Jason Chicola is the founder and CEO of Rev, the Austin-based speech-to-text company that pairs 50,000 freelance transcriptionists with best-in-class AI to turn spoken words into searchable text. An MIT-trained engineer who became the third employee at oDesk (now Upwork), he built Rev on a simple bet: people will pay for curated quality, and people everywhere want to work from home. Today Rev serves over 100,000 clients including 60% of the Fortune 500, and Chicola is steering the company toward AI tools for the legal system, where accuracy is not optional.
Anna McGrane is co-founder and CEO of PacerPro, a San Francisco legal-tech company that turns the clunky federal court records system, PACER, into clean, automated workflows used inside nearly half of the Am Law 100. A former international lawyer who practiced securities law in Moscow and energy regulation in Beijing, she speaks five languages, read her first legal brief at twelve, and walked away from the law-firm track in 2014 to build software with her brother. She is a Fastcase 50 honoree and a Women of Legal Tech honoree.
Ofer Bleiweiss is the founder and CEO of Everchron, a cloud-based litigation management platform built for lawyers by lawyers. A former litigator at Irell & Manella who studied math and psychology at Berkeley before law school at USC, he built the software he wished he'd had during high-stakes cases: a single place where case teams chronology evidence, auto-generate witness files, sync deposition transcripts, and now interrogate entire matters with AI. From Los Angeles, his roughly 20-person, distributed team serves AmLaw 100 firms, litigation boutiques, and corporate counsel.
Sandra 'Sandy' Serkes is the co-founder, president and CEO of Valora Technologies, a Massachusetts software company that has spent more than 25 years teaching machines to read, sort and tag the mountains of documents that organizations forget they own. An MIT and Harvard Business School graduate, she built Valora's PowerHouse and BlackCat platforms into autoclassification tools used by legal, compliance, government and corporate teams to find sensitive information, retire 'dark data' and get ready for AI. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a frequent industry speaker, and a 2006 'Woman to Watch.'
Alex Sappington is the Co-CEO of Page Vault, the legal web-capture company whose software turns a tweet, a TikTok, or a vanishing webpage into court-admissible evidence. He bought the business in 2022 alongside his Stanford classmate Luke Suydam through a search fund, taking the wheel from founder Jeffrey Eschbach. Under their shared leadership Page Vault has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies three years running. A Princeton economist turned BCG consultant turned operator, Sappington talks evidence law at the dinner table too - his spouse is a federal prosecutor.
Page Vault makes legally-defensible web and social media capture software and services for lawyers, investigators, and government agencies. Its browser-based tool and on-demand service preserve websites, social posts, and video as court-admissible evidence - complete with metadata, hashing, and affidavits - while keeping the legal team out of the chain of custody.
ZL Tech (ZL Technologies) is a Silicon Valley enterprise software company that helps the world's largest organizations govern, manage and extract value from unstructured data - email, files and messages - at petabyte scale. Its Unified Archive platform consolidates eDiscovery, records management, regulatory compliance, data privacy, file analysis and analytics under a single architecture, eliminating the data silos that drive up cost and legal risk. Founded in 1999 by Kon Leong and Arvind Srinivasan, ZL serves Fortune 500 firms and federal agencies and has been recognized in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving for more than a decade. Today the company positions that same governed data layer as the foundation for enterprise GenAI and analytics.
Luke Suydam is the Co-CEO of Page Vault, the legal-tech company whose patented technology lets lawyers capture web and social media content as court-admissible evidence. A former Bain Capital private equity investor with a Stanford MBA and a Dartmouth degree in philosophy and economics, Suydam left the buy-side to buy a company of his own. In 2022, alongside business-school friend Alex Sappington, he acquired Page Vault through a thesis-driven search fund and the two have run it as co-CEOs ever since, steering it onto the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies three years running.
Rev is an American speech-to-text company that pairs the world's most accurate AI speech recognition with a global network of human transcriptionists to deliver transcription, captions, and subtitles at up to 99% accuracy. Founded in 2010 by six MIT-connected entrepreneurs, Rev serves over 100,000 customers and more than a million users across legal, media, education, and enterprise, and has increasingly focused its AI on the legal market with tools for depositions, evidence, and case prep.
Valora Technologies is a Massachusetts-based information governance company that builds AutoClassification software powered by machine learning. Its PowerHouse engine and BlackCat interface scan, analyze, tag, and defensibly dispose of enterprise content across cloud and on-premises repositories, helping legal, compliance, records, and IT teams tame sprawling, unstructured data for privacy, eDiscovery, and AI-readiness use cases.
Benton Armstrong is CEO of Celerity Consulting, a San Francisco-based risk optimization firm helping electric and gas utilities convert complex data into actionable intelligence. With more than 30 years across PwC and Deloitte — where he led a 1,100-person global discovery team through 8x revenue growth — Armstrong now steers a 180-person consultancy at the intersection of wildfire mitigation, asset risk management, and utility data transformation.

Kon Leong is the CEO and co-founder of ZL Technologies, a Milpitas-based enterprise software company he built from the ground up in 1999 to tackle the problem nobody else wanted to solve: the mountain of unstructured human data - emails, documents, messages - that sits at the center of every corporate compliance, legal, and AI challenge. A serial entrepreneur who migrated from China to India to Canada to the US, Leong brought a rare mix of deep IT engineering, Wall Street M&A finance, and startup grit to a market that was just waking up to its own data problem. Today, ZL Technologies serves Fortune 500 companies and government agencies across financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, with a platform that manages data in-place at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than conventional approaches.