Board of Directors

John B. Henry II  Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
David J. Callard  Managing Director and President of Wand Partners
J. Roderick Heller, III  Chairman & CEO of Carnton Capital
Howard (Terry) Williams, III  Former Senior Director of McKinsey & Company
Hugh J. Yarrington  Executive Board of Wolters Kluwer
Michael S. Wilder  Former General Counsel of The Hartford

Management

Cloyd Laporte  Chief Operating Officer
Raghu Rao  Chief Technology Officer
Jason Papanikolas  Professional Services Manager
Stephen L. Cansler  Controller

Advisory Board of Former General Counsel

Insurance Advisory Board

Advisors

Daniel S. Hapke, Jr.  Corporate Advisor
John G. Di Liberto  Insurance Advisor
Joseph A. Murphy, Jr.  Health Care Advisor
David L. Roll  Antitrust Advisor
Gerard C. Smetana  Employment and Labor Advisor
Bowen H. Tucker  Litigation Advisor

Board of Directors

John B. Henry II, Chairman & CEO, has built his career around complex-problem solving. As the founder and CEO of four corporations, Mr. Henry has raised $100 million in venture capital and public equity, with a focus on taking deal-making and market-making into new frontiers. Mr. Henry raised $70 million in venture capital and public equity for Crop Genetics International. He established Clean Air Capital Markets, an environmental investment bank, to pioneer the private placement market for SO2 allowances, saving the American people billions of dollars annually. In 1999, he founded eLawForum to change the economics of the practice of law. Mr. Henry is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School and has served on numerous boards of non-profit (Harvard, the Smithsonian) and for-profit organizations. He is an art collector, a gardener and an expert in American foreign policy.

David J. Callard, is Managing Director and President of Wand Partners, a private equity investment firm. Mr. Callard was a General Partner, Managing Director and Director of Alex. Brown & Sons. In addition to his Directorships of Wand portfolio companies, Mr. Callard is a Director of the Pictet Funds. He is a trustee of Union Theological Seminary, and former director of Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Episcopal Charities. Mr. Callard graduated from Princeton University and New York University School of Law.

J. Roderick Heller III, is Chairman & CEO of Carnton Capital, a venture capital firm. Mr. Heller was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before serving as CEO of Bristol, an air-conditioning manufacturer, and Chairman & CEO of The National Housing Partnership, then the largest owner and manager of apartments in the U.S. He is former Chairman of the Board and Trustee Emeritus of WETA, a public television station, advisory board member of the Civil War Preservation Trust, and former Vice-Chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mr. Heller is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

Howard (Terry) Williams III, is former Senior Director of McKinsey & Company. He is currently Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, Alliance for Nonprofit Management; Chairman, Board of Trustees, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Washington Home and Hospice; Trustee, The Stewart Trust; Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Points of Light Foundation; Trustee, D.C. Community Partnership; and Board of Governors, Chevy Chase Club. Mr. Williams received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Hugh J. Yarrington is on the Executive Board of Wolters Kluwer, responsible for Legal, Tax & Business in North America/Asia Pacific, and International Health, Science, Education & Technology. Mr. Yarrington was previously CEO of CCH, a publisher of tax, business, health and human resources information, and served on the Board of Wolters Kluwer-U.S after it acquired CCH. He was a senior executive at The Bureau of National Affairs and served on its Board. Long active in the information industry, Mr. Yarrington served as Chairman of the Information Industry Association. He is a graduate of Randolph-Macon and George Washington University Law Center.

Michael S. Wilder is the former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Hartford Financial Services Company. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Safelite Glass Corporation and the Connecticut Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He is a certified arbitrator and member of the commercial and reinsurance panels of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Wilder is also an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He has served as a trustee of the American Arbitration Association, as a director of the New England Whalers hockey team (predecessor to the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team) and as a member of various community boards and committees. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.

Management

Cloyd Laporte III, Chief Operating Officer, is an experienced litigator and entrepreneur. Mr. Laporte practiced antitrust law at Donovan Leisure and commercial litigation at Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP. He was Executive Editor of American Lawyer's Counsel Connect online service and CEO of several successful high-tech start-ups. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago Law School.

Raghu Rao, Chief Technology Officer, is CEO of Infozen, a software firm that built and operates eLawForum’s website. Mr. Rao is the architect of high-traffic websites employing sophisticated databases for major corporations (e.g., Lexis-Nexis, Bureau of National Affairs, Mobil, Computer Sciences Corp., Hearst News Media and ThermoElectron).

Jason Papanikolas, Professional Services Manager, has worked for many non-profit and higher education organizations in a variety of administrative and managerial positions. He graduated from The Catholic University of America.

Stephen L. Cansler, Controller, is an experienced financial manager and consultant including positions in charge of accounting, operations, personnel and information systems. He graduated from University of Maryland and holds a Master’s degree from Central Michigan University.

Advisors

Daniel S. Hapke, Jr., Corporate Advisor, was Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Cordant Technologies, an aerospace manufacturer acquired by Alcoa. Previously, Mr. Hapke served as General Counsel of several operating divisions at General Dynamics and as Deputy General Counsel in the corporate legal department. He served as national Chairman of the American Corporate Counsel Association. Mr. Hapke holds BS and JD degrees from St. Louis University.

John G. Di Liberto, Insurance Advisor, was CEO of the National Insurance Crime Bureau and held a variety of claims and senior management positions at Kemper Insurance and Utica National Insurance. Mr. Di Liberto has been active in numerous insurance organizations including the CPCU Society, Alliance of American Insurers, WCRI and Arbitration Forums. He graduated from Fordham University and received a Masters from New York State University.

Joseph A. Murphy, Jr., Health Care Advisor, was Chief Washington Counsel for the BlueCross BlueShield Association. Previously, Mr. Murphy was General Counsel of BlueCross BlueShield of Michigan. He chaired the Michigan State Bar Insurance Law Committee and was one of the founding members and a past President of the American Health Lawyers Association. Mr. Murphy graduated from Georgetown University and Michigan State Law School.

Gerard C. Smetana, Employment & Labor Advisor, is the Senior Labor Partner at Smetana & Avakian. Mr. Smetana is a well-known labor and labor antitrust litigator and has led many cases limiting labor’s antitrust exemption. He has argued cases in every US Court of Appeals and appeared before the US Supreme Court. Mr. Smetana graduated from New York City College, the University of Michigan Law School and Chicago University Business School.

Bowen H. Tucker, Litigation Advisor, was Associate General Counsel at FMC, in-house counsel at Caterpillar and a trial attorney at Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, after graduating from Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Tucker was Chairman of MAPI’s Product Liability Advisory Council and Deputy Chairman of the Business Roundtable’s Tort Reform Lawyers Advisory Committee.

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