Board of Directors
Christopher Kruse, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO, Founder
Chris founded CaseCentral in 1993 and has been the driving force behind the vision and strategy of the Company since its inception. During his tenure with the company, CaseCentral has grown from a promising start-up to a leading, tier-one player in the eDiscovery and GRC markets. Chris has led the company through several major cycles in the legal technology and eDiscovery space, including proprietary service offerings, web-based solutions via a SaaS model, to private cloud technology and services. Chris’ leadership continues today in the dynamic eDiscovery market where eDiscovery technology intersects information management & governance strategy. CaseCentral is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the market and Chris is a well-known industry visionary and thought leader in the legal technology community and a frequent speaker at industry events. Chris has spent over 20 years in the legal technology market, with leadership roles at LAN Systems and Joint Defense Data Inc. (JDDI) prior to founding CaseCentral. Chris is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
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.
