Ari Kaplan
Principal
Ari Kaplan Advisors

Ari Kaplan, an attorney and legal industry analyst, is an inaugural Fastcase 50 honoree, a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and a finalist for the International Legal Technology Association’s Thought Leader of the Year award. He is the author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (West Academic, 2nd Ed. 2016). Kaplan serves as the principal researcher for a variety of widely distributed benchmarking reports, has been the keynote speaker for events worldwide, and is the founder of the Lawcountability® business development platform. He is also a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher.

Adam Kuhn
Director of Product Marketing
OpenText

Adam Kuhn is the Director of Product Marketing at OpenText Discovery and an eDiscovery lawyer in San Francisco, California. Adam works with some of the world’s largest enterprises, law firms, and regulators on their legal technology programs and practices. He holds an advanced certification for OpenText Axcelerate and received the Rossman award from the USPTO Society for his contributions to legal scholarship. At OpenText, Adam is responsible for legal technology marketing and content programs with a focus on the innovative application of AI to legal services.

Sheila Dusseau
Head of Legal Operations
Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Sheila has enjoyed a career in a variety of international organizations working in a rich mix of leadership roles that included finance, operations, processes, and technology. In these roles, she has been fortunate enough to be a part of organizations going through a multitude of changes from start-ups to global transformations, and has benefited from the challenging experiences those bring. Starting out in operational management for several small European companies, and then moving to a mix of finance and operations leadership positions in large global companies, such as Delta Air Lines and Georgia-Pacific, brought Sheila a wealth of diverse breadth of experiences that continue to influence how she leads and interacts with every level within an organization. For the last 10 years, she has spent her time in the Legal Operations world, where she has been able to employ all of this experience to help companies such as NCR Corporation and Ferring Pharmaceuticals manage their legal operations and support executive guidance around this important aspect of the business. When not working, Sheila enjoys spending time with her very active family, including her husband, Todd, their three children, and their beloved Belgian Malinois dog. Todd and Sheila recently moved the family to Switzerland, from Atlanta, Georgia (USA), and are thoroughly enjoying the abundance of outdoor activities, friendly people, and beautiful sights that Switzerland has to offer. Their two youngest kids are heavily involved in soccer (football for the Europeans), and their oldest comes home to Switzerland in between her university studies in the USA. While in the USA, Sheila also liked to volunteer her time working with children, as well as with her local Chamber of Commerce.