Our Team
Directors & Treasurer

Executive Director
John Tredennick
John Tredennick spent the first twenty years of his professional life as a trial lawyer and partner at a national law firm. He then founded Catalyst Repository, a a leading e-discovery and AI software provider where he served as CEO and Board Chair for the next twenty years (the company was recently sold to OpenText). Not ready to retire at this young age, Tredennick formed the Merlin Legal Open Source Foundation, where he serves as Chair and Executive Director until a new generation steps in to carry on the mission. Tredennick also runs Merlin Digital Magic, a cloud software development company that helps corporations and law firms manage legal and regulatory compliance.
Tredennick is a prolific speaker and writer. Over the past thirty years, he has written eight books and countless articles on legal technology topics, including “TAR for Smart People” (3rd Ed.), “The Legal Hold Handbook (for Smart People)” two ABA bestsellers “Winning with Computers” (Vols. One and Two), “How to Prepare For, Take and Use a Deposition at Trial (James Publishing), and several editions of “The Lawyer’s Guide to Spreadsheets.” John’s is a past Chair of the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section, was Editor in Chief of its flagship magazine and is currently active with the Sedona Conference, acting as co-drafting team leader for the new Sedona Guidelines on Legal Hold and as a member of the research team for the International Legal Hold Guidelines.
Phone:303-810-1918

CFO and Treasurer
Lewis Visscher
Lewis Visscher has over 30 years of diversified business advisory, management, operational, financial and accounting experience. Lew was recently the CFO at Catalyst Repository Systems which was acquired by Open Text in early 2019. Prior to Catalyst Lew was CFO for various other early stage technology businesses providing financial leadership through many operational aspects, contract negotiations and mergers and acquisition strategies.
Before working for these private companies, Lew was with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he worked with many private and public companies on equity offerings, start-ups, acquisitions, divestitures and multinational, multi-location operations.
Lew is most famously known in the Colorado community for Lew’s List (www.lewslist.com), a job resource board for finance and accounting professionals. Lew is also involved in Financial Executives International (FEI) in both Colorado and Arizona and was President of the Colorado chapter in 2015. Lew also the founder and active member of the Colorado chapter of the New Canaan Society, a Christian men’s organization. In 2009, the Denver Business Journal named him CFO of the Year.
Phone:720-635-8560
Advisory Board
We are in the process of forming an Advisory Board consisting of legal and technology leaders from around the world. Please contact us if you are interested in joining the cause.

Robert Ambrogi
Award Winning Reporter, Blogger and Podcaster Rockport MA
Neil Aresty
Founder Lextranet, E-Discovery Platform Built on Open Source Software Boston MA
Craig Ball
Special Master, Law Professor, Forensics Expert, Writer & Speaker New Orleans and Austin
Josh Blandi
CEO / Co-Founder, UniCourt Inc. Tustin CA
Toby Brown
Chief Practice Management Officer Perkins Coie
Shawn Curran
Head of Legal IT Travers Smith, London
Maura Grossman
Research Professor, University of Waterloo Principal, Maura Grossman Law Ontario CA and Buffalo NY
William Hamilton
Legal Skills Professor Fredric G. Levin College of Law Gainesville Florida
Mark Kerzner, JD
President, Elephant Scale LLC, Houston Advisory Board Technical Advisor
Mary Mack
CEO, Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM Portland
Matthew Pennington
Legal Tech Optimist Sheffield UK
Jonathan Pyle
Contract Performance Officer at Philadelphia Legal Assistance Developer of Open Source Document Assembly Program
Adam Ruttenberg
Partner, Cooley LLP, Washington DC Advisory Board Licensing Advisor
Lourdes Slater
Partner, Grais & Ellsworth, NYC Founder Karta Legal
Brian Tang
Law Faculty, University of Hong Kong Executive Director, LITE Lab@HKU