James Schellhase | Chief Executive Officer
James has a distinguished career as a serial entrepreneur, experienced CEO, and WW Business Executive of a Fortune 50 technology company. He has served on a large diversity of Boards of Directors of public and private companies and served as a General Partner and Venture Partner of venture capital firms Techxas Ventures and Austin Ventures. He began his career in M&A at Deloitte and earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. LinkedIn
Jim Vint | Chief Revenue Officer
Jim is an executive leader in consulting and consistently recognized as an industry expert in investigations and data by Who’s Who for Legal. Jim has built, grown, and led technical consulting practices up to $100M in revenue that deliver risk mitigation solutions and strategic responses to issues in litigation, compliance, and investigations. He has worked with clients across industries and all sizes from start-up through Global 1000 and Am Law 100. He designs and implements solutions that address regulatory requirements, responses to litigation, privacy concerns, and cyber threat readiness. Jim began his career at Arthur Andersen and earned his MBA from Duke University. LinkedIn
John Ritter | Chief Operating Officer
Prior to joining Breakwater, John co-founded Clairvoya. Before Clairvoya, John served as President & COO of DiscoverReady and was an executive at Bank of America, where his global responsibilities included e-discovery operations, cyber forensics, information security incident management and access and identity management operations. Prior to Bank of America, John spent time in the Washington, DC area as an attorney and as a police officer. John graduated magna cum laude with a JD from The Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law and with a BA from The University of Maryland, College Park. He is admitted to practice law in both the District of Columbia and Maryland. He is also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. LinkedIn
Phil Richards | Chief Technology Officer
Before joining Breakwater, Phil co-founded Clairvoya. Before Clairvoya, Phil served as CTO at DiscoverReady, where his responsibilities included managing technology services, the analytics, engineering and development teams and the IT department. Before DiscoverReady, he was an executive at Bank of America and worked in quantitative analytics, eDiscovery, incident response and cyber forensics departments. Phil received MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received ME and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah. Phil is named on 11 patents and 2 provisional patents. LinkedIn
Rebecca Patterson | Managing Director, Consulting
Rebecca is a consulting executive with experience building technical practice areas and delivering solutions to a variety of clients facing complex data challenges in litigation, compliance, and investigations. Rebecca works with senior-level corporate and law firm clients to design and deliver solutions related to data strategy, data analytics, and risk mitigation. She has led, strategically managed, and profitably grown the P&L for analytics and data strategy practices and has incubated application development, data science, and privacy teams. She has also served as Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School. Rebecca earned her JD and Certificate in Tax Law from Loyola University Chicago. LinkedIn
Amer Jaibaji | SVP, Product
Amer has over 20 years of experience across a broad range of technology products and services in diverse industries and market segments and is an expert in information governance and related disciplines. Amer has a proven track record in building innovative software solutions for start-up and established technology companies. He has been a Worldwide Program Director at IBM and the VP, Product Management at StoredIQ. Amer earned his BE, Computer Engineering from Vanderbilt University. LinkedIn
Markus Lorch | VP, Research & Development
Prior to Breakwater, Markus served as Product Architect and Senior Member of the Technical Staff of IBM Deutschland Research and Development GmbH, Germany. He led worldwide development teams in the use of IoT technologies, AI, stream processing and big data analytics to improve workplace safety. Previous positions at IBM included architecting IoT solutions, content management enabling petabyte-scale e-discovery and full-text query solutions. Mr. Lorch has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Security in Distributed Systems, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, and a Dipl. Ing. [FH] Diploma in Computer Engineering University of Applied Sciences Albstadt-Sigmaringen, Germany. He was a Fulbright International Scholar. He has earned six patents ranging from data management to IoT sensors, encryption and security topics, and several IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, plus Honors by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing. LinkedIn
Michael Henry | VP, Services
Michael Henry is an accomplished technology expert with 20+ years of experience leading services and technical sales teams from early software start-ups to enterprise Fortune 500 corporation. He is a versatile subject matter expert leveraging knowledge on analytics, architecture and design, cloud, content management, engagement management, information lifecycle governance, project management, software development, sales, and technology best practices. Michael’s background includes founding a software consulting and SaaS development firm in New York City, leading services and presales organizations for multiple start-ups with successful exits, and serving as a worldwide executive architect at IBM. LinkedIn
Alan Brooks | VP, Marketing
Alan is an experienced marketing executive focusing on fast-growth companies. His expertise in risk mitigation companies includes VP of Marketing positions at DiscoverReady, RenewData, and CaseCentral. Alan has extensive marketing, product marketing, and product management experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Cloud, Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”), Big Data, and enterprise software technology. His diverse experience includes delivery models supported by consulting, professional services, managed services, and digital self-service. LinkedIn
Pamela Gage | VP, People and Culture
Pamela Gage is the VP, People and Culture at Breakwater. She leads the vision for Breakwater Solution’s people strategy and company culture. An accomplished human resources professional, Pamela has over 15 years of experience as a global HR leader with expertise in M&A and Strategic Business Partner programs in various technology companies, including WP Engine, IBM, and StoredIQ. Pamela is an active SHRM member and earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. LinkedIn
