Innovation Culture Wars

Juan Ramirez is the founder and CEO of NSerio. Juan was born in Colombia, South America, but grew up Chicago. He studied Electronic Engineering and began his career working in corporate IT. He started freelancing as a software developer and saw an opportunity to start his own company, which led to founding NSerio in 2011. Now NSerio has over 40 employees and works with many of the world’s most reputable law firms, legal service providers, and corporations.

Chuck first copied a drawing program from BYTE magazine into a TRS-80 Color Computer in 1980. His hobbies over the years have included reading, writing, acting, biking, seeing movies, playing viola & guitar, video and other gaming. Starting Milyli was a great way to bring together the problem-solving, creativity, and discipline of many of his pastimes into the craft of software engineering.

Orrick has been named by the Financial Times as top 3 for innovation six years in a row. Kate works closely with clients and lawyers to improve the delivery of legal services through novel products, smart staffing, streamlined processes, data-driven decisions, and the use of technology. Kate also leads CaseStream, Orrick’s homegrown litigation and transaction management system, and remains active in numerous pro bono matters.

John Albright, HUB International Limited’s Chief Legal Officer, joined the Executive Management Team in May 2014. Albright is a seasoned, business-focused executive with 20 years of legal and commercial management experience in public, private and private equity-owned company and large law firm settings. While serving as the general counsel for several multinational corporations in complex and vastly different market segments, Albright amassed a record of building and leading highly efficient legal departments that effectively supported the achievement of commercial objectives.

Prior to accepting his current role of CLO at HUB International, Albright served as Senior Vice President, Global Legal and Compliance for Information Resources, Inc., a billion dollar data, technology and market research company with operations in 14 countries. Albright also worked as General Counsel for Accenture HR Services, Inc., an HR outsourcing joint venture that was ultimately acquired by Accenture during his tenure, and as both Division Counsel and Intellectual Property Counsel for Network Solutions, Inc., a large internet products and services company. In this latter role, Albright supported the $21 billion sale of Network Solutions (then a public company) to Verisign, Inc.

Albright began his legal career as an intellectual property and technology attorney with both Alston & Bird and Finnegan Henderson, focusing on complex litigation before state and Federal courts and the United States International Trade Commission.

Albright earned a BME in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, before pursuing his JD at Vanderbilt University Law School.