Richard is the founder and Executive Director of The Sedona Conference®. As a practicing attorney, he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, IP and other complex business litigation since 1978. Prior to founding The Sedona Conference®, Richard was Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group of the Minneapolis law firm of Gray Plant Mooty, which he had joined in 1987. Before joining Gray Plant Mooty Richard owned and operated a nationally- renowned jazz club and practiced in a plaintiff's antitrust class action law firm in Minneapolis and with a large, defense-oriented firm in San Francisco, CA.

Richard Braman profile from The Federal Lawyer, September 2003.

Ken is Director of Judicial Education and Content for The Sedona Conference®, an Arizona-based non-profit law and policy think-tank which has been on the forefront of issues involving complex litigation, intellectual property and antitrust law. Since 1989 he has published several widely-distributed papers on electronic discovery, hosted a popular web site on electronic discovery and electronic records management issues, and given presentations at more than 250 conferences and workshops for legal, records management, and industry audiences. His most recent publication is "Ephemeral Data and the Duty to Preserve Discoverable Electronically Stored Information," 37 U. Balt. L. R. 349 (2008). From 1999 through 2005, Ken was a Senior Education Attorney at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington DC, where he developed Internet-based distance learning programs for the federal judiciary concentrating on issues of technology and the administration of justice. He contributed to several well-known FJC publications, including the Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth Edition (2004), Effective Use of Courtroom Technology (2001), and the Civil Litigation Management Manual (2001).

Sherry is a E-Discovery Advisor with the Litigation Support Group of Hunton & Williams LLP, supporting the firm's litigation practice worldwide. She has over 30 years of litigation experience, with an emphasis on management and coordination of document-intensive multi-jurisdictional complex litigation and U.S. regulatory investigations, and is particularly well versed at integrating automation in complex litigation. Although Sherry has a strong background in antitrust compliance, corporate records management, legal hold procedures, and information lifecycle management, the onslaught of electronic discovery has become a focal point of her responsibilities. She is a charter member of The Sedona Conference Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) Steering Committee, a member of The Sedona Conference RFP+ User Group, and has a long history of participation at CLE events and involvement in pro bono activities.

Tom is currently an attorney and consultant in Cincinnati, OH. He was Senior Counsel to Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw (Chicago), having served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of BASF Corporation from 1993 to 2004. While at BASF, he helped initiate the movement to amend the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to achieve e-discovery reform and currently co-chairs the E-Discovery Committee of the Lawyers for Civil Justice. Tom is co-chair of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) and chaired its Special Project Team on E-Mail Management. He speaks and writes often on corporate compliance and information management and is active in ARMA, AIIM, ACC and the ABA.

Ariana specializes in securities fraud and consumer class action litigation. She currently serves as one of plaintiffs' liaison counsel in In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, 21 MC 92 (S.D.N.Y.), a consolidated class action against 55 of the nation's most prominent investment banks and more than 300 corporate issuers. Ariana is a leading authority on electronic discovery, having chaired and spoken on this topic at numerous conferences both nationwide and abroad. She currently co-chairs the Steering Committee for Working Group 1 of The Sedona Conference®, the leading e-discovery "think tank," and she is a member of Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced E Discovery Institute Advisory Board. Ms. Tadler is actively involved in several charity and community organizations. In addition, she serves on her firm's executive committee.

Magistrate Judge Facciola was appointed a U.S. Magistrate Judge in August 1997. Prior to being appointed to the bench, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan from 1969-1973, and was in private practice in the District of Columbia from 1974-1982. Judge Facciola joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1982 and served as Chief of the Special Proceedings section from 1989 until his appointment as Magistrate Judge. He is an adjunct professor of law at Catholic University, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Board of Governors of the John Carroll Society. Judge Facciola has written several opinions on electronic discovery and lectured frequently on the topic.