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Jason Chicola
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
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
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 Serkes
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
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.
Luke Suydam
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.
Benton Armstrong
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
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.