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Exterro, Inc. provides innovative, user-friendly software solutions to the legal industry and is committed to building easy-to-use cross-platform business and technology solutions.
Exterro was founded with the vision that legal processes could be improved using tools that have been successfully applied in other business disciplines. Ongoing discussions with industry experts and clients ensure continued innovative solutions built to meet exacting legal process requirements.
By filling the capability gaps and investing in research and development, Exterro has built the industry's foremost end-to-end platform for corporations and their outside counsel to holistically manage legal governance, risk and compliance processes.
Today, Exterro is essential in ensuring faster, smarter, litigation response to e-discovery and regulatory compliance requests.
 
 Innovation
Exterro looks at problems from new perspectives and incorporates best practices from disparate sources. Concepts and processes are constantly being scrutinized and re-examined using input from clients and industry experts to come up with better, faster and more efficient solutions. Through constant innovation and continual refinement, Exterro remains the leading provider of robust software solution for today's complex legal world.
 Accessibility
Exterro is exceptionally accessible to its clients and partners, who are encouraged to provide creative feedback — ensuring a constant influx of fresh, new perspectives and ideas. Leveraging roundtable discussions, on-site client meetings, learning seminars and working groups, Exterro is able to direct its research and development to address unmet needs in the legal industry.
 Adaptability
In Exterro's agile work atmosphere, new concepts move quickly from idea to reality, keeping pace with the ever-changing legal industry. Exterro's uniquely flexible solutions adapt to multilayered business environments and integrate seamlessly into disparate technology frameworks.
 Community
Exterro believes in fostering a sense of community within its offices' walls as well as in the greater global neighborhood. Exterro provides its employees with the ability to leverage their skills in fresh ways, and to take ownership over their jobs, their communities, and their roles as responsible, innovative, creative individuals.
Exterro's Leadership
Bobby Balachandran, President and Chief Executive Officer
Bobby Balachandran founded Exterro, Inc. with the conviction that process improvements in the legal industry can be driven from lessons learned in other industries. He leads the company in building a comprehensive platform for global corporations to mitigate risks, control costs, and have complete visibility into their legal governance, risk, compliance and discovery processes, from end to end. As president and CEO, he has demonstrated leadership in bringing creative software solutions and breakthrough workflow technology to the legal industry; and brings 15 years of leadership experience in architecting and implementing large-scale GRC solutions for Fortune 500 companies to daily operations.
Balachandran leads the overall strategy and vision of the company, providing the senior management team with a unified vision and enabling the organization to grow aggressively and sustainably, and fostering a culture of creativity, innovation and flexibility. His comprehensive legal and technology background provide the real-world knowledge and practical experience needed to drive Exterro’s continued innovation.
Before founding Exterro, Balachandran worked extensively in financial services, healthcare and telecommunication industries building mission-critical applications. He holds a BS in computer science from Government College of Technology in Coimbatore, India, and an MS in computer science from Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
Karthik Palani, Executive Vice President, Global Operations
Karthik Palani oversees the day-to-day global operations of Exterro. He leads the integration of strategic and innovative processes into Exterro's Fusion platform, and works with the executive team to evaluate and drive new strategic business opportunities, including strategic alliances, mergers, and acquisitions.
Palani has more than 10 years of information technology leadership experience in the automotive, manufacturing, health care, and telecommunications industries. He received a BS in computer science and Engineering from Regional Engineering College in Trichy, India.
Shashidhar Angadi, Executive Vice President, Technology Operations
Shashidhar Angadi is the head of Technology Operations at Exterro, Inc., and drives the technology direction of Exterro, focusing on architecture frameworks, portals, security, service-oriented architecture, CRM and application integration.
Angadi has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has architected and implemented complex solutions for a number of leading retail and financial institutions. He holds a BS in computer science from Bangalore University in Bangalore, India.
Ajith Samuel, Executive Vice President, Process Innovation
Ajith Samuel is the executive vice president of Exterro, Inc.'s process innovation department, and leads the company's trailblazing product strategy team. Samuel has 15 years of experience in regulatory compliance and designing and architecting large-scale information systems for the futures industry. He holds a master's degree in computer applications from St. Joseph's in Trichy, India.
Bob Rohlf, Esq., Director of E-Discovery Strategies
Bob Rohlf has broad experience in law and business. With a background in process management, Rohlf managed business process improvement projects in a number of national and regional companies representing the transportation, energy, manufacturing, electronics, foods, and leisure sectors.
Prior to joining Exterro, Rohlf was Global Services Director for Commerce One, where he built relationships with services partners to deliver enterprise-level projects to clients in the pharmaceutical, energy, and metals sectors. A member of the Oregon State Bar, Rohlf has experience with general business and patent litigation, as well as environmental regulatory agencies. Rohlf has an MBA from Oregon State University and a JD from Lewis and Clark School of Law.
