the Financial Stability Board’s Market Participants Group and is a current representative to the Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee. Both these efforts focus on changes in how LIBOR and other interest rate indexes are determined. Mr. Deas is a member of the steering committee of the Coalition for Derivatives End-Users. He is a frequent speaker at investor conferences and professional forums and has testified on financial and derivatives reform before several Congressional committees.

As the Director of eDiscovery Strategy, Chris O’Connor advises clients on the use of technology in all aspects of the eDiscovery Reference Model (EDRM) from collection through production. He applies his deep knowledge of legal technology and processes to the design of case strategies and workflows to be implemented by clients and the CDS Project Management Team. Working with clients on bet the farm, matters, Chris has implemented the use of analytic technologies including those leveraging artificial intelligence. He has worked with software companies on their technologies in development counseling on everything from fact pattern analysis to continuous active learning. Prior to his role at CDS, Chris worked as a litigation technology project manager at multiple law firms including members of the Am Law 100. Chris has had numerous speaking engagements where he has presented to lawyers, technologists, and the U.S. Federal Government on the intricacies of working with Big Data.

Meredith Coffey is Executive Vice President of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), and runs Research Department and co-heads the LSTA’s Public Policy efforts, which help facilitate continued availability of credit and the efficiency of the loan market. In addition, Ms. Coffey heads efforts to analyze current and anticipated loan market developments, helping the LSTA build strategy and improve market efficiency, and provides commentary through weekly newsletters, periodic conferences and webcasts. Ms. Coffey is on the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC), which is working to transition from LIBOR to a successor rate; she co-chairs the ARRC’s Business Loans Working Group and the Loans Operations Sub-Group. She and the analyst team also engage market participants, press and regulators on issues and developments in the global loan market. Ms. Coffey has published analysis on the syndicated loan market in numerous books and periodicals, presents frequently, and has testified several times before Congress on issues pertaining to the loan and CLO markets. Prior to joining the LSTA, Ms. Coffey was Senior Vice President and Director of Analysis focusing on the loan and adjacent markets for Thomson Reuters LPC, working in and running loan research for 15 years. Ms. Coffey has a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and a graduate degree in Economics from New York University.

Hu is a Vice President in the American Bankers Association’s Prudential Regulation and Asset Management group. He is responsible for ABA’s regulatory advocacy in matters related to financial institution insolvency and resolutions and corporate governance, as well as transition from use of LIBOR to alternative indices. He also works on selected securities law and capital markets issues.

Before joining ABA in October 2014, Hu served as General Counsel of Ally Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, he held senior roles in the legal staff of Ally Financial, focusing on capital markets, structured finance, corporate treasury and securities reporting. Before joining the company, he was in private law practice in Washington, D.C. and served as Assistant General Counsel, Securities and Finance, at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation/Resolution Trust Corporation.

Hu received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University and his J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. He is a member of the D.C. Bar and the State Bar of Texas.

Daryl Shetterly is a Six Sigma Black Belt, is the Director of Orrick Analytics, and helps manage Orrick's Global Operations and Innovation Center in Wheeling, WV. Daryl’s passion is bringing innovation and business process to the practice of law. The Financial Times recognized Orrick Analytics for the #2 and #3 Most Innovative Product and Service in 2017 and 2018.

Timothy Cerino is a managing director in KPMG in the US Lighthouse Data and Analytics Center of Excellence, where he leverages new big data architecture and statistical machine learning methods to provide advice and insights that complement traditional approaches and support advisory engagements. Areas of opportunity include commercial banking, risk management, regulatory compliance, portfolio management, capital markets, corporate finance and development of new, data-driven business solutions.

Charlie Connor is the CEO and Co-founder of Heretik. Heretik is a Chicago based software company that uses machine learning to make the contract review process smarter, helping the worlds best problem solvers identify risks, obligations, and opportunities in contracts. As a CEO with more than a decade of experience in technical product management roles in enterprise SaaS, Charlie believes that any challenge can be solved through the right mix of people and technology.

Michael L. Spafford is a partner in the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice of Paul Hastings LLP. His practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, government investigations, regulatory enforcement, internal investigations, and litigation. He has represented financial institutions, funds, and other companies, as well as individual clients, in numerous high-profile government investigations and parallel litigation involving alleged violations of the federal securities, commodities, and banking laws, and other alleged fraud and manipulation. Mr. Spafford has been featured in Chambers USA, White Collar Crime & Government Investigations (District of Columbia), The Best Lawyers in America®, Derivatives and Futures, and Super Lawyers, Washington, D.C., Criminal Defense.

Isaac Greaney is a partner in Sidley’s litigation group in New York and serves on the firm’s LIBOR Task Force. Since joining the firm in 2004, Isaac has focused his practice on commercial litigation and disputes, with a concentration in the area of securities litigation, and the defense of securities enforcement investigations. He has represented financial institutions, corporations and officers and directors in litigation involving violations of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Trust Indenture Act, as well as in investigations by the SEC, DOJ, FINRA, CFTC, FERC and various state attorneys general. Isaac also advises clients in litigation related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, lender-debtor relationships, and a variety of other sophisticated commercial and contractual relationships.

Throughout his career, Isaac has helped clients navigate through complex and high-profile litigation and regulatory matters presenting significant potential exposure. Since early 2007, Isaac has advised clients regarding the Financial Crisis, including representing clients in litigation arising from the issuance of mortgage backed securities, high-profile government and internal investigations involving residential mortgages, market rumors, short sales of financial institution’s equity and credit default swaps, and a wide range of disputes arising from distressed commercial properties. Prior to joining Sidley, Isaac represented clients in disputes arising out of the bursting of the dotcom bubble, the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, and the destruction of the World Trade Center towers.

Isaac is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Securities Litigation and Arbitration, New York City Bar Association (where he was a former member of the Committee on Government Ethics), American Bar Association’s Litigation Section and SIFMA’s Compliance & Legal Division. He earned his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Michael Hausfeld, widely recognized for his leadership on antitrust matters and his groundbreaking cases in human rights law, is the Chairman of Hausfeld and is based in Washington, DC.

Michael has a long record of successful litigation in the antitrust field, on behalf of individuals and classes, in cases involving monopolization, tie-ins, exclusive dealing and price fixing. He is involved in ongoing investigations of antitrust cases abroad and pioneering efforts to enforce competition laws globally. Michael has an abiding interest in social reform and has been a part of some of the most groundbreaking cases in that arena both in the U.S. and around the world. He was a member of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Transition Taskforce, which advised the incoming Obama Administration, and has chaired the ABA’s Civil Redress Committee.

Michael has been recognized and ranked by Chambers USA year-after-year. Naming Michael “Lawyer of the Year” in 2019, the Global Competition Review stated that the firm “is clearly recognized as one of the best plaintiffs’ firms in the country.” The publication has reported that Michael “consistently brings in the biggest judgments in the history of law” and that he is “a Washington lawyer determined to change the world – and succeeding.” Who’s Who Legal named Michael a 2019 “Thought Leader” stating that he is “one of the titans of the competition plaintiff space, and is a perennial selection as a Global Elite Thought Leader. He attracts numerous recommendations from peers across North America and Europe for his standout practice.”