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Michelle, a proactive eDiscovery Manager, possesses a unique blend of technical expertise and legal acumen. At Volkswagen Group of America, she spearheads the management of the company's eDiscovery program while also overseeing Volkswagen's esteemed eDiscovery vendor panel.

Michelle champions the significance of data-centric decision-making, crafting and executing strategies that streamline the eDiscovery process. Her expertise lies in mining data, spotting trends, and translating these insights into actionable recommendations for stakeholders, leading to enhanced business outcomes.

Ricardo Brums is a digital forensics and eDiscovery professional with twelve years of consulting and in-house experience, based in Minneapolis, MN. In his current in-house role as an eDiscovery Forensic Technology Lead Ricardo leads preservation and collection efforts of unstructured data, from scoping to post collection processing and analysis, for a wide range of legal matters and investigations on behalf of Meta.

As an eDiscovery subject matter expert, Ricardo advises and partners with merits counsel, outside counsel, and internal cross functional technical teams to ensure deliverables are accurate, compliant, relevant, and ship securely to meet legal docket deadlines. Ricardo also leads proactive process improvement initiatives alongside his fellow eDiscovery Forensic Technologists. This includes streamlining technical workflows and documentation, and testing and validating tooling and other platforms to ensure they best meet the needs of his team, and the Company more broadly.

Ed is a trusted advisor to law firm leaders and a skilled consultant with a track record of solving individual through firm wide business issues. He brings diverse perspectives to his work, having worked at local, national and global law firms during 25 years in private practice, developing a leading global legal practice and working with and advising two global chairs during his last 15 years in law firm management.

Ed founded Estrada Legal Consulting to work with law firms to create, implement and track business strategies, and to re-evaluate and refine in process strategies. A key focus of that work includes structuring, analyzing and translating data to inform progress and create actionable tasks for business units and their leaders. He also advises on maximizing industry group performance, assessment of new markets and existing market positioning, and the assessment of combination opportunities.

A hallmark of his work is listening to his clients' needs and tailoring pragmatic and meaningful solutions that address the issues and do so in a way that is consistent with firm culture and results in sustainable growth.

He provides market insight from his network of clients and other professionals across Global 100 and AmLaw 200 firms, and through his frequent speaking engagements across the legal industry.

As Vice President of Client Solutions & Success, Reem leverages her diverse background to work with clients to develop and deploy unified, defensible, and effective eDiscovery programs. With more than 20 years of experience covering law firms, legal technology, and eDiscovery, her most impactful work has included transforming the client journey with focus on client experience and advocacy.

At Nuix, Reem brought together people, technology, and process to maximize customer satisfaction and consistent delivery through optimizing collaboration environments. She also focused on acquisition integration and creating a single, unified global team culture.

At FTI, her strategic vision grew the business from $0 to $1M in professional services revenue focusing on new offerings to align with client needs and business objectives. She also led the creation of a client success program centered on driving maximum value and desired outcomes for clients.

Reem is passionate about creating a people-focused culture that fosters engagement and cross-functional collaboration internally with employees and simultaneously with clients. Focusing on the people and how the technology will help brings the best solutions and client experiences.

Reem holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.