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AJ Shankar is the Founder and CEO of Everlaw, the cloud-native ediscovery platform that unlocks the collaborative power of litigation and investigative teams.

AJ received an AB in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He founded Everlaw in 2010 after consulting for a law firm in grad school, where he observed firsthand the inefficiencies in the discovery and litigation process. He realized that the legal world needed better technology to process support and derive insights from the ever-increasing deluge of discoverable evidence.

Fast forward to today, AJ has built Everlaw into a global company with customers including Fortune 100 corporate counsel, 91 of the Am Law 200, and all 50 state attorneys general. With a $2B+ valuation, Everlaw is funded by top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz, CapitalG, HIG Growth Partners, K9 Ventures, Menlo Ventures and TPG Growth. AJ lives in Berkeley, Calif. with his family.

Shana Simmons is the Chief Legal Officer at Everlaw, a cloud-based e-discovery platform that unlocks the collaborative power of litigation and investigative teams. As the company’s legal strategist, Shana advises Everlaw’s executive leaders and Board of Directors to drive business growth while mitigating risk. She leads the legal department and is responsible for all legal, regulatory, privacy and governance, risk and compliance issues across the company. A recognized thought leader, Shana appears frequently in industry and national news publications and podcasts, and is a sought-after, inspirational guest speaker at a wide range of conferences and events.

Previously, Shana was Head of Go-To-Market Legal at Google Cloud, where she guided its explosive growth in markets around the world, including the U.S., Canada and Europe, and entry into many other countries. She started her legal career as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Stein & Hamilton LLP in New York and London.

Shana received a JD degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she served on the managing boards of the California Law Review and Berkeley Journal of African American Law & Policy. She was additionally Co-President of Law Students of African Descent. Shana earned her BA degree with honors from Wesleyan University, where she recently served as a Trustee. Shana currently serves on the boards of Lawyers for One America and the Oakland Zoo, and lives in Oakland, California, with her family.

Rich Liu is the Chief Revenue Officer at Everlaw, a cloud-based e-discovery platform that unlocks the collaborative power of litigation and investigative teams. Rich oversees Everlaw’s go-to-market strategy and motion including sales, customer experience, and partner ecosystem.

Prior to Everlaw, Rich scaled five multi-billion dollar unicorns across two IPOs, a successful acquisition, and numerous funding rounds at Navan (TripActions), MuleSoft (Salesforce), Facebook and other transformative Silicon Valley companies. He has built global business organizations spanning sales, account management, customer success, operations, strategy, partnerships, alliances, and business development.

Rich received his B.S. in biomedical engineering from Yale. As an engineer turned COO/CRO, he’s a true first-principles thinker. He’s a sought-after industry speaker on scaling companies from seed to IPO and beyond, building high-performance teams, and creating and dominating new market categories.
Rich resides in the Bay Area with his wife and daughters.

Chuck Kellner is an expert ediscovery strategist with a record of success helping clients give and get the discovery they need with fairness and proportionality. His current role on Everlaw’s Value Engineering team brings innovation and positive impact to Am Law 100 and Fortune 500 litigation clients. A recognized legaltech evangelist and thought leader, Chuck often appears in publications and speaks at industry events on the trends impacting the legal profession.

Chuck’s experience includes Litigation and Practice Support Manager for an Am Law 50; litigation support operations director for a Big Eight; and consultant and executive for ediscovery consulting, services, and business development for legal industry leaders. He has testified as expert on issues of cost and burden, appropriate uses of technology, adequacy of production, and on findings from computer forensic examination.

Chuck holds a BA from Brandeis University and JD from Lewis & Clark Law School. Among several organizations, he is a past executive board member of the New England Legal Technology Professionals (NELTP) and the The Sedona Conference Working Group 6, where he is part of a writing team for Principles for Disclosure in International Arbitration.

After years in Providence, RI, Chuck and his wife now call New Orleans home, where their love of good food and music finds no limits.