Marla Crawford brings over 30 years’ expertise to her role as general counsel of Cimplifi. She is a respected attorney, strategic advisor, and thought leader who speaks regularly on legal technology, electronic discovery, and information governance issues. Marla spent 22 years practicing law at the prestigious international firm, Jones Day, specializing in the discovery phase of litigation.   She also served as associate general counsel for Goldman Sachs for 11 years where she led the firm’s global eDiscovery practice and focused on complex commercial and securities litigation and regulatory investigations. Marla’s expertise also includes advising on issues relating to information governance as well as the deployment of new technologies. Marla earned a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Duke University, graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctor, and is licensed to practice law in the state of New York.

As chief technology officer for Cimplifi, Ari holds responsibility for designing, deploying, and maintaining the internal and client-facing systems required to drive speed and efficiency in an incredibly complex and data-heavy environment. Ari identifies and implements practical solutions to solve a host of technological issues, from document collection, processing, and hosting to providing mission-critical support for large scale document review projects. He is charged with ensuring the availability and security of the infrastructure behind billions of documents and petabytes of data. His approach involves developing integrations and automation to decrease resource utilization and increase productivity.  During his long tenure at Cimplifi, Ari has spearheaded significant infrastructure and systems improvements, including the development of a national network topology for secure local and remote data access and virtualized hosting environments for all Cimplifi-hosted offerings. He also plays an integral role in the evaluation and training surrounding Cimplifi many application partners, from review and processing platforms to data warehouses and cybersecurity systems. Ari has a strong background in software development, cybersecurity, data analytics, network topology, and business development. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton, is a Relativity Master, and is Nuix Certified.