Mike Alsup founded Gimmal, a leading ECM and RM solution provider. Previously, Mike worked for Accenture and Booz Allen, and co-founded two Systems Integrators, BSG and Align Solutions. He was a 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in IT Services. He blogs in the AIIM Communities on SharePoint topics.

As a Senior Counsel in Fulbright & Jaworski’s Houston office, Keith Angle assists clients with their e-discovery and information governance needs, particularly record lifecycle issues. Among other things, Keith prepares record retention policies and procedures; record retention schedules; data disposition processes and procedures; litigation hold and record preservation notices; and document review management procedures.

Keith handles or supervises the handling of client training, audit and certification procedures, including technical procedures and quality control guidelines, to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and also consults with clients regarding the proper disposition of company records.

Florinda Baldridge is the Global Director of Practice Support in the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Fulbright (and its Practice Support organization) is one of the earliest adopters of predictive coding technology. In addition to the technology component of predictive coding, Florinda spearheaded the development of processes, benchmarks, and workflows that effectively leverage these new tools to defensibly reduce document review costs.

Most recently, Florinda leads the Firm’s Litigation Efficiencies and Innovations program which is focused on process improvement, knowledge management, budgeting and legal project management.

Susan Cisco, Ph.D., CRM, FAI, is a Director in Gimmal Group’s Enterprise Content Management services organization. Susan brings more than 30 years of experience in the records and information management field as a practitioner, educator, and consultant. She has successfully consulted with companies in multiple industries, including oil and gas, hospitality, healthcare, insurance, utilities, and government. Susan holds an M.L.S and Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from The University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of ARMA International, and in 2000 was named as one of ARMA’s Company of Fellow award winners.

David Culbertson is a Certified Secure Destruction Specialist (CSDS) and is a Document Destruction industry expert serving the industry for over 27 years. He previously served 16 years as President & CEO of Texas Shredding Company, and 3 years as a leading industry consultant. He is currently serving as the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer for AmeriTex, a data security company based in Houston, Texas providing records storage, data & product shredding as well as hard drive destruction services. David has written numerous articles for various national publications and is a very experienced public speaker presenting data destruction topics on the local and national level to various organizations including but not limited to:

David served on the National Association for Information Destruction’s board of directors for 9 years including 2 years as the organization’s President from 2000-2002. This time period was during the infamous Enron & Arthur Anderson fraud scandals. David’s company (Texas Shredding) at the time was the primary shredding vendor for Enron and as NAID President was interviewed by many international news organizations. It was also during this time that David was instrumental in helping pass the NAID Certification program which is now regarded as the highest security standard in the industry. If all of this were not enough, he also holds the highest award given to individuals in the industry and is one of only two individuals to have ever received the "Lifetime Honorary Member of NAID” award.

Currently, David still holds two leadership positions within the industry:

The NAID Certification Rules Committee: Charged with all new rule making endeavors to the NAID Certification program whereby members in good standing can have their operations continually audited and certified by NAID in all areas of data destruction security.

Brian Grear is the Lead ECM Analyst in the Records and Information Management (RIM) department at Apache Corporation. Responsibilities include assisting in developing, implementing, administering, maintaining, and supporting the RIM Program at Apache including policies and procedures, classification schemes, taxonomies, records retention and disposition, personnel training, onsite and offsite storage, imaging, business analysis and technical research to develop effective RIM strategies, and recommending and providing high-quality, optimal solutions for RIM and ECM needs throughout the company including areas of scanning, OCR, email management, automated classification, retention, e discovery, workflow, integration tools, and document management repositories. Prior to joining the RIM department Brian was a Software Engineer for over 20 years in a variety of responsibilities at several companies including Apache.

Rob Hamilton currently serves as Vice President and General Manager of Document Management Services (DMS) for Recall North America. Prior to transitioning into this role in August 2011, Rob was living in Asia and had dual roles. He was the General Manager for Recall Hong Kong and was the Regional Sales & Marketing Director for Asia.

Rob joined the Brambles family of companies in 1998, when he accepted a role in Customer Service for CHEP, Recall’s sister company. While at CHEP Rob was promoted into a variety of responsibilities in Customer Service, Operations and Sales over a 10 year period. In January 2009, Rob transitioned into the role of Global Director of Contract Compliance for Recall.

Tad Howington has nearly 30 years of experience in various aspects of records and information management. He has managed and directed enterprise-wide records and information management programs at LCRA and ERCOT in Austin, Tarrant County in Fort Worth, and CenterPoint Energy in Houston. He currently is the Senior Records Manager at Copano Energy.

Tad received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History/English from the University of New Mexico. He also holds a Master of Arts (MA) in History/Archival Administration from the University of Texas and a Master of Library and Information Sciences (MLS) from the University of North Texas. He is a Certified Records Manager.

A member of ARMA for 25+ years, Tad has served in numerous leadership positions on the Local, Regional and International levels. Highlights of his local ARMA involvement include two terms as President of the Fort Worth Chapter and seven years on the Austin Chapter Board of Directors. He also served on the ARMA Houston Board, most recently as Executive Vice President. In addition, Tad is on the Board of Trustees of the Alice L Haltom Educational Fund.

