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About the Contributors
Alexis Clark Mitchell was the Principal Data Scientist at OpenText
for Discovery and Analytics at the time the video featured in this issue
was taped. Prior to joining OpenText/Recommind, she was a Client
Director at Autonomy managing large scale, cloud-based archiving
solutions for e-Discovery, compliance, and records manage-
ment. She also served as the Senior Manager of Operations and
Corpus Analysis at H5 supporting accelerated document review.
Alexis has a background in linguistics, data science, and search tech-
nology and worked at the Linguistics Data Consortium at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania supporting DARPA projects in the areas of infor-
mation extraction, document classification, and topic detection.
Glenn Hofmann is the Chief Data Scientist at New York Life, and
leader of the Center for Data Science and Analytics (CDSA), a fast-
growing and highly innovative team. He joined New York Life in July
2016. CDSA supports many areas of the company with data science
and AI, such as Underwriting, Actuarial, Marketing, Agency Distribu-
tion, Service and Product.
Prior to joining New York Life, he built and led analytics teams in
Property and Casualty insurance (at Verisk, TransUnion and Allstate)
and held leadership positions at Claritas, ID Analytics, and HSBC.
Prior to his business career, Glenn served as Professor of Statistics
at the University of Concepcion in Chile. He received his Ph.D. in Sta-
tistics from The Ohio State University in 1997 and his MBA from the
Wharton Business School in 2009.
Steven Berrent is Managing Director in the Risk and Financial Advi-
sory practice at Deloitte Transactions & Business Analytics LLP, fo-
cusing on Discovery, Investigations, Legal Technology and Infor-
mation Governance. He is a former IT Director and Litigator and has
worked in AmLaw 20 law firms as the CEO of a legal service provider
and as an independent consultant. He is experienced in deploying
technology and advanced methodologies to improve the value propo-
sition for services attendant to risk, compliance and the legal sphere.
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