Board of Directors

Chris Kruse, Chairman of the Board, Founder

Chris founded CaseCentral in 1993, and has provided the leadership and vision to build a successful, market-leading SaaS/cloud computing eDiscovery and legal technology company. During his tenure at the company, CaseCentral has grown from a start-up to a dominant, tier-one player in the eDiscovery and GRC markets. Chris has led the company through three major cycles in the market, from a host-based, proprietary service, to delivering solutions via a SaaS model over the internet for large cases, to the current eDiscovery cloud offering for corporations and law firms with unique multi-matter, measurability and integrated capabilities. CaseCentral is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the eDiscovery market and Chris is a well known industry visionary. He is a frequent speaker at LegalTech, the world’s largest legal technology conference and is active in many other industry groups. Under his guidance, the Company has been engaged on many high-profile projects, including litigation related to the collapse of Enron, the Insurance Brokers anti-trust kickback litigation and the merger between AT&T wireless and Cingular. Chris has spent over 20 years in the legal technology market, with leadership roles at Joint Defense Data, Inc, and LanSystems.

Robert Finocchio, Jr., Director

Mr. Finocchio is a venture partner with Advanced Technology Ventures, where he focuses on investments in the software and internet infrastructure markets. In addition to serving on the board of CaseCentral, Mr. Finocchio serves on the boards of Sun Microsystems, Altera Corporation, Echelon Corporation and Santa Clara University, where he also a dean's executive professor at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. Mr. Finocchio has over 20 years of operating experience in the software, internet and infrastructure markets. He served as president and CEO of Informix Corporation, an information management software company acquired by IBM, where he also served as chairman of the board. Prior to Informix, he held various executive management positions at 3Com and the ROLM Corporation. Mr. Finocchio holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Santa Clara University.

Christopher Poole, Director

Mr. Poole is president and CEO of JAMS, the premier provider of mediation and arbitration services in the United States. Prior to joining JAMS, Mr. Poole was CEO at Thomson Elite, part of The Thomson Corporation. Under his leadership Thomson Elite grew to be one of the most successful suppliers to the legal industry with revenues exceeding U.S. $125 million. Mr. Poole was COO of Elite Information Systems from 1995-1998, chair and CEO of Elite Information Group from 1999 to 2003, and president and CEO of Thomson Elite from 2003-2006. Before joining Elite, he was executive director of Latham & Watkins LLP in Los Angeles. Latham is one of the largest law firms in the world, with more than 2,100 attorneys in 24 offices around the globe. He served as executive director from 1993 to 1995, and prior to that was the firm's director of technology from 1989 to 1993. Mr. Poole is the recipient of the 2002 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He earned his BA in Economics from Harvard University in 1979 and his MBA in Computers and Marketing from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in 1984.

Barry Reynolds, Director

Mr. Reynolds is managing partner of Housatonic Partners, where he founded the San Francisco office in 1998. Previously, he was with Trident Capital, a private equity group targeting information and business services companies. Prior to that, he was a manager with Bain & Company. At Bain, he co-founded the Principal Investor Services practice, consulting to medium and large buyout funds and strategic buyers. During this time, he also worked with Bain Capital and Texas Pacific Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Reynolds worked as an engineer for the General Electric Company. Mr. Reynolds is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was the Ford Scholar. He is a Director of CaseCentral, Inc., ProService Hawaii, ServiceSource International, LLC, Signature Wine Cellars, Inc., and On-Site Dental Care, Inc.

Tom Thimot, Director

Tom Thimot is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CaseCentral, based in San Francisco. With 3 years as CEO, he led CaseCentral to a successful growth year in 2009 with the addition of new Am Law 200 and Fortune 100 clients like Boeing Corporation. He also led the expansion of CaseCentral’s leadership position as the pioneer of multi-matter, multi-party eDiscovery software to be the first to introduce eDiscovery process measurability to drive efficiencies and the first company to introduce a cloud computing-based, integrated eDiscovery platform to drive down cost and risk for clients.

Tom is a seasoned executive who joined CaseCentral directly from Kazeon Systems, where as Chief Operating Officer he was responsible for greater than 300 percent annual revenue growth. Prior to Kazeon, he served as president and CEO of GoRemote Internet Communications, Inc., a NASDAQ company that was acquired by iPass. Prior to GoRemote, he was executive vice president of worldwide sales, services and customer support for Netegrity, Inc. Tom also served as the vice president of central U.S. sales at Oracle, where his team grew license revenues from $50 million to more than $250 million in a two-year period.