Management Team
Tom Haug - President |
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Tom Haug brings more than 25 years of management, engineering and product development experience in technology fields ranging from enterprise software to information retrieval to data communications. Tom has a passion for building strong teams that work together to achieve a share vision. Prior to joining Daticon EED, he held executive management positions for several growth-oriented technology businesses with offerings including enterprise email appliances, IT governance and IT project portfolio solutions, Internet infrastructure and broadband satellite telecommunications services. |
Mike Jahnke - Senior Vice President Client Engagement and Delivery Organization / General Manager, Daticon Business Unit |
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Mike Jahnke is responsible for ensuring exceptional quality of service for Daticon EED's customers through Daticon EED's consulting, client service and sales operations under a unified client engagement model. Mike is also responsible for overall operations and performance of Daticon, a Daticon EED Business Unit. Prior to joining Daticon, Mike was Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations at Sequent Computers, a Portland-based technology company (now owned by IBM) from 1989 to 2000. Mike accelerated annual revenue from $140 million to $850 million by transitioning from a transaction-oriented, commoditized sales model to a consultative professional services led sales model. Subsequently, Mike served as VP Sales, VP Sales & Marketing and VP Operations for several VC funded start-ups. More recently, Mike served as Chief Operating Officer of a small cap manufacturing and distribution company in the gaming industry. While taking it public, Mike cleaned up its balance sheet and listed it on the American Stock Exchange. Mike has a systems engineering background from an early career experience at NASA and Control Data, while studying Marketing and Business Administration at the University of Maryland. |
Scott Koznek - Vice President, Finance & Administration |
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Scott brings over 27 years of experience in finance, accounting and operations to the Daticon EED executive team. For the past 18 years, he worked in the high tech industry. Prior to joining Daticon EED, Scott was Vice President of Finance at Microserv, a hardware service and support company that serves Fortune 500 clients. Before Microserv, he served as CFO at LapLink, a retail software company. A CPA, Scott earned his BS in Accounting from Central Washington University. He later earned his MBA from the University of Washington. |
David N. Barrett - Vice President, Vice President/Managing Director |
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Dave joined Daticon, now a Daticon EED Business Unit, in 1993 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing - and the company's first full-time salesperson. Since then, he has successfully led the growth of our customer base and corporate revenue, establishing Daticon EED as a leader in the legal eDiscovery services industry. As Vice President/Managing Director, Dave manages the Eastern Region sales team as well as the Client Services organization. Dave also spends a great deal of time in the field with the customer base and maintains many of the company's key client relationships. Prior to joining Daticon, Dave held sales and sales management positions at Daly & Wolcott in Providence, Rhode Island. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Computer Information Systems and Marketing from Bryant University. |
Robert Cruz – Vice President, Western Region Business Development and Strategic Alliances |
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Robert Cruz brings more than 20 years of sales and business development experience to Daticon EED. Robert joined the company in April 2008 with a diverse information management background and a proven track record of leading teams to high business growth. Prior to joining Daticon EED, Robert served as Vice President of Business Development for 2 early stage software firms in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, Robert was instrumental In driving business development and strategic alliance activities with market leading organizations including FileNet, BroadVision, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard. Robert is a graduate of San Jose State University and holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. |
Jeff Jacobs - Acting Vice President, eDiscovery Consulting |
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Jeff Jacobs leads Daticon EED's national eDiscovery consulting practice, where he assists corporate and law firm clients with eDiscovery process design, validation and execution, litigation readiness, and records and email management and retention issues. Jeff has over 20 years of experience as an in-house and outside litigation counsel, much of it spent executing or managing complex electronic discovery matters.
Jeff spent ten years as a Special Counsel in the litigation group of Sullivan & Cromwell's Washington, DC office, after which Jeff spent seven years as in-house litigation counsel at MCI, where he managed the eDiscovery aspects of the various investigations into the WorldCom accounting fraud and bankruptcy and the related securities class actions. He also managed the electronic discovery for MCI in connection with the Verizon-MCI merger, and advised the Company's Records Information and Management group on records storage, retention and destruction issues. Jeff has published articles and spoken before many groups on electronic discovery, litigation readiness and records management issues, and has also served as a Rule 30(b)(6) witness on such issues. He is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Chicago Law School. |
Tony Polk — Vice President of Strategies |
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Anthony Polk first joined Daticon EED as president in 1999 after serving the company as a consultant for 10 years. He has a long history of working with lawyers and law firms and formerly ran a litigation support company. Polk also worked as a journalist for the Associated Press and the Rocky Mountain News. His work has been published by the New York Times and Washington Post, in addition to major legal publications. He also served as a speechwriter for former Colorado senator Gary Hart during the 1984 presidential campaign, and co-authored a book with Wyoming lawyer Gerry Spence, “Gunning for Justice” (Doubleday, 1984). |
Tim Ryan - Vice President of Operations |
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Tim Ryan is responsible for Daticon EED's processing center operations in Kirkland, WA, Norwich, CT, and London, England. He brings more than 15 years of technology and leadership experience to Daticon EED. He has held several senior-level positions in project management, research and development, IT/network services and ASP operations. He has been responsible for the technical operations of a global corporate expense management company, providing technical advisement on network asset management and expense management solutions for licensing and ASP services. Ryan was responsible for the implementation of Daticon EED's secure, hosted environment of client data storage in the company's intellectual property environment. His experience in policy development and standardized process management techniques augments the existing Daticon EED processes ensuring that client data is handled quickly and efficiently. His expertise and leadership is integral to the expansion of Daticon EED and its standard-setting technology. |
Michael E. Lehoux - Vice President, Product and Program Management |
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Mike joined Daticon EED with the acquisition of Daticon, where he managed technology infrastructure and development. Now Mike drives Daticon EED's technology product planning and execution, making sure Daticon EED provides world-class electronic discovery solutions to its customers. As a recognized leader in his field, Mike has designed and developed document management systems; implemented Web-based repository solutions; led facility management engagements; and managed large-scale litigation, M&A and government investigation projects, document reviews and productions. He has written for Computer Counsel and other legal technology publications, and he has presented at Legal Tech, LawNet (now ILTA), the ABA TechShow, and the Texas Bar Association among others. |
