Lori J. Ashley is a Wisconsin-based consultant, writer, and educator dedicated to helping clients improve the performance of their record and information management practices and controls. An experienced business strategist and organizational development specialist, she has codeveloped four continuous improvement methodologies aimed at jump-starting collaboration among stakeholders who share accountability for effective and efficient life cycle management of valued records and information assets.

Barbara Blackburn, CRM, is an electronic records management consultant who assists organizations in defining, researching, selecting, and implementing cost-effective solutions. She assists clients in preparing for technology deployment by providing strategic planning and developing recordkeeping programs and taxonomies. Ms. Blackburn has expert taxonomy design skills and has taught AIIM's Electronic Records Management and Electronic Content Management certification classroom courses.

Baird Brueseke, CIP, IGP, is an IG consultant and trainer with a focus on cybersecurity issues, a cofounder of Information Governance World magazine. He is a cybersecurity policy and controls expert, with special expertise in vulnerability assessments and gap analysis. With over 30 years’ experience in the technology field, Mr. Brueseke is coauthor of a patent on cloud-based instruction, and a frequent speaker and instructor on cybersecurity topics. He is a cofounder and a board member of the Cyber-Security Institute of San Diego and worked on developing the NIST cybersecurity framework. He also was the cofounder of Wheb systems, which developed and marketed the first Windows-based electronic forms processing system that could read handwriting. Wheb, through growth and acquisitions, became Captiva, a company with over $400 million in revenues. Mr. Brueseke is active in AIIM International and has served as the San Diego chapter president.

Barclay T. Blair is an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, software and hardware vendors, and government institutions and is an author, speaker, and internationally recognized authority on information governance. He has led several high-profile consulting engagements at the world's leading institutions to help them globally transform the way they manage information. Mr. Blair is the president and founder of ViaLumina and Executive Director and co-founder of the IG Initiative.

Charmaine Brooks, CRM, is a principal with IMERGE Consulting, Inc., and has over 35 years of experience in records and information management and content management. Ms. Brooks is a certified trainer and has taught AIIM classroom courses on ERM and provided many workshops for ARMA. Formerly a records manager for a leading worldwide provider of semiconductor memory solutions and a manager in a records management software development company, today Ms. Brooks provides clients, small and large, public and private, with guidance in developing records management and information governance programs.

Monica Crocker, CRM, PMP, CIP, is a corporate records manager for Wells Fargo. Ms. Crocker has also been an information management consultant for 20 years, defining content and records management best practices for organizations across the United States. Her expertise includes SharePoint governance, enterprise strategies for content management, records management, electronic discovery, taxonomy design, project management, and business process redesign. Ms. Crocker is a recipient of AIIM's Distinguished Service Award.

Charles M. Dollar, now retired, is an internationally recognized archival educator, consultant, and author who draws on more than three decades of knowledge and experience in working with public and private sector organizations to optimize the use of information technologies to satisfy legal, regulatory, business, and cultural memory recordkeeping requirements for digital preservation. He is codeveloper of a capability maturity model for long-term digital preservation that incorporates the specifications of ISO 15489, ISO 14721, ISO 18492, and ISO 16363.

Mark Driskill is a lifelong California resident. He holds a BA in American history and a Master's in archives and records management from San José State University. His professional interests include the philosophy of information management, corporate archives, and the social aspects surrounding our digital footprints. Driskill currently works as a freelance writer/editor and contributing editor to IG World magazine.

Patricia Franks, PhD, CA, CRM, IGP, FAI, is a certified records manager and information governance professional and the coordinator for the Master of Archives and Records Administration degree program in the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University. She served as the team lead for both the ANSI/ARMA standard released in January of 2011, Implications of Web-based Collaborative Technologies in Records Management, and the 2012 technical report, Using Social Media in Organizations. Her latest publication, Records and Information Management (ALA Neal-Schuman, 2013) offers insight into a range of topics affecting records and information management professionals.

