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 record-keeping 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.
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.
Charmaine Brooks, CRM, is a principal with IMERGE Consulting, Inc., and has more than 25 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 the corporate records manager for Land O'Lakes, Inc. 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, cloud computing, 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 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 co-developer of a capability maturity model for long-term digital preservation that incorporates the specifications of ISO 15489, ISO 14721, ISO 18492, and ISO 16363.
Patricia Franks, Ph.D., is a certified records manager 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.
Randolph Kahn, Esq., is the founder of Kahn Consulting, one the premier information governance advisory firms. The Kahn Consulting team has provided consulting services to major global organizations, including advising U.S. 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 J.D. degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and he has taught at George Washington University.
Barry Murphy is 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 B.S. from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He is an active member of both AIIM and ARMA.