Mandana Salehi, Senior Director, Business Development
Mandana Salehi has more than 10 years of experience working with compliance in the government and academic fields, as well as in marketing and management. As Senior Director of Business Development, Salehi has brought her expertise in the administration of justice, electronic discovery and the practical application of complex legal concepts to Exterro.
Salehi is an expert in industry trends, workflow management software functionality and project management. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Portland State University in Administration of Justice, and is currently completing her master’s of business administration at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon.
Mark Wilcox, Director of Enterprise Software Sales
Mark Wilcox is the Director of Enterprise Software Sales, driving partnerships and finding solutions for clients to solve their legal governance, risk and compliance (GRC) challenges. Wilcox also manages technical integrations with software partners and system integration partners, streamlining and ensuring collaboration between software development teams across corporate legal and IT environments. Wilcox is a proven leader with a history of success in building strong consultative development teams focused on identifying and supplying solutions to address specific client needs. He has more than two decades of sales and management experience ranging from advertising and media to lending and finance. He holds a BS in speech communications from Oregon State University.
Suresh Nalla, Director of Client Solutions
Suresh Nalla brings his extensive background in designing, building and implementing enterprise-class, Web-based software and applications to Exterro’s client solutions team. He effectively supervises all technical aspects of Exterro’s client installations, managing customizations and integrations as well as working closely with client technical teams to understand and mitigate any IT infrastructure or resource limitations. Under his leadership, a team of client solutions engineers works closely with Exterro’s client success team to deliver Fusion solutions that address client needs. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Southern California, and received his undergraduate degree in engineering in computer science from P.S.G. College of Technology in Coimbatore, India.
Sarah Centrella, Director, Fusion Cloud
Sarah Centrella brings extensive consulting and management experience in the corporate software industry to her role as Exterro's Director of Fusion Cloud. With a background in high-tech and enterprise workflow software business development for Fortune 500 corporations, she's able to understand and effectively address Exterro's clients' pain points. As part of her day-to-day management responsibilities, she interfaces with global leaders in the legal industry, listens to their needs and brings that knowledge to the solution development table. She also heads up Exterro’s Am Law 200 and small- to mid-size corporation solutions department, helping deliver solutions to companies and firms of all sizes.
Exterro's Advisory Board
Robert L. Carey
Bob Carey has been litigating cases since 1987 and has substantial jury trial and appellate experience. He specializes in employment litigation involving discrimination and wrongful discharge complaints, enforcement of non-competition agreements, and related commercial litigation. Carey is admitted to practice in Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel, and the Defense Research Institute, and he is active on committees with state and local bar associations.
Carey received his B.A. in economics from Harvard University and his J.D. from Willamette University College of Law.
William A. Drew
Bill Drew is a litigation shareholder with Elliott, Ostrander & Preston, P.C., in Portland, Oregon. Drew specializes in practical problem solving, dispute resolution, complex negotiations, trial work, and appellate advocacy, with a focus on business, real estate, and intellectual property disputes. As a former judicial clerk to the Honorable W. Michael Gillette of the Oregon Supreme Court, Drew is familiar with the internal processes of appellate courts and persuasion.
Drew graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he taught both negotiation skills for the Harvard Negotiation Project and advocacy skills for the Harvard Board of Student Advisors.
Joseph A. Tripi
Joseph Tripi's practice concentrates on commercial litigation, construction litigation and creditors' rights. Before joining Grenley, Rotenberg, Evans, Bragg & Bodie, P.C., Tripi was with Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt for five years, representing clients in a variety of construction defect litigation.
Joe Tripi holds a J.D. from University of Oregon School of Law, and is a member of the Multnomah County Bar Association, OSB Debtor-Creditor Section; OSB Litigation Section; and OSB Construction Law Section. He is a member of the City Club of Portland, Associated General Contractors ("AGC"), American Institute of Architects "AIA"), American Builders & Contractors ("ABC"), and Home Builders Association ("HBA"). He is involved with AGC Young Contractors Forum, AGC Legislative Committee and AGC Associates Counsel.
Exterro is a privately held company that develops solutions for the legal industry to manage and control virtually every area of litigation support and discovery.
Exterro is currently funded by prominent angel investors in the United States.
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"I founded Exterro with a commitment to providing easy-to-use, cross-platform business and technology solutions. Since then, our flagship solution, Fusion, has become the recognized leader for end-to-end legal process management. Fusion is a flexible, scalable open architecture system built on a single, extensible workflow platform that serves as the strategic entry point for all legal governance, risk and compliance management processes."
- Bobby Balachandran,
President & CEO of Exterro, Inc.
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