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Brian Golbère
Brian Golbère is a co-founder and Principal at OrcaTec LLC. Before starting OrcaTec, Brian was an Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and co-founder of DolphinSearch. At DolphinSearch, Brian engineered DolphinSearch's patented concept search and was the primary architect for their pioneering electronic discovery review application - the industry's first to offer concept search, native document review and a review management console. Brian also architected and deployed a state of the art data center to host DolphinSearch's ASP products which brought together a high-availability blade architecture, SAN fabric and redundant data network. He was the product manager for DolphinSearch eDiscovery and other tools.
Prior to DolphinSearch, Brian was a Senior Technical Analyst for NeoMedia Technologies, Inc., an innovator and international leader in print-to-internet and other security and e-authentication technologies. Before that, he was Chief Technology Officer, co-founder and principal developer for Ernestine Technology, LLC (which eventually became part of NeoMedia), a privately held organization that developed technology linking bar code technology to the Internet. Prior to his involvement with Ernestine Technology, Brian was co-founder and Vice President for Research and Development, at Dancing Bear Enterprises, Inc. Dancing Bear provided custom programming, hardware, and services for NeXT computers as well as other UNIX based systems. Before founding Dancing Bear, Brian was Manager of Operations and Development for Servare International, Inc., Laguna Hills, Calif., which provided service bureau management services and software to the banking industry. At Servare he developed an advanced service management system (ServicDesk) for both internal and commercial use. Brian has his B.A. degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Herbert L. Roitblat, Ph.D
Dr.Herb Roitblat is a co-founder and Principal at OrcaTec LLC. Before starting Orcatec, Herb was Executive Vice President, Chief Scientist, and co-founder of DolphinSearch. He is the primary inventor of the core DolphinSearch technology (patent No. 6,189,002). His duties at DolphinSearch included new product development, business development, and marketing as well as internal and external consulting on the processes of eDiscovery and related information management and data mining issues. Herb led the design of the DolphinSearch review tools, DIAD, and ComplianSeek, and was part of the team that brought concept searching and native file review to the eDiscovery industry. He was also responsible for DolphinSearch’s Federal Market efforts.
Herb is a recognized expert in cognitive science, information management, data mining, statistics, and eDiscovery processes. He is the author of numerous papers on dolphin biosonar and neural network models of the dolphin sensory system. More recently he has been writing about data mining and how technology can ease the burden of eDiscovery. Herb was an award-winning Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii from 1985 until 2002. He taught courses in cognitive science and research methods. He has a B.A. degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California-Berkeley. He served as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University until he joined the faculty at the University of Hawaii. Herb is a Past President of the Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology of the American Psychological Association and Past President of the International Society for Adaptive Behavior. In 2002, he received the Clifford T. Morgan award for distinguished contributions to behavioral neuroscience and comparative psychology. Herb is a member of the Sedona Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production.