LegalCIO - Legalweek New York 2020

Bettina Warburg

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Warburg Serres Investments and Animal Ventures

Bettina Warburg is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Warburg Serres Investments, an early stage venture capital fund focused on the decentralization of trade and Blockchain Technology. She is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Animal Ventures, an investment advisory firm that builds and invests in tech startups, educates executives, and designs new ways for Fortune 500 companies to commercialize and leverage emergent technologies. These emergent opportunities include technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Additive Manufacturing, and the Internet of Things. Animal Ventures has extensive experience in industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, trucking, shipping, logistics, online marketplaces, and fin-tech in and around the broader world of supply chain activities. She is one of the first speakers at TED to unpack the topic of blockchain, and her talk, “How the Blockchain will radically transform the economy,” has been seen by over 5 million people, making it the most viewed TED talk on the topic of Blockchain to date. Bettina’s collaboration with Wired Magazine to help explain Blockchain at 5 levels of difficulty has also been seen by over 2 Million people. She was executive producer of a show called Tech on Politics which featured interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology, media, venture capital, and government. Discussions rove over the convergence of technology, politics, and government. Bettina lectures each semester as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas School of Information in Austin, and is co-author of Asset Chains: The Cognitive, Friction-free, and Blockchain enabled Future of Supply Chains, as well as The Basics of Blockchain. She has given talks at TED, Wired, IBM Think, VMWare, The Business Council, Credit Suisse Latin American Investment Conference, Smart Cities, Merck & Co’s Annual Technology Innovation Conference, The Skoll World Forum, Salzburg Global Seminar, San Francisco’s City Innovate Summit, and numerous other conferences and universities around the world. Bettina’s work has been cited in publications such as Wired Magazine, BBC News, The Atlantic, Center for Public Impact, ICMA.org, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Bettina received her MSc from Oxford University and BS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and developed a keen interest in global governance and cultural diplomacy.

Bill Murray

Compliance Counsel at Crowell Moring

William J. Murray is the Compliance Counsel for Crowell & Moring, resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Bill focuses on the firm’s internal compliance policies and procedures, including data privacy, anti-bribery/anti-money laundering, HIPAA, and other areas. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Bill spent six years in private practice advising clients on anti-corruption and compliance issues in the pharmaceutical, technology, and consumer goods industries. Bill has significant experience in government enforcement proceedings and complex litigation. Bill attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, before attending Georgetown University Law Center, where he graduated magna cum laude. Bill is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars.

Greg Lambert

Chief Knowledge Services Officer at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Greg Lambert is the Chief Knowledge Services Officer at the law firm of Jackson Walker in Houston, Texas, where he oversees operations for the Library, Research, KM, RFP, and Conflicts & Intake departments. He is the former President for the American Association of Law Libraries, and is known as an advocate for law librarians and legal information professionals. Greg is a founding blogger for 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, and the co-host of The Geek in Review Podcast. He talks and writes extensively on the topics of law librarianship, competitive intelligence, knowledge management, and the roles that innovation can play on the administrative side of large law firm.

Josh Larocca

Senior Managing Director at Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company

Joshua J. Larocca leads teams in conducting data breach, complex financial crime, and corporate misconduct investigations, with a diverse background in public and private sectors.

Kermit Wallace

CIO at Day Pitney

Kermit currently serves as the Chief Information Officer for Day Pitney LLP, an East Coast law firm with more than 300 attorneys in 13 offices in Boston, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C. With 30 years of professional experience, Kermit has had success in both the private and public sectors with particular expertise supporting professional services firms. He has served in technical, management and leadership positions in multiple industries including education, finance, software and legal. A hands-on, “roll up your sleeves”-type, Kermit leads by example. He is uniquely skillful at crafting creative, reliable, high-value solutions to business challenges and developing high-performing teams. A testament to his leadership and mentoring abilities is the fact that several of his Directors and Managers have gone on to lead the technology groups at global firms and in other industries. Kermit is an accomplished public speaker and subject matter expert who has presented at the ILTA annual convention, the LegalTech / LegalWeek CIO Forum, The Thomson Reuters CFO/CIO/COO Forum, CIOsynergy, the ARK Group / Managing Partner Law Firm Pricing & Profitability conference and the PLTG IT Director Panel.

Marlene Gebauer

Greenberg Traurig

Martha K. Louks

McDermott Will & Emery

Noah Waisberg

Co-Founder & CEO at Kira Systems

Prior to founding Kira Systems, Noah practiced at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he focused on private equity, M&A, and securities. Noah is an expert on contract analysis, legal technology, and artificial intelligence; has spoken at conferences including SXSW Interactive, ILTACON, and ReInvent Law; and was named 2016 ILTA Innovative Thought Leader of the Year. He is also the author of Robbie the Robot Learns to Read, the world’s first ever children’s book on machine learning. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. from Brown University, and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.

Patricia Johansen

Goodwin Procter

Patrick DiDomenico

Jackson Lewis P.C.