Matthew Blake:
CLASS OF 1988
Agoura High SchoolClass of 1988
Agoura hills, CA
Columbia University - BusinessClass of 2000
New york, NY
Indian Hills High SchoolClass of 1988
Calabasas, CA
Lindero Canyon Middle SchoolClass of 1984
Agoura hills, CA
Matthew's Story
Life
My biggest accomplishment to date (July 11, 2006) is being married 14 years to Rachel and raising our 2 kids, Lindsey 14, and Braden 12. We currently reside just outside Houston Texas and just finished building our new home.
Most of you may remember me as a rocker that hung with the wild crowd - those days have changed, oh how time changes you.
Since high school I started and sold several businesses including a $45M construction company, $15M staffing services company, and a $3M ATM processing company. I most recently sold my litigation technology company (Franklin Data) to my largest competitor (OnSite E-Discovery) for an undisclosed amount and I now lead their global services to large law firms and corporations including DaimlerChrysler, Intel, Microsoft, and Georgia Pacific to name a few. I just completed a large SEC and Department of Justice investigation of DaimlerChrysler and toured the world 6 times - it was quite a ride in a short 6 months.
Workplace
BIO/SUMMARY
Mr. Blake is an information technology specialist with extensive experience in developing litigation technology solutions. He has concentrated primarily in litigation consulting with an emphasis on electronic discovery and computer forensics. Mr. Blake has performed extensive testing and evaluation of emerging, litigation solution focused, and state of the art technologies from Silicon Valley and Europe. He brings significant skills in legal system installation and management, software and graphical user interface development, and application performance tuning. Mr. Blake has lead forensic teams in 35+ countries including Asia, Germany, South America, Africa, Europe, Russia, and the Middle East collecting laptop, desktop, and server data on over 1000 custodians and 100 corporate entities.
Mr. Blake has served the financial services, transportation, high technology, and health sciences industries, in addition to the telecommunications and energy industries. He has helped several Fortune 100 companies involved in litigation with the collection, preservation, analysis, production, hosting, and review of electronic data.
At Franklin Data, Mr. Blake works with clients to solve electronic discovery complexities. He helps mitigate their risk and costs associated as they relate to electronic discovery preparedness, data collection, preservation, processing, hosting, and review. Mr. Blake also works with clients on information and data protection strategies for high-p...Expand for more
rofile matters and large corporate organizations.
EDUCATION
Mr. Blake attended Columbia University in New York, NY
SELECT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Mr. Blake most recently was the electronic discovery lead expert on the largest electronic discovery case to hit in 2005/2006. This project involved cooperation between a top 5 automotive manufacturer (the client), the clients outside counsel, the Securities Exchange Commission and US Department of Justice stemmed from a formal investigation focused on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). During this project Mr. Blake lead a group of forensic engineers across the globe to collect data, as well as conduct on-going preservation. In the European headquarters, Mr. Blake mobilized an onsite electronic discovery production environment to ensure data and information protection while fully processing hundreds of gigabytes of data per month. Mr. Blake lead the preservation of close to 1 Petabyte (1024 terabytes) of data and the successful processing of over two Terabytes. Through successful and strategic filtering methodologies reviewable data produced less than 10% hits for first-level review. To complicate the solution the client is one of the largest global users of Lotus Notes.
SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS / MEDIA INTERVIEWS
 Corporate E-Discovery Forum, Panelist, Chicago, IL - October 2006
 PC Today, Digital Globetrotting, Volume 4 Issue 9  September 2006
 Law.com ÂDoes your EDD Provider make House CallsÂ, August 2006
 Corporate E- Discovery Forum, Panelist, International Forensics, New York, NY - August 2006
 Corporate E-Discovery Forum, Featured Speaker, International Data Collections, Houston, TX - June 2006
 KWHY TV, Los Angeles - Emerging ATM Market  Interview with Skip Linderman, 30 minute Interview
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
 Electronic Evidence in Litigation
Aspen Publishers, New York, Release date TBD
 Preparing for Life Under the new FRCP, The Corporate Counsel Checklist, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, December 2006
 Mobile e-Discovery can keep Secrets Secret, Law Journal Newsletters (LJN) eDiscovery Law & Strategy, December 2006
 Electronic Discovery Workflow: Processes & Perspectives, E-Discovery Advisor, October 2006
 Law in Business  Language Barriers
Legal IT April 2006, London Business April 2006, Catephora April 2006, DiscoveryResources.org April 2006
 Electronic Discovery  A New Age Dawns on the Old World, Law Solutions February 2006
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