Meet the team behind DataOps Consulting

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Jason Feinsmith

Managing Director and Co-Founder
As a Silicon Valley technology executive, Jason has grown 3 businesses to #1 in their global industries and led 1 software startup to exit. Through his journey, Jason has gained an extremely unusual depth of legal experience. He also codes AI applications, python and SQL. He combines his expertise to help law firms safely and significantly grow their competitive advantage and profits.‍
End-to-End Analytics - Principal Director
  • Boutique AI & Analytics consultancy acquired by Accenture
  • Led applied AI & data projects at scale for Google’s data centers
Oracle - Vice President, Demos Division
  • Led world’s largest enterprise software demos business
  • Grew KPIs 6-fold in 6 years with a 250-person global organization
Accomplice Software - Co-founder & CEO
  • Won 40K customers prior to sale of innovative project mgmt software co.
Silicon Storage Technology - Director, Product & Business Execution
  • Led main business with full P&L responsibility. Grew revenue 80% to $500M, margin -22% to +18%, to be world’s #1 unit flash memory supplier
Stanford - MBA and MS Computer Science
Cornell - BS Electrical Engineering
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Kerry Mills

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Kerry is an AI data scientist with extensive experience as a solution architect, manager, and app developer. He is an expert in AI, python, SQL, statistical &financial modeling, and has designed dozens of GenAI applications for a wide range of clients and industries. Hailing from a family of lawyers, he is also well versed in the practical realities of work in the field of law. Kerry’s experiences have included Amazon, Microsoft, Nordstrom and Freddie Mac in roles ranging from Consultant to Senior Data Scientist.‍
Selected Project Experiences
  • Designed and built novel GenAI apps for insurance claim adjudication, with1000x performance over existing systems with similar accuracy
  • Delivered AI models to predict lead time for a leading cloud serviceprovider, resulting in $9 billion of reduced inventory costs
  • Developed 4 RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) LLM systems
  • Created user attribution models resulting in high sales growth at Nordstrom
  • Developed risk models to liquidate non-performing loans, returning FreddieMac to profitability and generating over $1B in revenue
American University - BS, MS Math
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Marlene Dehart

CyberSecurity Expert
Marlene Dehart is a seasoned cybersecurity executive and twenty-year veteran ofthe U.S. Air Force Reserves (retired, Space and Cyber Intelligence missions). Hertwo decades of expertise spans secure product development, cloud operations,governance, risk, and compliance. She leverages this proven leadership to helporganizations and industry influencers navigate the complexities of digitaltransformation and emerging technologies, ensuring the delivery of secure andtrusted services across the Enterprise, Cloud, Critical Infrastructure (OperationsTechnology), and Web3 environments.
Southern Bancorp - Head of Information Security
Colorado Secretary of State - Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Zions Bancorp - Senior Vice President | Director, Enterprise Information Security
Visa - Chief Security Architect
Oracle - Senior Director, Product IT Security

FBI CISO
(Chief Information Security Officer) Academy - Alumna
University of Nicosia - MSc Blockchain and Digital Currency
Certified Information Systems Security (CISSP) since 2002
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Bradford Newman

Advisor
Eversheds Sutherland - Partner
  • Head of Complex Technology Disputes
  • Co-Chair of AI Subcommittee of the ABA
  • Teaches AI Continuing Legal Education Courses to judges and practitioners
  • Testified as AI expert - US Senate (2023)
  • Proposed federal AI legislation turned into a House Draft Discussion Bill (2018)
  • Recognized by Daily Journal as Top 20 AI Attorney in California
Baker & McKenzie - Partner
  • Chair of Trade Secret and AI Practices
Paul Hastings - Partner, Employment Law
  • Chair Employment Litigation Subcommittee of the ABA 
UC College of the Law (Hastings) - JD
University of Pennsylvania - BA
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Adam Tachner

Advisor
Groq – Chief Legal Officer, VP Corp Dev
Google Access – General Counsel (GC) & VP Corp Dev
InvenSense – GC & VP Corp Dev
Qualcomm Atheros – GC & VP
Atheros Communications – GC & VP
ReedSmith – Sr. IP Associate
Onsale, Inc. – Outside Patent Counsel

University of Oregon
- JD
UC Berkeley -BA & MBA
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Rich Cohen

Advisor
R360 Global – Chief Legal Officer
Protiviti – Managing Director (MD) & Fractional General Counsel (GC)
Qualmet Legal – President and GC
RenewData – President (e-discovery, legal data)
GCG  – SVP (Legal Solutions)
Owens Corning / Integrex – President & COO
Lexis Nexis – Senior Director, Corp. Legal
Ohio Power – General Counsel

University of Akron
- JD
SUNY Buffalo - BS