Electronic Discovery Firm Cataphora Strengthens Presence in Key Legal Markets

NEW YORK (PRWEB) August 11, 2005

Cataphora Inc., provider of legal review and analytics services for high-stake cases, today announced the appointments of Shawn Colvard and Jim Koch as Directors, Business Development. Colvard will be based in New York and Koch in Chicago. The appointments are part of an expansion of Cataphora’s presence in important legal markets.

Colvard has more than a decade of experience of strategic enterprise consulting with legal information market leader LexisNexis. His responsibilities included working with AmLaw 100 law firms on knowledge management best practices and collaborative solutions, and managing key national accounts with revenues in excess of $3 billion.

Koch joins Cataphora from Pivotal Corporation, where he was a Financial Services District Sales Manager. He brings almost twenty years of experience of sales and business development for high-tech organizations including such industry leaders as Adobe Systems, Informix Software, and Apple Computer.

“We are delighted to add these talented people to our team,” said Cataphora Vice-President of Sales Jonathan Nystrom. “Jim will be working with our existing client base in the Chicago area, as well as developing new relationships. Shawn comes with great experience of software solutions for legal markets that will be invaluable to our East Coast clients.”

Koch has had a successful career in sales and business development for high technology software solutions. In recent years, he has specialized in the financial services industry. Before joining LexisNexis, Colvard spent more then fifteen years working in the software industry in roles ranging from computer programmer to founder and Chief Information Officer of a company that developed interactive sales kiosks

Cataphora Inc. is the creator of C-Evidence, the electronic evidence review and analysis solution of choice for high-stakes cases. The C-Evidence service gives clients more of the important things up front in their review cycle and more effectively filters out the junk and the other non-responsive data. By contrast with software that merely groups documents on similarity of contents, C Evidence automatically finds the relationships among all the documents and all the people who created, received, or interacted with them.

Cataphora’s C-Evidence Platform is ideally suited to the needs of private law firms, corporate legal departments and investigators with document-intensive matters in such areas as white-collar crime, securities, antitrust and intellectual property.

Cataphora is fast-growing company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information, please visit http://www.cataphora.com. For a presentation or demonstration of the C-Evidence technology, please contact sales AT cataphora.com.

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