Darra Hoffman, J.D., M.S.L.S., is completing her PhD at University of British Columbia, School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, where she is a research assistant with Interpares Trust and Blockchain at UBC. Her research focuses on the intersection between records, technology, and human rights, with a particular emphasis on blockchain. Her research is supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship and a Killam Doctoral Scholarship.

Randolph Kahn, Esq., is the founder of Kahn Consulting, one of the premier information governance advisory firms. The Kahn Consulting team has provided consulting services to major global organizations including, advising the US and foreign governments, courts systems, and major multinational corporations on a wide variety of information issues, including e-communications strategies, social media policy, records management programs implementation, and litigation response processes. Mr. Kahn is a highly sought-after speaker and a two-time recipient of the Britt Literary Award. He has authored dozens of published works, including Chucking Daisies, his new book on defensible disposition; Email Rules; Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance; Information Nation Warrior; and Privacy Nation. He is a cofounder of the Council for Information Auto-Classification and has been expert witness and an advocate in many industry organizations. Mr. Kahn is an attorney who attained his JD degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Kahn has taught at George Washington University.

Doug Laney, the “Father of Infonomics,” is a solutions-focused senior executive and board member with more than 35 years of success across the nonprofit, telecommunications, retail, insurance, higher education, IT, and IT services industries. Leveraging extensive experience in data strategy and innovation, he is a valuable advisor for an organization seeking guidance in monetizing data. His broad areas of expertise include business analysis, startup leadership, data management, and business intelligence. He is currently Principal Data Strategist with Caserta, a data warehousing and analytics consulting firm out of New York. Throughout his executive career, Doug has held leadership positions with Gartner, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the GIES College of Business, Forbes, and Deloitte Consulting.

Barry Murphy is Head of Marketing, AWS Customer Enablement at Amazon Web Services, and Principal Consultant of Murphy Insights. He has performed product marketing for a variety of technology provider clients. He has served as Product & Content Marketing Manager at Mirakl, and Head of Product Marketing & Alliances at X1. Mr. Murphy was a cofounder of eDJ Group, Inc., and a thought leader in information governance, e-discovery, records management, and content archiving. Previously, he was director of product marketing at Mimosa Systems, a leading content archiving and e-discovery software provider. He joined Mimosa after a highly successful stint as principal analyst for e-discovery, records management, and content archiving at Forrester Research. Mr. Murphy received a BS from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He is an active member of both AIIM and ARMA.

Andrew Ysasi is an executive in the information services and storage industries. Since 2009, Mr. Ysassi's leadership at Kent Record Management led to a 100% increase in revenue and increasing the valuation of the business by 15 times. He was able to increase profitability, cash flow, and strengthen the balance sheet by streamlining operations to client needs, launching new services, and by building an industry-recognized sales and marketing strategy. To improve chances of success, he became a subject matter expert on leadership, information governance, records management, business development, information privacy, information security, project management, and sales management. Mr. Ysasi has received over 40 written recommendations from professional colleagues, advanced certifications, a Master of Science in Administration degree, is a sought-after speaker, and is respected by his colleagues and clients across the United States. Recently, Ysasi has conducted some short, content-rich, and entertaining Pecha-Kucha and Ignite presentations at national conferences.

In addition to his role as Executive Director at Kent Records, he is a former adjunct professor at Davenport University and taught global project management and the technology capstone courses. He started IG GURU®, which is an Information Governance News and Community website. He is the founder of the career coaching company Admovio®, where his resume review work and career advice is published on CIO.com. He founded myPACT to enable individuals to showcase themselves to employers and has a patent pending for the technology. He has served as a volunteer test writer on the Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM) Exam Development Committee (EDC) since 2012, and he is the Regent for the EDC for the 2017-2019 term. Andrew was also elected to the PRISM International Board of Directors through 2019. Further, he has served on local ARMA boards throughout his career, was Western Michigan ARMA's chapter member of the year in 2013, and was an author on the second edition of the ARMA RIM Core Competencies. Andrew is a Certified Records Manager (CRM), a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and was part of the inaugural group to achieve the Information Governance Professional (IGP) certification. Andrew also holds various certifications from Microsoft and CompTIA.