Marc Fink, Esq.
Practice Director
Marc Fink manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Before joining H5, Mr. Fink was a vice president and divisional compliance advisor with Merrill Lynch, serving as the primary compliance resource for over 90 branch offices. Prior to that he worked at Schwartz Nardello, LLP, where he served as a senior investigative counsel of the Citigroup monitorship team in conjunction with the Global Research Settlement Agreement. Mr. Fink co-authored the official monitorship report, which was submitted to the SEC, NYSE and the NASD. Previously, Mr. Fink served as an associate director in the Legal Department of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Before that, he was a trial counsel with the New York Stock Exchange Division of Enforcement after working as a senior associate at Bower & Gardner, a product liability and medical malpractice defense firm. Mr. Fink began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in New York County. He earned his B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law. [contact]
Michael Morneault, Esq.
Practice Director
Michael Morneault manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Morneault was vice president and chief investment officer of Innovation Works, a seed stage venture capital fund. Previously, he was at McKesson Corporation, where he first served as general counsel and then as vice president of strategy and business development for the Fortune 20 company’s healthcare automation businesses. Before joining McKesson, he practiced law in the Business and Finance Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Mr. Morneault also served with distinction in the Army’s 3rd U.S. Infantry (the “Old Guard”) in Washington, D.C. Mr. Morneault is a distinguished graduate of Southern Vermont College and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School, where he graduated cum laude. [contact]
Steve Nickerson
Managing Director
Steve Nickerson manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Before coming to H5, Mr. Nickerson served as a national vice president of sales consulting for the Automation Technology Division of McKesson Corporation. He has over 20 years’ experience in senior management, business development, national accounts, and customer support in the technology and healthcare industries. Mr. Nickerson holds a B.A. in finance and economics from Washington State University. [contact]
Michael Rubenstein, Esq.
Senior Practice Director
As senior practice director, Michael Rubenstein has managed engagements involving the review and analysis of over 100 million pages of text for clients in the financial services, healthcare, energy, and technology sectors. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Rubenstein served as managing partner of Document Technologies, Inc., a national litigation services firm, where he oversaw regional operations including multiple outsourced document and data production facilities. A former practicing attorney at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, he has also held a variety of client development and marketing positions in emerging legal technology firms, including CaseCentral, Inc., a provider of legal data repository and software application services. Mr. Rubenstein is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. [contact]
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Dan Savitt, Esq.
Practice Director
Dan Savitt manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Savitt served as a senior executive with Pangea3, a leading offshore legal services firm based in New York and India, where he counseled clients on how to obtain best value from their litigation budgets while complying with their professional and business responsibilities. He was responsible for launching offshore litigation- and compliance-related services, particularly document reviews for a range of legal matters, including antitrust, internal and government investigations, unfair trade practices, and consumer products liability class actions. Mr. Savitt also served as the strategic contact point for in-house and outside counsel. Previously, Mr. Savitt was an associate with the New York offices of Arent Fox PLLC and Thelen Reid & Priest, where he specialized in complex commercial litigation. Mr. Savitt is a graduate of Penn State University and Cornell Law School. [contact]
Philip Strauss , Esq.
Practice Director
Phil Strauss manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Before joining H5, he was vice president and general counsel at Actuate Corporation, Brio Software, and MarketTools, Inc., a market-research technology company. Mr. Strauss also held a senior counsel position supporting the Intelligent Document Business Unit at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Before going in-house, Mr. Strauss was in private practice as a corporate associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York and as a litigation associate at Jones Day in Chicago and served a judicial clerkship with the Supreme Court of Alaska. He has also been active locally and nationally in the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and its San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where he served two terms as chapter president and founded the chapter’s Privacy Committee and the national New-to-In-House Committee and Corporate Counsel University training program. Mr. Strauss holds a B.A. in international relations from Emory University, a J.D. from Duke University, and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where he is an adjunct instructor teaching business law. [contact]
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Kelly Young, Esq.
Practice Director
Kelly
Young manages new business development with leading national corporations and law firms. Prior to joining H5, Mr. Young served as director of practice management for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he was responsible for strategic planning for the firm's 13 practice areas, including litigation, labor & employment, and intellectual property. He was also responsible for financial analysis and developed management tools for partners charged with leading the firm's business units. Before joining Akin Gump, Mr. Young served as vice president for foundations at Koch Industries, the largest privately held company in the United States, where he managed daily operations of the Koch family foundations. He began his professional career at KPMG analyzing mortgage-backed securities and later served as assistant dean of George Mason University School of Law. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his J.D. and M.B.A. from Stanford University. [contact]