Throughout his ARMA experience Tad has had the opportunity to serve on various International Committees, including Standards and Development, Membership, Strategic Planning and Finance. He served three years as the Southwest Region’s Director, representing the region on ARMA International’s Board of Directors. From 1999-2000, Tad served with distinction as President of ARMA International.

Tad received ARMA International’s Distinguished Service Award in 2001 and was inducted into ARMA’s Company of Fellows in 2002 for his continued service to both the Association and to the profession of records and information management.

Tad has taught records and information management courses at Dallas County Community College, Austin Community College and in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas. He has also served as an Adjunct Instructor of Records Management in the Graduate School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition he has conducted over 90 seminars and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico and New Zealand.

John Isaza, Esq. & FAI is a California-based attorney and partner of Rimon PC, where he heads the an international records and information governance (RIG). Mr. Isaza is widely recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on information governance, electronic discovery, the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and other RIG issues. Mr. Isaza has developed information governance and records retention programs for some of the most highly regulated Fortune 100 companies, including related regulatory research opinions.

Prior to forming a RIG practice, Mr. Isaza served as in-house General Counsel to a publicly traded medical device manufacturer, now owned by Abbott Laboratories. Mr. Isaza also has over a decade of experience as a trial lawyer specializing in business, environmental contamination, products liability and construction defects.

Laura Moralesis the founder of Energize Your Outlook, an appropriate name for her business, as she is blessed to have a lot of energy and always seems to have a positive outlook on life. She is often referred to as "lighting up a room with her presence and bringing new life to an otherwise dull environment”.

Laura is passionate about people and about helping others. She believes that there are no coincidences in life. Indeed, it was a life-changing childhood experience in the sixth grade at Sharp Elementary in Brownsville, Texas that had a monumental impact on her life’s purpose to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

Laura spent 22 successful years working for AT&T and Sprint in a variety of positions including retention and high growth sales management, support management, marketing and international business development. In 2005, Laura decided to strike out on her own. When deciding on exactly what she wanted to do, she felt strongly that her business needed to be "people centric” because it was through people and relationships that she had built over the years that fueled the energy and success she experienced in her telecom career. Hence, Energize Your Outlook was established. The business initially focused primarily on coaching individuals and teams for leadership and professional development, and has since evolved into more motivational speaking and training in the area of networking and interpersonal communication skills. She loves what she does!

Not only does she bring a wealth of knowledge and understanding to her clients, she provides a level of professionalism and enthusiasm that is rarely seen. From a personal side, Laura has a soft spot in her heart for motivating young, Hispanic girls to stay in school and get a college education. She credits her mother, aunts and grandmother for encouraging her to do well in school and obtain a college degree. It would be the ticket to a better life, and it certainly has provided many, many opportunities for her that she might nototherwise have had.

Penny Quirk has over 30 years experience in Records & Information Management, Enterprise Information Management. She has successfully implemented and deployed programs for document imaging, content management, physical and electronic records, vital records, historical records, litigation support, and business process audits. Specializing in Energy (oil & gas, and service companies), Manufacturing, Automotive, and Telecommunication industries

Penny has expanded her expertise to include Information Technology and SharePoint arena as well as Corporate Compliance components toward the development of a comprehensive Enterprise Information Management Program. In order to incorporate all of these various components, Penny uses a combination of processes and workflow methodologies, customized toward the client's need and industry. These methods include organizational change management, business process management, project and program management to ensure successful adopters and continuous improvement.

Penny is a recognized presenter, trainer and author of numerous presentations and published articles. She holds a BA in Business Management, MBA in Business Administration; Minor in Psychology; along with certifications for ERM^M, and CompTIA Security+. A longtime member of ARMA International, Penny has held office at the international and chapter levels. Other professional organization membership includes ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), PMI and AIIM. Currently employed with Robbins-Gioia, LLC as the Director of the EIM Practice group, where she is responsible for EIM services for Commercial and Government entities.

Donna Rose is the Global Records and Information Manager responsible for Enterprise Records Management (ERM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategies and programs for Apache Corporation. Her areas of expertise include RIM strategies, records retention, technical records program development, records storage operations, business process analysis and business process management (BPM).

Donna has a BA from SE Oklahoma State. She has presented various RIM topics at ARMA Houston conference and Chapter meetings; ARMA Internationals conferences and web-seminars and served on ARMA’s standing committees. Donna has also presented topics at various DOE RIM, Digital Plant; Geotechnical Conferences.

Joe Shepley is a strategy consulting professional living and working in Chicago. In his current position as Vice President and Practice Leader at Doculabs he focuses on helping organizations improve how they manage information using technology and processes.

Nancy Sparrow is recently-named RMO of Fort Bend County, Texas, and long-ago-designated RMO of her own life. She’s more organized and diligent in the first role.