Board of Directors

Chris Kruse, Founder, Chairman of the Board, VP Business Development

Chris founded CaseCentral in 1993, and has provided the leadership and vision to build a successful market-leading SaaS legal technology company. During his fourteen year leadership term at the company, CaseCentral has grown from a start-up to a dominant tier-one player in the emerging eDiscovery and GRC market. Chris led the company through three major cycles in the market, including a host-based proprietary service, to delivering the service in a SaaS model over the internet for large cases, to the current Enterprise offering for large organizations across multiple matters. CaseCentral is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the 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 18 years in the legal technology market, with management roles at Joint Defense Data, Inc, and LanSystems.

Tom Thimot, President and Chief Executive Officer

Tom was named president and CEO of CaseCentral in January 2008. He brings a wealth of business experience and an incredible portfolio of success at both public and private companies to CaseCentral. Tom joined CaseCentral directly from Kazeon Systems, where he was responsible for greater than 300 percent annual revenue growth. Prior to Kazeon, he served as president and CEO at 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 oversaw the creation of double digit growth engines that significantly increased the public valuations of each company.

Thimot 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. He was also a key leader in the worldwide Oracle applications vertical organization that grew revenues by more than $100 million.

Earlier in his career, Thimot held management and consulting positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture. His education includes a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Marquette University, where he also studied business administration.

Barry Reynolds

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.

Robert Finocchio, Jr.

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

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.