eTera consulting

Under their leadership, eTERA Consulting has assembled an exceptional management team whose members have significant experience and proven track records in their respective disciplines.

The eTERA Consulting team is comprised of business and legal management professionals with years of legal industry experience across numerous functional areas necessary to understand client requirements and needs.  eTERA Consulting’s team members have extensive experience working with corporate legal departments and law firms on a wide variety of projects, cases, matters and strategic initiatives.  eTERA Consulting provides to its clients the subject matter experts required at each step of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM).  eTERA Consulting’s EIA methodology provides clients with a solid foundation to plan and manage at the far left side of the EDRM.   

Scott Holec

Principal, President

Mr. Holec has more than 12 years of technology and project management experience involving legal document production.  As president of eTERA Consulting, he frequently consults on large, complex litigation matters, with emphasis on developing the most cost-efficient methods for clients while maintaining the highest level of quality data.  He regularly advises clients on all aspects of EIA and electronic discovery with a specific focus on second requests, antitrust, intellectual property and general litigation matters.

Mike Garner

Principal, Senior Executive Vice President

Mr. Garner has been consulting with clients on electronic discovery and paper production for more than 10 years.  As a previous business development consultant at Merrill Corporation and Capitol Legal, he was responsible for consulting with clients and managing large volume document requests.  Mr. Garner specializes in ITC/SEC matters and other government filings.  He has the unique experience necessary to provide guidance through the pitfalls of these complex proceedings.

Todd Haley

Vice President, e-Discovery

Before joining eTERA Consulting, Mr. Haley was the Chief Technology Officer at Spriggs & Hollingsworth, responsible for overseeing the firm’s litigation support and information technology department.  As Vice President of e-Discovery, Mr. Haley is responsible for managing eTERA Consulting’s electronic discovery specialists and the processes and procedures necessary to ensure the handling of all projects.  In addition, he confers regularly with lawyers, corporate counsel, litigation support directors and other legal staff to assist in their EIA and electronic discovery matters, with emphasis on joint defense groups, multi-district litigation and class actions in the areas of product liability, toxic tort, environmental, government contracts and white collar crime.

Bob Gillespie

Vice President, ESI Consulting

Mr. Gillespie was previously the Regional Operations Manager at Merrill Corporation overseeing offices in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta and Miami, and Director of Client Services at Capitol Legal in Washington, DC.  Mr. Gillespie served as Legal Assistant Coordinator at Ross, Dixon & Bell and legal assistant at four Washington, DC firms.  As Vice President of ESI Consulting, he is responsible for managing large second requests, electronic discovery and EIA matters and providing additional protocols to the electronic discovery processes.

Joe Kanka

Vice President, Corporate Development

In his role as Vice President of Corporate Development, Mr. Kanka serves as EIA Program Advisor and oversees contract staffing projects. Mr. Kanka has 30 years of management experience including 15 years managing corporate law departments, document review projects, litigation support centers, discovery sites, evidence libraries and trial war rooms.  Mr. Kanka has also developed systems for tracking asbestos claims, legislative and regulatory issues and trial witnesses and exhibits.  Throughout his career, Mr. Kanka has held key legal management positions with AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Steptoe & Johnson and managed legal staffing companies in Washington, DC.  Mr. Kanka also provides training programs in legal project management.

Dan Junk, Esq.

Vice President, Legal Solutions

As Vice President of Legal Solutions, Mr. Junk is responsible for developing strategic relationships with key organizations in the information and data management markets.  Mr. Junk joined eTERA Consulting with more than 20 years of legal, sales and consulting experience. He has a proven history of delivering sales growth in the legal services market, having held executive positions with StoredIQ, OnSite, Merrill Corporation, Orchestria and Renew Data. During his tenure at Renew Data, Mr. Junk guided the sales team from humble beginnings to an operation that generated revenues exceeding $30 million annually and earned Inc. Magazine's recognition as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S.  Since 2001, Mr. Junk has also advised Fortune 500 corporations and AmLaw 200 law firms regarding a number of large electronic discovery cases. Prior to entering the electronic discovery arena, Mr. Junk was at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he served as the managing attorney responsible for coordinating all national defense counsel in tobacco litigation throughout the United States.

Chris Waters

Vice President, Western United States

With over 10 years experience in the litigation support and electronic discovery industry, Mr. Waters is well qualified at bringing advanced technology-based solutions and consulting to Fortune 500 corporations and AMLAW-100 law firms. He has extensive experience in the areas of antitrust, complex litigation, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, product liability, and class action...specifically serving financial, energy, and bio-med concerns.

Ted Mussenden

Vice President, Trial Technology and Courtroom Graphics

Mr. Mussenden has provided trial support for more than 600 legal matters, including jury and bench trials, administrative agencies, arbitration forums and ITC Section 337 Investigations.  A graphic artist for the last 38 years with the past 20 years specific to the legal arena, he is uniquely qualified to advise clients on all aspects of graphics, courtroom and war room technology, trial logistics and presentation development.  As Vice President of Trial Technology and Courtroom Graphics at eTERA Consulting, he staffs and coordinates all trial technology consulting services.

Sasha Hefler

Vice President, Global Strategy and Communications

Ms. Hefler is responsible for eTERA Consulting’s marketing, public relations and business development initiatives.  Ms. Hefler is the chief architect of eTERA’s Corporate Strategy Group and Legal Management Development Program.  Prior to joining eTERA, Ms. Hefler was the president of the Masters Conference, where she developed the event into one of the legal industry’s most respected educational conferences.  Her ability to quickly grasp the needs of corporate clients and business partners, coupled with her high-energy personality, ensures outstanding results for every project she undertakes.  Ms. Hefler’s previous experience includes a wide range of business expertise including 10 years managing large advertising accounts for McDonalds, American Express and Sea World. 

Debra Mangum

Director, Consulting Solutions

Ms. Mangum is responsible for project management of clients, oversight of the project management team, interfacing with operations and is a member of eTERA Consulting’s technology committee.  Prior to joining eTERA Consulting, she held various positions with Merrill Corporation, ranging from serving as a regional director, management of the project management staff and working with key client accounts.  She also served as the Director of Operations and was responsible for all data processing, staffing, scheduling, capacity planning and load balancing, and the establishment of Merrill’s electronic data processing hub in Cleveland, OH, growing that unit into a $10M revenue generating operation.

Paul Izzett

Director, EDD Operations

Mr. Izzett is responsible for overseeing and managing all production services, including copying, scanning, printing, imaging, coding and blowbacks and electronic discovery.  He is also responsible for overseeing project and production managers and software training.  Mr. Izzett has more than 12 years of experience in litigation support, including eight years in EDD.  He has extensive experience working with several leading technology applications including:  Clearwell™, Law™, Catalyst®, IPRO® and Doculux®.  

Mary Flory

Senior Consultant

In her role as Senior Consultant, Ms. Flory is responsible for managing cases involving e-Discovery and large complex litigations.  Prior to joining eTERA Consulting, Ms. Flory served as the Senior Manager of Practice Support at Dickstein Shapiro in Washington, DC.  During her tenure at Dickstein Shapiro dating back to 1997, Ms. Flory specialized in large, complex MDL litigations, IP litigation and insurance litigation.  She was a member of the firm’s e-Discovery committee and managed the firm’s litigation support operations and staff members.  Ms. Flory has extensive experience assisting clients in establishing budgets and protocols for the collection of paper and electronic evidence.  She consults with clients on how to plan, design and manage in-house and third-party computerized litigation support applications.  Ms. Flory serves on eTERA Consulting’s technology committee.